Animal Stuff
Bottlenose dolphins masturbate in unusual ways. They rub their penises on the backs of other males. When desperate, they masturbate on the back of a passing shark or turtle.
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.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
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.
A polar bear's skin is black, its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000...At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers...A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.
Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Thai researchers have succeeded in generating electricity from natural gas made from elephant dung.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.
A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.
You can't sleep with chickens in Clawson City, Mich.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A law in Fairbanks, Alaska, does not allow moose to have sex on city streets.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Frogs do not drink water.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail.
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Human Stuff
"Kiki" was both my and Andrea Bollier's first word.
35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
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 strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time - An adult cannot do this.
Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb...It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it...Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 3 favorite foods: frog legs, pig knuckles, and scrambled eggs.
In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.
In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Poll results: Nachos is the food most craved by mothers-to-be.
90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
A woman's sense of smell is most acute during ovulation.
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year - Most of them are children.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
More people in China speak English than in the United States.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day...Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.
The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a stoplight.
Babies have no kneecaps when they are born.
In Lebanon, people are allowed to have relations with animals, but the animals must be female.
Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line 'You can only live so long.'
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
Muslims (including morticians) are forbidden from looking at the private parts of a corpse. The naughty bits must be covered with a brick or piece of wood.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
The California DMV has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
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Human Stuff
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.
In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.
Honey is the only food that will not spoil.
In Denver, Colorado it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor.
On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
It was so cold that in the winter of 1932, Niagra Falls froze completly solid.
A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
Motorists traveling outside Salem, Oregon saw one of the "litter cleanup" signs crediting the American Nazi party. Marion County officials had no choice but to let that group into the adopt-a-road program. The $500 per sign was picked up by Oregon taxpayers.
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