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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

Butterflies taste with their feet

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

Starfish do not have brains

1,300 Americans are injured by toilet seats alone every year.

A ten gallon hat only hold 3/4 of a gallon.

It takes 11kg of chocolate to give a 60kg man a buzz!

Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13!

The largest children's party ever had 160,000 children involved.

One medium popcorn with butter at the movies has the same amount of fat as six Big Macs.

The most children a woman ever gave birth to is 65.

The shortest person ever measured 57cm or 22.4 inches.

LL Cool J stands for Ladies Love Cool James.

R&B stands for Rhythms and Blues.

Rivers Cuomo (Weezer's lead singer) had an operation because one of his legs was longer than the other.

Smashing Pumpkins was formed after Billy met D'Arcy. How did they meet? By getting into a fight outside a bar!

Jackie Chan has broken almost every bone in his body. He is blacklisted from every insurance company.

The first person in space is Yuri A. Gagarin who went up on April 12, 1961.

The world's largest carrot weighs 7.13kg or 69.9N (Newton).

The largest tumour ever removed from a human weighed 148kg.

Eisteddfod is an annual meeting of Welsh poets and musicians for competitions.

SCUBA stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

On average, we spend 5 years waiting in line for various reasons. (Thanks to Jenn for that!)

10% of the world's population is left-handed.

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