Awesome life secrets

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.
(Hardly seems worth it)
2. If you fart 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)
3. A pig's orgasm lasts for
30 minutes.
(In my next life I want to
be a pig)
(How'd they figure this
out, and why?)
4. Banging your head
against a wall uses 150
calories an hour.
(Still can't get over that
pig thing)
(Don't try this at
home...maybe at work?)
5. Humans and dolphins
are the only species that
have sex for pleasure.
(Is that why (And pigs get 30-minute
orgasms? Doesn't seem
fair)
6. The strongest muscle in
the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmmmmm........)
7. Right-handed people
live, on average, nine
years longer than left-
handed people do.
(If you're ambidextrous
do you split the
difference?)
8. 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 taxpayers pay for
this research??)
9. Polar bears are left
handed.
(Who knew....? Who cares?
How'd they find out, did
they ask them?)
10. The catfish has over
27,000 taste buds.
(What can be so tasty on
the bottom of the pond?)
11. The flea can jump 350
times its body length.
It's like a human jumping
the length of a football
field.
(30 minutes...can you
imagine?? And why pigs?)
12. A cockroach will live
nine days without it's
head, before it starves to
death.
(Creepy)
13. 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....)
(Well, at least pigs get a
break there...)
14. Some lions mate over
50 times a day.
(In my next life I still
want to be a pig ... quality
over quantity)
15. Butterflies taste with
their feet.
(Oh, Geez) (That's almost
as bad as catfish)
16. An ostrich's eye is
bigger than it's brain.
(I know some people like
that.)
17. Starfish don't have
brains.
(I know some people like
that too.)
Interesting Facts II
1. Mosquito repellents
don't repel. They hide
you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so
they don't know you're
there.
2. Dentists have
recommended that a
toothbrush be kept at
least 6 feet away from a
toilet to avoid airborne
particles resulting from
the flush.
3. The liquid inside young
coconuts can be used as
substitute for blood
plasma.
4. No piece of paper can
be folded in half more
than 7 times.
5. Donkeys kill more
people annually than
plane crashes.
6. You burn more calories
sleeping than you do
watching television.
7. Oak trees do not
produce acorns until they
are fifty years of age or
older.
8. The first product to
have a bar code was
Wrigley's gum.
9. The king of hearts is
the only king without a
mustache.
10. A Boeing 747s
wingspan is longer than
the Wright brother's first
flight.
11. American Airlines
saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating 1 olive from
each salad served in first-
class.
12. Venus is the only
planet that rotates
clockwise.
13. Apples, not caffeine,
are more efficient at
waking you up in the
morning.
14. The plastic things on
the end of shoelaces are
called aglets.
15. Most dust particles in
your house are made
from dead skin.
16. The first owner of the
Marlboro Company died
of lung cancer.
17. Michael Jordan makes
more money from Nike
annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in
Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had
six toes. (rumor)
19. All US Presidents have
worn glasses. Some just
didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.
20. Walt Disney was
afraid of mice.
21. Pearls melt in vinegar.
22. Thirty-five percent of
the people who use
personal ads for dating
are already married.
23. The three most
valuable brand names on
earth: Marlboro, Coca-
Cola, and Budweiser, in
that order.
24. It is possible to lead a
cow upstairs...but not
downstairs.
25. A duck's quack doesn't
echo and no one knows
why. (Or does it? http://
www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/
acoustics_world/duck/
duck.htm)
26. The reason firehouses
have circular stairways is
from the days when the
engines were pulled by
horses. The horses were
stabled on the ground
floor and figured out how
to walk up straight
staircases.
28. Turtles can breathe
through their butts.
29. Butterflies taste with
their feet.
30. In 10 minutes, a
hurricane releases more
energy than all of the
world's nuclear weapons
combined.
31. On average, 100
people choke to death on
ball-point pens every
year.
32. On average people
fear spiders more than
they do do death 34. Elephants are the only
animals that can't jump.
35. Only one person in
two billion will live to be
116 or older.
36. Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.