| If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and
6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to
heat one cup of coffee. |
(Hardly seems worth it)
|
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months enough
gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. |
(Now that's more like it) |
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps
out to the Body to squirt blood 30 feet. |
(OMG!) |
| A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. |
(In my next life I want to be a pig) |
| Banging your head against
a wall uses 150 calories an hour. |
(Still not over that pig thing.) |
| A cockroach will live nine days without
its head, before it starves to death. |
(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. |
("Honey, I'm home. What the....") |
| Some lions mate over 50 times a day. |
(I still want to be a pig in my next life. Quality over
quantity.) |
| Butterflies taste their own feet. |
(Something I always wanted to know.) |
| Elephants are the only animals that cannot
jump. |
(OK, so that would be a good thing....) |
| A cat's urine glows under a black light. |
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out.) |
| An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
|
(I know some people like that.) |
| Starfish have no brains. |
(I know some people like that.) |
| Polar bears are left-handed. |
(Who knew...? Who cares!) |
| In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to
have sex with animals, but the animals must be female.
Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable
by death. |
( Like THAT makes sense. ) |
| In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine
a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly
at them during the examination. He may only see their
reflection in a mirror. |
(Do they look different reversed? ) |
| Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals
of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex
organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or
piece of wood at all times. |
(A brick? ? ) |
| The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia
is decapitation. |
(Much worse than "going blind! ") |
| There are men in Guam whose full-time job
is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins,
who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first
time. . . Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden
for virgins to marry. |
(Let's just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere
else in the world that even comes close to this? ) |
| In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally
allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do
so with her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other
hand, may be killed in any manner desired. |
(Ah! Justice! ) |
| Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool,
England - but only in tropical fish stores. |
(But of course! ) |
| In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have
sex with her husband, and the first time this happens,
her mother must be in the room to witness the act. |
(Makes one shudder at the thought. ) |
| In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for
a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the
same time. |
(I presume this was a big enough problem that they had
to pass this law? ) |
| In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms
from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics
may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in
places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption
on the premises." |
(Is this a great country or what? Not as great as Guam!
) |
| The strongest muscle in the body is the
tongue. |
(Hummm. . . . I won't touch THAT one! ) |
| 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. |
(From drinking little bottles of. . . ? -- did the govt.
pay for this research? ? ) |
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
for pleasure. |
(What about the pig?) |
| And, the best
for last..... Turtles can breathe through their butts. |
(Do you think
they have bad breath?)
|
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Here are some More...........WoW
is the world a wonderous place............
Full of mystery
|
- Our eyes are always the
same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
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- In the last 4,000 years,
no new animals have been domesticated.
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- Babies are born without
kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches
2 to 6 years of age.
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- Leonardo Da Vinci invented
the scissors.
|
- Cats have over one hundred
vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
|
- A snail can sleep for
three years.
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- If the population of
China walked past you in single file, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction.
|
- No word in the English
language rhymes with month.
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- Shakespeare invented
the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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- The name of all the continents
end with the same letter that they start with.
|
- "Stewardesses"
is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
With your right, "lollipop.
|
- Women blink nearly twice
as much as men.
|
- The cruise liner, QE2,
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that
it burns.
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- The winter of 1932 was
so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
|
- The words 'racecar' and
'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.
|
- In most advertisements,
including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch
face is 10:10.
|
- TYPEWRITER is the longest
word that can be made using the letters only on one
row of the keyboard.
|
- There's no Betty Rubble
in the Flintstone Chewables.
|
- If you are an average
American, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting
at a red light in your whole life.
|
- The Bible does not say
there were three wise men; it only says there were
three gifts.
|
- Your stomach has to produce
a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it
will digest itself.
|
- "Skepticisms"
is the longest word that alternates hands.
|
- There are two words in
the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
|
- A piece of square dry
paper cannot be folded more than 7 times in half.
|
- Pierre, South Dakota,
is the only example of a state and capital in the
U.S. that does not share any letters.
|
- A group of geese on the
ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is
a skein.
|
- There is a word in the
English language with only one vowel, which occurs
five times: "indivisibility."
|
- A "jiffy" is
an actual unit of time for1/100th of a second.
|
- Did you know that crocodiles
never outgrow the pool in which they live? That means
that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would
be little for the rest of its life.
|
- Pinocchio is Italian
for "pine eye".
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- The sentence "The
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter of the alphabet.
|
- A crocodile cannot stick
its tongue out.
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- The only 15 letter word
that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable".
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- February 1865 is the
only month in recorded history not to have a moon.
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