Some very intresting facts, you need to know.

[mutanthalibut]

----- 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.)






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If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)






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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

(O.M.G.!)






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A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)






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A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)



(I'm still not over the pig.)






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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour

(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)






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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....?!")






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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?)






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The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)





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Some lions mate over 50 times a day.



(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)






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Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)






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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm......)






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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.



(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)






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Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(okay, so that would be a good thing)
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A cat's urine glows under a black light.


(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)






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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)






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Starfish have no brains

(I know some people like that too.)






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Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)







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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)

[Jacques]

mutanthalibut wrote:

> Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
> pleasure.


Not true What about the Bonobo ?

[mutanthalibut]

The what????

[mutanthalibut]

Forgive my Ignorance........

Bonobos are humankind?s closest relative (along with the chimpanzee), but they were the last discovered, and are now the least known, of the great apes, and they only exist in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

[IdolDroog]

>
> Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
> pleasure.
>


Erm, i think you'll find humans and dolphins are the only ones who DONT just have sex for pleasure but for planned procreation.....Sheep and Pigs etc don't know that sex is continuining their family names - it just feels good

[Sam Slater]

[quote]The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.[/quote]

Thats depends on the width of the transport mechanism (ie: the artery width), and the strength of the individuals heart & arterial muscles.

[quote]A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.[/quote]

I'm unaware of this. I DO know that a pigs 'erection' is spiral shaped, and that the pig has to wait until his erection subsides before pulling out.

[quote]A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.[/quote]

Thats because their brains are spread out through the body. Cutting off the head will stop it eating, seeing, and walking around (due to the part of the brain that holds the nervous system is in the head.) The nervous stystem failure won't effect it's breathing as they breath through holes in the exoskeliton, which lets *oxygen particles absorb straight into the blood stream.

* I'm not 100% sure about the breathing, but it's near the mark.

[quote]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.[/quote]

We don't know if this is exactly true, and it's an old theory. Some males offer their heads during copulation but the female waits until ejaculation before eating the head. Some eat the head upon ejaculation, and some just before ejaculation. The newer theory -from Dawkins- suggests that the 'offering of the head' produces a bigger ejaculate, so the female has more of a chance of fertilization. Natural selection made sure that females only copulated with males who offered their heads for sex. Any males that didn't offer their heads weren't selected by females, thus the 'offering heads' characteristic, spread through the praying mantis gene pool. (It's more 'sexual selection', than natural selection.) So a male Praying Mantis 'CAN' copulate with his head attached, but he'll just not get chosen by any females.

[quote]Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.[/quote]

People always get this one wrong. They're the only Mammals that can't jump, not the only animals. For instance, a snail, slug, worm, jellyfish, etc cannot jump either.

[quote]The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.[/quote]

Again, a myth. It's the quadriceps for overall strength, but reletive to muscle size, it's the jaw muscles. The tongue is the only muscle thats only attached at one end.

[quote]Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.[/quote]

Someones beat me to this one. Bonobos and even other chimpanzees have sex for pleasure also. In chimpanzees it's the female that seems to copulate with lots of males. People first thought that it was to make sure a female was fertilized but studies have shown that female chimps also masterbate themselves to orgasm also, so maybe chimpanzees also have sex because they 'get off' on it?

Bonobos are the only other animal -apart from humans- that have sex 'face to face' and have been shown to look into eachothers eyes during copulation. (I find this really creepy indeed because chimpanzees never look eachother in the eyes.) The first thing a mother does with a newborn is look into her childs eyes, and the child 'tries' the same. It's a natural 'human' characteristic. Bonobos seem to have this too.

[mutanthalibut]

Thanks for all that, Sam. I now feel incredibly informed.

Funnily enough, I also ejaculate more while my head is being eaten.

...And I can't believe you haven't heard about Simon the skateboarding snail. Now I know he uses ramps, but boy can he jump.

Cheers

[Sam Slater]

Lol! It was my pleasure! !laugh!

[Sam Slater]

Also, remember than if you ever go on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and get any of the questions I gave you the answer to, I want 30%.......I'm not greedy and asking for 50%, 30% will do.