Interesting Facts

**andyinlondon** · 30th November 2003

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> >> >If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
> >>enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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> >> >(Hardly seems worth it.)
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> >> >If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
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> >> >(Now that's more like it!)
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> >> >The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
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> >> >(O.M.G.!)
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> >> >A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
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> >> >(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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> >> >A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to
> >>death. (Creepy.)
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> >> >(I'm still not over the pig.)
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> >> >Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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> >> >(Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)
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> >> >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.
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> >> >("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")
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> >> >The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping
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> >> >(30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)
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> >> >The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
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> >> >(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
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> >> >Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
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> >> >(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
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> >> >Butterflies taste with their feet.
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> >> >(Something I always wanted to know.)
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> >> >The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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> >> >(Hmmmmmm........)
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> >> >Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed
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> >> >(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
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> >> >Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
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> >> >(OK, so that would be a good thing....)
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> >> >A cat's urine glows under a black light.
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> >> >(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
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> >> >An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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> >> >(I know some people like that.)
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> >> >Starfish have no brains.
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> >> >(I know some people like that too.)
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> >> >Polar bears are left-handed.
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> >> >(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
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> >> >Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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> >> >(What about that pig??)
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