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A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes


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

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue

(Just thought you would like to know)

Pam

That makes me think of an old Peter Cook comedy sketch

I was spellbound!

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000

One pregnant goat can provide lots of milk after she has her kidd.

Beetles taste like apples,wasps(the ones with wings)taste like pine nuts,and worms taste like fried bacon.mmmm!

Honey is the only food that doesn"t spoil.Sweet!

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.Thank God!

Adolf Hitler only had one testicle.He did seem to be always overcompensating!

Women blink almost twice as much as men.If ya wanna pass,Blink-blink-blink!

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds

Butterflies taste with their feet

It takes 700 calories worth of grain and feed to make 100 calories worth of beef. Now think about how inefficient meat-based agriculture is.

what about the fact that the pestisides used in growing grain becomes highly concentrated inside the meat. And factory farms are big methane pumps for our atmosphere.

A few more:

- A duck's quack doesn't echo.
- In medieval times animals could be tried for the same crimes as people.
- Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.
- The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- Honey is nearly impervious to spoilage.

Honey can crystallize on aging though, and then can be sucked on like caramel. Hmmm...

It can be made syrupy again by putting it in a Maria bath, btw.

"Weird" Al Yankovic received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981. He also served as valedictorian of his high school at age 16.

There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

The Bank of Vernal, in Vernal, Utah (where else?) is the only bank in the world that was built from bricks sent through the mail. Way back in 1919 the builders realized that it was cheaper to send the bricks through the United States Postal System (seven bricks to a package) than to have them shipped commercially from Salt Lake City.
Source: The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual by Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler, 1994, Galahad Books

From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.

The closest land relatives to dolphins are thought to be cows, pigs and deer.

The largest dolphin is the orca, sometimes called the Killer Whale.

Yay!

The venom of the Daddy Long Leg spider is extremely deadly, yet because of it's tiny mouth, this spider is harmless to humans.

I thought this was true for a long time, but Snopes says otherwise:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.asp

- Prohibition didn't end until 1966 in Mississippi.
- There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio. They are all man-made.
- Michigan borders no ocean but has more lighthouses than any other state.
- Oregon has the most ghost towns of any state.
- There are more English speakers in China than there are in the US.
- An exocannibal is a cannibal who eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends. (Make sure you check the next time you visit some parts of New Guinea).

1. Norway with 83,281km has a longer coastline than USA, which has 19,924km(incl. Alaska). Norway has approx 1/30th of the land area of USA.

2. The oldest parliament in the world is in Iceland. The Althing was founded in 930AD. The oldest continuously active parliament however is the Manx Parliament, Isle of Man, England, which was founded in circa 1000AD. As of 2008, 37% of member of the Norwegian parliament are women.

3. According to legend, the flag of Scotland dates to 832AD, making it the oldest flag in the world.



4. Despite having less population than the European union, USA has twice the energy consumption.

5. The first coast to coast drive in America was made in 1903 by Dr. Horatio Jackson in a 20hp Winton automobile

Dolphins have to be conscious to breath so they can't go into a full, deep sleep (they would suffocate). Dolphins let one half of their brain sleep at a time.

A dolphin brain weighs 3.5 pounds. A human brain weighs about three pounds.

hi did you know how long a piece of string is from end to :)end daisy

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and then sinking to the bottom

if you throw a cat from the window of a high rise block after swinging it around briskly by its tail it will land on its feet

Wow, Nat! That IS a useless fact, considering that in the world I live in, no one would ever, ever, ever do that. *closes eyes and plugs up ears* Lalalalala lalalalalalala lalalalalalalala lalalalalalalalalala lalalalalalalalala

Guess I should contribute a useless fact of my own... *thinks hard* Damn it, a philosophy grad-school dropout should be able to come up with any number of useless facts...

Oh! How about this one? Heraclitus the Obscure of Ephesus, one of the greatest and weirdest pre-Socratic thinkers (in my reckoning), died of edema (or oedema, for Nat), after a day of unsuccessful self-treatment including slathering himself with cow shit and lying in the sunlight.

Historical facts count! Even if they may at their core be merely literary facts...

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather to make a year's worth of footballs. (So why do they call them "pigskins"? )

Haha Ana, I had to work in Vernal for about two wks once. Dreary place but lots of dinosaur remains they told me.

Here in Lotusland you can see the Sunset Twice in one day. Start on the beach, See the Sunset, The Drive up to the viewing area of one of the local mountains, To see it again.

You need

1.A Car.
2.Good weather in Lotusland (It rains a lot here)
3.Good Traffic on the Sunny Day (Traffic can suck here)
4.You must really love the Sunset.

Months that begin on Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th

Mercury is the only liquid that doesn't get anything wet.