Here are some absolutely useless but kind of funny facts that I found somewhere in my virtual travels...

• 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!)
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Let's all stay away from Mexican restaurants, shall we?)
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a pig!)
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Still not over that pig thing!)
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Was it good for you, Flipper?)
• On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmm.....)
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. (How much to send an email?)
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Oh no!!!!)
• In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. ( ouch!)
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. (And that's a good thing!)
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (Okay, who did the study on drunk ants????)
• Polar bears are left handed.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds; that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. (And they waste them on bottom feeding?)
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length -- It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (no comment!)
• 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...!!!!)
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig...quality over quantity!)
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (And again, that's a good thing!)
• A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. (NOW we'll know where that smell is coming from)
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
• Starfish haven't got brains. (So if your friend calls you a starfish...)
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorised all 158 verses.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
• John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• Typewriter is the only ten letter word you can type on the top of your keyboard.