Interesting Tid Bits
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly
seems worth it!)
- 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 and speaking in front of people 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 the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 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 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 flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
- A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (Creepy!)
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
- Starfishes don't have a brain.