If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for six years and nine months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it !)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work.)
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.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes... Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life....quality over quantity.)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm......)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing?)
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
3 comments:
OMGosh, Cameo - ROFL!!!!!
The inevitable dose of reality:
Yelling for eight years, seven months and six days—if you did it continuously and didn't take a breath—wouldn’t heat up a cup of coffee much. Maybe a couple of degrees, maybe three, if you frequency-compressed it all into fifteen seconds of air vibrations. If you took fifteen second chunks of the yelling and additively combined them into one fifteen-second sound, all it would do is knock over the coffee cup (and probably break the speakers).
Farting: You expel about 1/2 liter of gas per average day. Six years and nine months comes out to about 1200 liters; even if it was all methane, this would make a boom, but nothing even remotely close to an atomic bomb.
That said, if you assume the perfect conversion of matter to energy, one gram of material from your body (easily obtained by, say, clipping your fingernails) could be converted into the energy equivalent of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb (or if you prefer ounces, one ounce could be converted into a 609-kiloton bomb). 1200 liters of methane weighs about 500 kilograms, which converts into roughly 500,000 Hiroshima scale bombs, or about 10,500 megatons worth of kaboom. That's a truly huge amount.
The pig: That's technically true, but after the first minute, both pigs get bored and start thinking about food.
Banging your head against a wall uses an increasing number of calories, as your body will eventually have to marshal resources to repair the damage. Eventually, however, you'll probably cause a subdural bleed in the brain, resulting in eventual death. As it happens, death produces weight loss, so if that's your primary goal, you're home free.
Catfish: If you're mouthing your way through muck, you want a reliable, accurate way of distinguishing the good from the bad, particularly when there is so much bad.
Saying that butterflies "taste" anything is a bit of a stretch. You might as well say that they feel the chemicals that produce odor.
The tongue is not the strongest muscle in the human body—not even close. It is the strongest muscle that is only anchored at one end, however.
The primary reason that right-handed people ("on average") live longer is because those in the labor sector run afoul of machines or devices that are better designed for right-handers. In all other respects, the lifespans are statistically equivalent.
Rhinoceri cannot jump, either. Nor can hippopotami.
All urine glows under black light. It contains phosphorous. In fact, if you collect a bucket full of your own urine, and let it sit in your basement for a couple of weeks, it will start glowing all on its own.
The giant squid's eye is far, far bigger than its brain. Its eye is fifteen inches in diameter.
Starfish do have brains, of a sort; its brain is a distributed neural network. However, a sea sponge is an amazing critter: no brain, no real nervous system, but you can force it through a sieve, and it will eventually reassemble.
Not just humans and dolphins, but chimpanzees, dogs, gorillas, and quite a few other species have sex for pleasure, not just reproduction. Hundreds more species masturbate. The bonobo (a close relative to the chimpanzee, and arguably the closest primate to humans) elevates sex to almost an artform—it is the core of their social interaction.
And yes: polar bears are primarily left-handed—no right-handed polar bears have yet been observed. Nobody knows why yet. :)
Ah, well. Thanks for setting the facts straight, Ken. I was far more interested in the humor than the accuracy when I cut/pasted/posted it.
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