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Interesting Facts
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Very important facts
Submitted by Rhonda Horinka
- --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 while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
- --Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- --Humans and dolphins 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 eye- brows 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, more than any other animal.
- --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. The only reason it doesn't live longer is it's unable to eat.
- --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 blacklight.
- --An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
- --Starfish haven't got brains.
- --After reading all these, all I can say is..... Lucky Pig.
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