Useless Facts VII 

Did you know that?----- 

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. 

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. 

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 pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 

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 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. 

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. 

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully) 

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. 

Starfishes haven`t got brains. 
  
  

Things that make you go Hmmm... 
1. Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift? 
2. Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? 
3. Can I yell "movie" in a crowded firehouse? 
4. Can you be a closet claustrophobic? 
5. How do a fool and his money GET together? 
6. How do you know when its time to tune your bagpipes? 
7. How is it that a building burns up as it burns down? 
8. If a train station is where the train stops, what is a work 
   station? 
9. If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick 
   to the pan? 
10. If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a 
   thousand words, how dangerous is a fax? 
11. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right 
   to remain silent? 
12. If you throw a cat out the car window, does it become kitty 
   litter? 
13. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald 
   men? 
14. What was the best thing before sliced bread? 
15. Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds" fee on money 
   they already know you don't have? 
16. Why do they put Braille on the drive through bank machines? 
17. Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections? 
18. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? 
19. What year did Jesus think it was? 
20. If you get cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do you 
   complain to? 
21. What happens if you get scared half to death twice? 
22. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown 
   too? 
23. What are Preparation A through Preparation G? 
24. After Eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before 
   getting out of the water? 
25. In a country of free speech, why are there phone bills? 
26. Did Washington flash a quarter when asked for ID? 
27. How come there aren't B batteries? 
28. If the post office has machines that can sort snail mail at 
   1000's of times per minute, then why do they give it to a little 
   old man on a bike to deliver? 
29. How do "Do not walk on the grass" signs get there? 
30. Why do black olives come in cans and green olives come in jars? 
31. Is a metaphor like a simile? 
32. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? 
33. How do I set my laser printer on stun? 
34. How is it possible to have a civil war? 
35. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? 
36. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? 
37. If the #2 pencil is so popular, why is it still #2? 
38. If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry? 
39. Why is the alphabet in that order?  Is it because of that song? 
40. If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet? 
41. Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer? 
42. Crime doesn't pay...does that mean that my job is a crime? 
43. Did Noah keep his bees in archives? 
44. How can there be self-help "groups"? 
47. How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? 
45. How do you know that honesty is the best policy until you have 
   tried some of the others? 
46. How do you throw away a garbage can? 
47. How does a thermos know if the drink should be hot or cold? 
48. How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the 
   mornings? 
49. Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would 
   just take the time to take the dirt out of them? 
50. If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? 
51. If Superman is so smart, then why does he wear his underpants 
   on the outside of his trousers? 
52. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens 
   when you turn on the headlights? 
53. What happens to an 18 hour bra after 18 hours? 
54. Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? 
55. Why do hot dogs come 10 to a package and hot dog buns only 8? 
56. Why do tourists go to the tops of tall buildings and then put 
   money into telescopes so they can see things on the ground 
   close-up? 
57. Why do we kill people for killing people to show that killing 
   people is wrong? 
58. Why is it that bullets ricochet off of Superman's chest, but he 
   ducks when the gun is thrown at him? 
59. Why is it that night falls but day breaks? 
60. Why is it that you must wait until night to call it a day? 
61. How do you remove a club soda stain? 
62. What if the Hokey Pokey IS what its all about? 
63. When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he 
   wonder why you're just sitting there, staring at carpeting? 
64. What happened to the first 6 "ups"?