Some Useless Facts

Some facts to thrill your neighbors with... (Or maybe not...):

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• If you toot consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 30 feet.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
• On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• 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.
• Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
• In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• 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.
• Polar bears are left handed.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds; that makes the catfish rank #1 for the animal having the most taste buds
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (Thankfully)
• A cat's urine glows under a black light.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Starfishes haven't got brains

 There you are, use it, don't use it!