More Interesting Facts

I Bet You Didn't Know That...
1. Polar bears are left-handed.

2. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

3.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

5. 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.

6. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

7. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

8. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

9. Butterflies taste with their feet.

10. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

11. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

12. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

13. Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.

14. A cat's urine glows under a black light.

15. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

16. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

17. Starfish have no brains.

18. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

19. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.




[Edited on Jan 05, 2006 by SicKingW4]

I think you meant mammal. I'd like to see a slug jump :p

are you sure a slug is an animal and not an insect?

insects are animals, slugs are defenitly not insects though, they're molluscs.

It had to be mammal. Starfishes don't even have brains, how could they jump?

It has been edited.

haha, well, now that all than animal vs. mammal business has been taken care of...

neat facts!

#18 is the only one I already knew

It's not just cat urine. Urine, feces, vomit and semen glows under a blacklight. I worked at a carpet cleaning company for two years, and hotels were our biggest clients. Eveything looks fine until you turn off the ights and flip on that blacklight.

I used to clean carpets too, and now whenever I'm in a hotel (which is rare), I always want to visit the nearest head shop or Spencer's to grab a blacklight and see who's done what to my room.

18. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.


[Edited on Jan 05, 2006 by SicKingW4]


what about the pig???

A person has over 10,000. :shrugs:

what about the pig???
Yeah really. How can you have one for 30 minutes and not be like "Damn! Lets do it again!" haha

Man, Im getting a blacklight just to do this someday

don't do it..you'll never sleep in hotel again

but only the male one, becaue only humans and dolfin females have orgasms

human females can orgasm???

Urban legend.

thought so

then im the legend lol

I never do anyway. I only have a couple times in my life.

Polar bears don't have hands.

yes they do

More random facts

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments.

The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week

The giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long. Each eye is a foot or more in diameter.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture
element.'

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is
number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a
resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th'
sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman
occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th"
sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the
Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement made by swearing on their testicles.

I'm not.....I sometimes spend up to 28 days/month in 2.5 star motels

thats where I am this instant

[Edited on Jan 05, 2006 by thorr74]