Interesting Facts

This a sequel to my previous fun facts blog entry. Feel free to leave any comments!

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.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Polar bears are left handed.
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.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Starfish don't have brains.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

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