strange true facts

Strange Facts
*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 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.
*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, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.*A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
*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.
*The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
*A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
*The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
*Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
*Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
*Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
*in Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.
*In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.
*A group of larks is called an exaltation.
*A elephant is the heavest of all land mammals at around 8,000 pounds.
*A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
*A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
*A man had the hiccups for 69 years. *A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of it's body.
*A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.
*A monkey was once tride and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,Indiana.
*A noisy resturant is 100,000 times as lound as a watch ticking. Rock Consert 1,000,000,000 times as loud. Loud headphones 10,000,000,000. Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000
*A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
*A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt lightbulb
*A group of owls is called a parliament.
*A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
*A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
*A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
*A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champange will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
*A rat can last longer with out water than a camel.
*A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
*A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.
*A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
*A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
*A group of ravens is called a murder.
*A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week
*A silicon chip a quarter inch square has the capacity of the orignal 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block
.*A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000 gallons of moisture.
*A snail can have about 25,000 teeth
*A group of toads is called a knot.
*About 3,500 gallons if water is needed to produce one pound of beef.
*A group of rhinos is called a crash.
*A Walla Walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background when they say walla walla it looks like they are actually talking.
*A whales heart beats only nine times a minute.
*A woodchuck breathers only ten times during hibernation.
*A zebra is white with black stripes.
*Anteaters prefers termites to ants.
*Ants stretch before they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
*Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. *Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
*Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
*Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
*Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
*All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as a large ocean liner.
*A group of Unicorns is called a blessing.
*Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. *After eating, a housefly regurgitates is food and then eats it again.
*al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
*Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings. *Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
*Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world combined.
*Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
*Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
*Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
*A group of whales is called a pod.
*Abraham Lincoln was the only US president ever granted a patent.
*According to Genesis 1:2022 the chicken came before the egg.
*Chopsuey is not a native Chinese dish, it was crafted in California by Chinese immigrants.
*Chrysler built B29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
*If you are chased by a crocodile, run zigzag, a crocodile is not good at making sharp turns. *Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
*Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
*There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
*The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
*A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
*There are more chickens than people in the world.
*Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
*The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
*On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. *All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
*No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
*"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
*All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. *Almonds are a member of the peach family.
*Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
*A goldfish has a memory span of three minutes
*Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
*In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
*In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
*In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US
*In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.' *In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a bride remained married until her wedding gown was worn out. If she wanted a divorce after 2 weeks, all she had to do was rip up her dress.
*In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death. *IN the flim 'Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. But new Zealand is missing. *In Toy Story, the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in The Shining. *Ireland is the only place where windmills turn clockwise.
*Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey decimal category.
*It costs $6,400 to raise a medium size dog to age eleven.
*It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equipt and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
*It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
*It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
*It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
*It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not downstairs.
*It take 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth.
*It takes a yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.
*it takes more than 500 peanuts to make one 12 ounce jar of peanut butter.
*It take the insect eating Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to shut its trap on prey.
*It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
*It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls with out human faces.
*It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
*Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customer wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
*J.S.Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his second.
*Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II *James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the US
*Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to being the back teeth together for chewing.
*Jean Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original Predator in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
*Jet lag was once called boat lag, beck before jets existed.
*Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a hospital.
*John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
*John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
*Kemo Sabe, the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger means Soggy Shrub in Navajo Indian. *Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
*Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
*King Kong in the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) relaced the same year (1933), and it was also Adolf hitlers favorite movie
*Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
*Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD. *Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI
*Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply 'if you were my wife, I would drink it'
*Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969, there by setting a new world's record for runners in the 100 years or older class. He was 101.
*Lawsuits riled be California inmates cost the taxpayers more than 25 million in 1994.
*Lee Harvey Oswals's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992
*Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!
*Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time. *Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
*Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
*Less than 7% of the population donates blood.
*Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
*Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
*Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
*Lobsters and crabs have blue blood becouse they have copper instead of iron in their bloodstream.
*Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.
*Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA
*Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
*In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned.
*In Georgia, it's against the law to spread a false rumor.
*Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
*A cat's urine glows under a black light.
*An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
*Starfishes haven't got brains
*the mona lisa has no eyebrows