Funny Real Facts.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death. (Creepy. I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Warning: Do not try this at home........ maybe at work.)
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. ("Honey, I'm home. What the......?!" wink
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. (30 minutes....lucky pig.... Can you imagine 30 minute orgasm??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond or the sea?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life.... quality over quantity!)
Butterflies can taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmmm........ won't go there.)
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. (OK, so that would be a good thing.)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
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. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig???)
^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.
^Singapore has only one train station.
^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 1,00 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.
^Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
^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.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
-There are more chickens than people in the world.
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over theParliament
building is an American flag.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, or purple.
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-All 50 states are listed across the to! p of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5 bill.
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
-There are only four words in the English language which end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina
de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful
Life."
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand.
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