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If you yelled for eight years, seven months, and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you farted consistently for six years and nine months, enough gas would be 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 thirty feet. A pig's orgasm lasts for thirty minutes. 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. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Americans, on average, eat eighteen acres of pizza every day. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming one-tenth of a calorie. 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 crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. The ant can lift fifty times its own weight, can pull thirty 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, which makes it the animal with the most taste buds. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's like a human jumping the length of a football field. A cockroach will live nine days without its 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 male's head off. Some lions mate over fifty times a day. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish don't have brains. |
| Last updated 26 August 2004. |