User:73DS/Facts


 * 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.

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 * A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
 * Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
 * Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
 * The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
 * Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
 * 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.
 * The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
 * 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 50 times a day.
 * Butterflies taste with their feet.
 * An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 * Starfish don't have brains.
 * Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
 * Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
 * The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
 * No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 13 times.
 * Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
 * You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
 * Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
 * The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
 * The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
 * A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
 * American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
 * Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
 * Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
 * The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
 * Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
 * The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
 * Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
 * * Marilyn Monroe had six toes. *
 * All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
 * Pearls melt in vinegar.
 * Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
 * The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
 * It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
 * The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
 * Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
 * Turtles can breathe through their butts.
 * In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
 * On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
 * On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
 * Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
 * Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
 * Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
 * Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 * A snail can sleep for three years.
 * No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'
 * Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
 * Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
 * The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
 * In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
 * TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
 * 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
 * If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
 * A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
 * The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
 * Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
 * When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
 * Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.
 * *When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.* (Hmm.)
 * Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!
 * If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
 * All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
 * *More people in China speak English than in the United States.* (I come from China, I speak english!)
 * A bird 'chews' with its stomach.
 * Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
 * A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
 * It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
 * The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.
 * In a year, an average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
 * In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
 * The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
 * The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
 * *President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents!*
 * Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
 * In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed! (Whoa! Think what you can do with all that money!)
 * More than 99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
 * Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow. Did you try?