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    Useless facts

    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 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!)
    The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
    (O.M.G.!)
    A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
    (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
    A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
    (I'm still not over the pig.)
    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
    (Don't try this at home,maybe at work)
    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....?!")
    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?)
    The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
    (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
    Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
    (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
    Butterflies taste with their feet.
    (Something I always wanted to know.)
    The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
    (Hmmmmmm......)
    Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
    (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
    Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
    (okay, so that would be a good thing)
    A cat's urine glows under a black light.
    (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
    An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
    ( I know some people like that.)
    Starfish have no brains
    (I know some people like that too.)
    Polar bears are left-handed.
    (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
    Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
    (What about that pig??)
    Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strangeirish
    If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
    Now, I know why my house is the only one standing 'round here.

    "Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
    (What about that pig??)"

    I'll ask her next time we meet up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sirhamish
    Now, I know why my house is the only one standing 'round here.

    "Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
    (What about that pig??)"

    I'll ask her next time we meet up.
    Oh,oh, Greentribe won't like that at all at all at all.
    Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strangeirish
    Oh,oh, Greentribe won't like that at all at all at all.
    Ah stop that - you're dropping me in it now.

    Besides, I have it on good authority that Queen Juliana is a purty gurl.

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    strangeirish

    You get my vote for Nerd of the Year on the Foot.ie website

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    Well done strageirish.

    By far the strangest thing there is this term
    Quote Originally Posted by strangeirish
    black light.
    How does that work?
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    Quote Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
    strangeirish

    You get my vote for Nerd of the Year on the Foot.ie website
    LOL....If you only knew me.....


    Risteard Well done strageirish.
    By far the strangest thing there is this term
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by strangeirish
    black light.
    How does that work?
    Black lights look just like normal fluorescent lamps or incandescent light bulbs, but they do something completely different. Switch one on, and white clothes, teeth, apparently cat's urine and various other things glow in the dark, while the bulb itself only emits faint purple light. Not a lot of people know that.
    Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strangeirish
    Black lights look just like normal fluorescent lamps or incandescent light bulbs, but they do something completely different. Switch one on, and white clothes, teeth, apparently cat's urine and various other things glow in the dark, while the bulb itself only emits faint purple light. Not a lot of people know that.
    I think it's also called UV (ultra-violet) light and you sometimes see it in the toilets of classy establishments.

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    Got that in one of those chain mails before.....it's good though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bald Student
    I think it's also called UV (ultra-violet) light and you sometimes see it in the toilets of classy establishments.
    That would be correct Bald Student.
    Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strangeirish
    LOL....If you only knew me.....
    True, true,

    strangeirish - a bad influence on people like me.

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    More usless information on Black Light :They are used in Toilets in Classy Establishment's so that Junkies can't see their veins and therfore cant bang up !

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    Heres 2 for you:
    Crocadiles can walk backwards, but alligators can't.
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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.
    That's a mighty fine football field. I'm pretty average height, but 350 times my body length is nearly 700 yards.

    There is a fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca) whose sperm is 20 times it's own body length (about 10000 times that of a human one) Imagine that in human terms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noby
    There is a fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca) whose sperm is 20 times it's own body length (about 10000 times that of a human one) Imagine that in human terms.


    I am scared enough of the normal sized ones.......

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    You'd have to use a bin-liner as a condom.
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    good useless facts but has anyone asked how they timed the pigs orgasm, was this the male or the female pig. Or did the clock stop when he lit up his cigar??

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    Quote Originally Posted by noby
    There is a fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca) whose sperm is 20 times its own body length (about 10000 times that of a human one) Imagine that in human terms.
    Ummm...and where would he be storing this sperm when it's not in use?! Does he stow it safely in the overhead compartment of something!

    And how does the sperm then shrink to form the babby fly?!

    That said, google backs it up!

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    Quote Originally Posted by strangeirish
    The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
    [Nerd Alert]That's not as amazing as it sounds. It's the same reason as ants are able to carry multiples of their body weight. A muscle's strength is proportional to it's length where as weight is proporional to volume, which is proportional to length cubed. So, as things get smaller they get proportionally stronger. To take the other extreme, elephants can't jump and can only lift a small fraction of their weight. That's why we don't need to be afraid of giants. [/Nerd Alert]

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