Wednesday 30 December 2009

Interesting facts II

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. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
8. 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.
9. Polar bears are left handed.
10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
13. 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.
14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
15. Butterflies taste with their feet.
16. Starfish don't have brains.
17. Fireflies actually contain the so-called Luciferin. This substance when combined with oxygen will enable them to produce light.
18. The largest octopus weighs about 15kg and has three hearts and it can squeeze through a hole the size of a 10-cent coin.
19. Only female mosquitoes bites humans and drinks their blood.
20.  The fear of number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia. There were thirteen people at Christ's Last Supper before his captivity, it is recorder that Christ was crucified on Friday. Some hotels skip number thirteen when numbering rooms. In Formula 1, there is no car with the number 13.
21.  Google, the Internet search company founded in September 1998. by Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got it's name from the word Googol, which represents number 1 followed with hundred zeros after it.
22. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

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