| Cool Facts |
| If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffe. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas would have been produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 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. A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. The catfish has over 27, 000 taste buds. Butterflies taste with their feet. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left-handed people do. Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish have no brains. Mosquito repellents don't really repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors to they don't know you're there. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do no 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 747's 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. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. All US Presidents have worn glasses, some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Pearls melt in vinegar. 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. Turtles can breathe through their butts. |