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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke

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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (11148)8/21/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: Pami  Read Replies (4) of 62558
 
EVERYONE REALLY NEEDS TO KNOW THESE 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.
(Hardly seems worth it!)

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough
gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Exactly how do they know this?)

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.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(Hmmmmm.....)

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.

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. (From drinking little bottles of...?) (Did the govt. pay for this research??)

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, which makes the catfish rank #1 for the 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.(Creepy!)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is
attached to its body. The female begins by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....")

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

Starfish don't have brains.
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