Useless Facts


*   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 fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
    produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

*   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.

*   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 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 its head, before it
    starves to death.

*   The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
    to its body.  The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

*   Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

*   Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals
    that can't jump. (thankfully)

*   A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.