funny fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6
days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its
size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough pressure
when it pumps out to the body to squirt
blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses
150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it is
mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-
tasting substance like salt is placed on a
dry tongue, the taste buds will not be
able to taste it. As soon as a drop of
saliva is added and the salt is dissolved,
however, a definite taste sensation
results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer
of mucus every two weeks otherwise it
will digest itself
Humans are the only primates that don't
have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people who
use personal ads for dating are already
married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but
not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet,
and five on their front feet.
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.
A cockroach will live nine days without
it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mamals that can't
jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one
knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are
virtually indistinguishable from those of
humans, so much so that they could be
confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without
eating
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal besides
humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a
time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female
emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-
inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by
torpedoing up into to shark's stomach
from underneath, causing the shark to
explode.
Ten percent of the Russian government's
income comes from the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of playing
the first four moves per side in a game
of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The sentence "The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog." uses every
letter in the alphabet. (Developed by
Western Union to Test telex/two
communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is
typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes
with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
If you spell out consecutive numbers,
you have to go up to one thousand until
you would find the letter "a"
Men can read smaller print than women;
women can hear better than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers, and laser printers
were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore when
the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the
"American Pie." (Thus the name of the
Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander
the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if
injected intravenously.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
If you put a raisin in a glass of
champagne, it will keep floating to the
top and sinking to the bottom.
Only one person in two billion will live to
be 116 or older.
It was discovered on a space mission that
a frog can throw up. The frog throws up
its stomach first, so the stomach is
dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog
uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows
the stomach back down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they
would soon die; they need gravity to
swallow.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the
seventh floor of a building, it has about
thirty percent less chance of surviving
than a cat that falls off the twentieth
floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realise what is
occurring, relax and correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk
backwards, and are on the Australian coat
of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the
Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by
donkeys than die in aircrashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then
thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
A shark can detect one part of blood in
100 million parts of water.
A rat can last longer without water than
a camel.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws,
push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it
will let you go instantly.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will
not be heads 5000 times,but more like
4950. The heads picture weighs more, so
it ends up on the bottom.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They
don't appear until the child reaches 2-6
years of age.
The 3 most valuable brand names on
earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
Coca Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the
sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The most common name in the world is
Mohammed.
Intelligent people have more zinc and
copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and
9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he
was nine. His parents thought he might
be retarded.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one
hand and draw with the other at the
same time.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary,
my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never
said "Play it again, Sam".
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th
of a second.
Months that begin on a Sunday will
always have a "Friday the 13th."
First novel ever written on a typewriter:
Tom Sawyer
The mask used by Michael Myers in the
original film "Halloween" was actually a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander
Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is
missing the entire middle finger of his
right hand.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a
small red car can be seen in the distance.
The first couple to be shown in bed
together on prime time television were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was
allergic to carrots.
Every day more money is printed for
monopoly than the US Treasury.
The city with the most Roll Royces per
capita: Hong Kong
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness:
28% Percentage of North America that is
wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life
size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the
age of 11: £4000
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid
of their unwanted people without killing
them used to burn their houses down -
hence the expression "to get fired."
The name Jeep came from the
abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The term "whole 9 yards" came from
WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the
ground, the .50 caliber machine gun
ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If
the pilots fired all their ammo at a target,
it got the "whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived
from an old English law which stated that
you couldn't beat your wife with
anything wider than your thumb.
The US Interstate road system was
designed so that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections
are usable as airstrips in times of war or
other emergencies.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each gallon of
fuel that it burns.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a
divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from
Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as
medicine
You can tell from the statue of a
mounted horseman how the rider died. If
all four of the horse's feet are on the
ground, he died of natural causes. One
foot raised means he died from wounds
suffered in battle. Two legs raised means
he died in action.