Hard to Believe
Hard to Believe信不信由你
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
猫狗和人一样也有左、右撇子之分;
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
大象是唯一一种不会跳的哺乳类动物;
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
美国人的姓名中没有“Q”这个字母;
The most used letter in the English alphabet is “E”, and “Q”is the least used!
在英语字母表中,“E”是用得最多的字母,“Q”则是被用得最少的;
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gatsby", which contains over 50,000 words ―― none of them with the letter E!
作家厄尔尼斯特・文森特・莱特曾经写过一本名叫《加斯比》的小说,小说的5万个单词中没有一个是有“E”这个字母的;
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
在美国,每45秒就有一所房子着火。
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
用蓝色牙刷的人比用红色的人多;
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
人体内的骨头有1/4集中在双脚上;
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
人一生要吃6万磅食物,这相当于6只大象的重量;
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
海豚睡觉睁一眼闭一眼;
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
人打喷嚏时,嘴里的气流速度超过每小时100英里;
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
白宫里的刀、叉、勺子一共有13092件;
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
男人被闪电击中的概率比女人高5倍。
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
驴子眼睛的位置能让它随时看到自己的四条腿;
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
人的牙齿几乎和石头一样硬;
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
在拉斯维加斯,典当自己的假牙是违法的;
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
在美国内布拉斯加州的奥马哈市,在某个教堂里打饱嗝和打喷嚏是违法的;
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
在美国堪萨斯州的纳托马市,向穿着条纹西服的男子扔刀子是非法行为;
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
在冰岛,在任何一座城市里养狗即属违法;
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
在圣路易斯,坐在路缘上喝从酒桶里接下来的啤酒就违反了法律。
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
人刚出生的时候有300块骨头,但成年时却只剩下206块。
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
世界上最早有条形码标记的商品是箭牌香口胶;
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
任何一张干燥的方型纸片都不能被对折超过7次以上;
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
美国纽约的帝国大厦上的砖头超过1000万块;
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
鸡的最长飞行纪录是13秒;
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
猫尿能在黑光灯下发光;
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
古代埃及人的枕头是石头做成的;
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
一个普通人每年要做1460个梦;
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
全球每年有超过一万只鸟因为撞到窗户死亡;
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
绝大部分的唇膏里都含有鱼鳞成分;
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
骆驼有三层眼睑用来防风沙;
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
每年有超过2500名左撇子在使用为“右撇子”设计的产品时死亡;
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
在1796年前,美国有一个富兰克林州,现在这个州叫作田纳西;
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
蟑螂在被砍头之后还能活几个星期,最后死也是饿死;
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
每4个美国人中,就有一个人上过电视;
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
每次你舔邮票的背面时,你就吃下了1/10个卡路里。
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