Some Interesting But Useless Facts

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat a cup of coffee. Hardly seems worth it!

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

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour. (Frankly, I'm still thinking about the pig thing!!)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig???)

On the average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmm...)

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.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life ... quality over quantity.)

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

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

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies including eyebrows and eyelashes. (Ow!)

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing ...)

Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)

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. (Ok, I have to ask ... who is getting the ants drunk and why??? Are my tax dollars being used for these studies?)

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 tastebuds; that makes the catfish rank #1 for the animal with the most tastbuds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, its like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Well that's creepy!)

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. (Talk about an aggressive lover!!!)

A cat's urine glows under blacklight. (Again I have to ask are my tax dollars paying for these studies?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfishes haven't got brains.

   ..... Ya know, after reading all of these, all I can say is "DAMN PIGS!!!"