Interesting Stuff*
*Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
*Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
*A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
*People Do Not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
*When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop...even your heart!
*Only 7% of the population are lefties.
*40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
*Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
*The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
*The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
*The average housefly lives for one month.
*40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
*A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
*The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
*Eating breakfast cereals like "Fruity Pebbles" and "Cap'n Crunch Berries" will cause your stool to come out green.
*Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
*About 20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called their inner ear canal HOME. They enter while you sleep! This rates a good 10 on the ewwww-yuck scale and right up there with the fact that many of us have eaten a spider in our sleep tooooo (EWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!)
*The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
*The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
*John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".
*Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
*In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
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Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
*The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
*The first powered lawn-mower used a peach can as a fuel tank.
*Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
*Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
*If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.*
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.
*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 than they do death.
*The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
*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.
*The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to it's 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
*An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
*Starfish don't have brains.
*Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. But, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack the jerk upside the head.
*I take absolutely no responsibilty as to the accuracy or truthfullness of these claims, in fact I disagree with at least one. Information is provided "as is"