If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.The human heart creates enough pressurewhen it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, adefinite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it willdigest itselfHumans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, andfive on their front feet.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.A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.Butterflies taste with their feet.Elephants are the only mamals that can't jump.Starfish don't have brains.Polar bears are left handed.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.Snails can sleep for 3 years without eatingPorcupines float in water.Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)The only 15 letter word that can be spelledwithout repeating a letter is"uncopyrightable".Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple."I am" is the shortest complete sentence inthe English language.The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter "a"Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshieldwipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the"American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.Pearls melt in vinegar.Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.Only one person
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