Fun Facts I
Fun Facts I
2. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
3. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
4. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
5. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
6. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
7. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
8. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
9. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
11. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
12. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
13. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
14. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
15. 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.
16. Polar bears are left handed.
17. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
18. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
19. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
20. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
21. 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.
22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
25. Starfish don't have brains.
26. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
27. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
28. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
29. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
30. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
31. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
32. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
33. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
34. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
35. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
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