Thursday, May 22, 2008

Facts..

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet

.A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long.

A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The flea can jump up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies can taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Right-handed people live, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people. (Glad to be right handed.)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

^The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

^Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

^Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

^Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

^If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

^Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

^There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

^The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

^The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

^It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

^Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.

^Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

^There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

^Blue and white are the most common school colors.

^On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

^The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph

^There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

^Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

^The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.

^Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!

Only 7% of the population are lefties.

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

The average housefly lives for one month.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

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