Random Fun Facts!

Here are some fun facts to brighten your day:

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.  [Did someone actually do this or is this a math thing?]
• The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue. [Yes, men - the tongue!]
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. [Oh, good. I don't have to go to the gym!]
• A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. [Try it! It's weird.]
• Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. [This does not surprise me.]
• Starfish don't have brains.  [Neither do politicians.]
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds (over 300 feet). [Guess the chickens in Chicken Run didn't need a plane.]
• The fingerprints of koala are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.  [Next time, blame your crime on a koala.]
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.  [I do not want to be a snail.]
• Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy and can pass it onto humans.  [Don't pick up roadkill!!]
• Porcupines float in water. 
• A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. [Guess they don't need a dating site.]
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!  [Perhaps Q-Tips doesn't make big enough cotton swabs.]
• Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.  [Don't buy Russian vodka.]
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.  [They were looking to sleep in a comfortable bed.]
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemange; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.  [Would it make a murder undetectable?]
• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.  [That's just nasty.]
• Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.  [From a 1987 study of actual cats who fell from high buildings in NYC.]
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.  [Then cooked up for dinner.]
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel. 
• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. [Noted]
• Every person has a unique tongue print. 
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.  [Wow, I can barely walk and chew gum at the same time.]
• Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the novels.
• In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".
• In the TV series I Love Lucy, Ricki Ricardo never actually said "Lucy you have some 'splaining to do".
• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. [I will never be able to watch Star Trek again.]
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
• The US Interstate road system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
• The dot over the letter 'i' and "j" is called a tittle.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.  [To cure...???]
• The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.  [Brrrrrrr]