Saturday, June 2, 2007

Do you know?

1. Cows have an average lifespan of 7 years. Big Bertha was the oldest cow ever recorded, when she reached 48 in 1993.
She also holds the record for producing the most number of calves – 39.

2. A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth.

3. Ants can carry up to 10 times their own weight.

4. Male orangutans are 4 times stronger than the average man.

5. A woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.

6. 1 in every 4 animals is a beetle.

7. Camels can produce up to 600 litres of milk a year. They can also close their nostrils.

8. A blue whale’s heart beats only 9 times a minute.

9. The blue-ringed octopus starts life the size of a pea and is fully grown at the size of a golf ball,

but it carries enough poison to kill 26 adults within minutes.

10. A hippo can run faster than a man.

Weird Facts

Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.

A snail’s pace is 0.00625 miles per hour.

Bees are born fully grown.

The only food cockroaches won’t eat is cucumber.

A humpback Whales penis can be longer than 10 feet.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

When the Americans first sent man into space they spent a million dollars developing a pen which
could write in the conditions of zero gravity. The Russians used a pencil.
97% of paper money in the USA contains traces of cocaine.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Horses can’t vomit.

The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

87% lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza very 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.