Science

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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

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

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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

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.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste their own feet.

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.

Polar bears are left-handed.

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

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001

Answers

Frightening. I think the bomb squad should be called in to the Straabeery forthwith.

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

But let's go back to that pig shall we?

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

That snow storm must have gotten to you! Run out of good books? (But I didn't know the one about the cat's pee mind. Not sure I'm going to investigate.) There is clearly a question to be answered: If humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure then what the hell are the lions up to in their happy state of affairs?

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

Now I know why wor las calls me a pig!

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001

LOL, sounder. That was actually emailed to me from someone in Winnipeg. Not sure what that says about Canadians....

Running away before PiC sees that. ;-))

-- Anonymous, March 07, 2001



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