A Whole Stack of Facts

Weird But True
A Whole Stack of Facts

· There are more Shania Twain CDs than the entire populations of New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
· Annual sales of CDs, cassettes and video in the US total more than the gross national product of 80 countries.
· The top 200 richest people in the world have more money than the bottom 2 BILLION....
· Men outnumber women in some areas of rural China by 28 to 1.
· One pair of rats can produce 100,000 descendants within three years.
· Cats have better memories than dogs. While a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat's recall can last as long as 16 hours.
· If they had to choose, most men would rather be 5 foot 2 inches tall with a 7 inch penis (62%), than 6 foot 2 inches tall with a 3 inch penis (36%).
· For every second all thruster rockets on the Space Shuttle are in operation they use an amount of oxygen equivalent to ONE BILLION people simultaneously inhaling.
· Soft drinks are American's favorite beverage. Water ranks #2, and milk is #3. The average American drinks about 52 gallons of soft drinks per year.
· Men sweat about 40% more than women.
· The longest place name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which is a name of a hill.
· Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.
· The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
· The Emmy Award was named after the nickname for the image orthicon tube that was used in early television. Probably because Emmy sounds so much better than "Here's your golden Orthicon's Tube."
· If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee.
· The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
· 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.
· On average, people fear spiders more then they do death.
· The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
· 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.
· A cockroach will live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
· The male praying mantis cannot copulate while it's 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.
· Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
· Pearls melt in vinegar.
· The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
· Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
· A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
· Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down-hence the expression "to get fired."
· The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
· The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
· Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
· The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
· The man, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
· All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4:20.