Awkward's Humour and Sillies

28 Interesting Facts

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
3. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (So what are you waiting for?)
4. If you fart consistantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create an atomic bomb.
5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
6. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
7. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
8. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
9. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
10. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
11. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
12. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
13. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Left-handies take note!!)
14. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
15. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
16. 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.
17. Polar bears are left handed.
18. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animals having the most taste buds.
19. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a footbal field.
20. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
21. A gorilla's penis is 1/3 that of a human.
22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
23. The giraffe has a black tongue that is 14 inches long and about no vocal cords.
24. Butterflies taste with their feet.
25. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
26. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
27. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
28. Starfishes haven't got brains.

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