Joke: Strange Facts

[Eric Thelin <eric@generation-i.com>]

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 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 eyebrows and eyelashes.

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 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 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.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Starfishes haven't got brains.