Interesting Facts!

[Jan]

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
3. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
6. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
7. Butterflies taste with their feet.
8. The average sexual experience lasts about 39 minutes.
9. 53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
10. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
11. 45% believe in ghosts.
12. 82% believe in an after life.
13. 29% of us are virgins when we marry.
14. 53% read their horoscopes regularly.
15. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
16. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
17. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
18. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
19. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
20. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

[James]

Some more facts

1. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
2. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
3. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
4. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
5. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
6. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
7. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
8. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10. Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
11. The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago it was a 34B.

Please feel free to add if you know any more facts.

[harry]

*Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
*Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink.
*The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
*The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
*The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
*Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Really i was not knowing any of these facts..... just got these while surfing the net.

[paul]

I highly doubt on Jan's point no. 3, most of mammals enjoy sex, the dog all the day hang out with female dog and go around her even I heard few sheeps are gay too! huh!

[James]

Gay Sheeps lol

I haven't heard this before.

Paul, your observation is tremendous. :p

Paul, I'd really like to hear more about this topic from you.

[paul]

James,
Here is the story: news.com.au/story/0,23599,21000495-2,00.html
The experiments is supposed to conduct to help farmers, who complained they were losing out financially because on average one in ten rams is gay but the lesbian and gay community are opposing on this.

[kev woodman]

They found lesbian behaviour in cows as well. Actually I think you'd find that a lot of these 'facts' are pretty tenuous at best.