Weird Facts

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• 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 human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.
• 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 its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male 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 blacklight.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
• Starfishes haven't got brains.

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