STRANGE BUT TRUE:
Note, none of these have been actually verified. Some I know to be true, but I can't vouch for all of them.
If you yelled for 8 years,
7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart 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 to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a
wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Humans, dolphins and Bonobo
Chimpanzees are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
On average people fear spiders
more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the
body is the TONGUE.
It's impossible to sneeze with
your eyes open.
You can't kill yourself by
holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat
18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp,
you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Did you know that you are more
likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
Right-handed people live, on
average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked
EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30
minutes.
A crocodile cannot stick its
tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its
own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its
right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000
taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste
buds.
The flea can jump 350 times
its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football
field.
A cockroach will live nine
days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot
copulate while its head is attached to its body.
The female initiates sex by
ripping the males head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times
a day.
Butterflies taste with their
feet.
Elephants are the only animals
that can't jump. (thankfully)
A cat's urine glows under a
backlight.
An ostrich's eye is bigger
than it's brain.
Starfishes haven't got brains.
Contributed by: Carson Bloomberg (ripped off this web page pointed out to me by Marcus)
Date Added: December 4, 1998