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amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 1:59 pm
by pryjmaty
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 produce to created 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.
(OMG!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig)

A cockroach will live 9 days without it's head before it starves to death.
(Creepy)
(I'm still not over the pig)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.
(Do not try this at home.....maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while it's head is attatched to it's body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home! What the f.....?)

The flea can jump 350 times it's 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 tastebuds.
(What could be so tasty at the bottom of a river?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life.....quality over quantity)

Butterfly's taste with their feet.
(Something I ALWAYS wanted to know)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
( :twisted: )

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
(If you are ambidexterous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that can not jump.
(I'm thinking that this is 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 it's 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, will they live longer?)

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

Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 4:48 pm
by The Fallen
And you wonder why women call men pigs?
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Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 5:16 pm
by div
LadyIvanna wrote:A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)


um... i knew that one. but then, i have three cats and a house full of blacklights.. :)

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:38 am
by Saint Ignatious
LadyIvana wrote:The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
( :twisted: )


It's even stronger if you're a trumpet player. :twisted: :wink:

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 7:15 am
by div
Saint Ignatious wrote:
LadyIvana wrote:The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
( :twisted: )


It's even stronger if you're a trumpet player. :twisted: :wink:


trumpet players are pansies... ;) thier mouthpieces are just too small.... if you want to see some real skill, low brass players are the way to go....

- the trombone playing div

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 7:36 am
by celticsmith
Saint Ignatious wrote:
LadyIvana wrote:The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
( :twisted: )


It's even stronger if you're a trumpet player. :twisted: :wink:



Not to be tooting his own horn, mind you....

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 3:26 pm
by Imp
div wrote:
Saint Ignatious wrote:
LadyIvana wrote:The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
( :twisted: )


It's even stronger if you're a trumpet player. :twisted: :wink:


trumpet players are pansies... ;) thier mouthpieces are just too small.... if you want to see some real skill, low brass players are the way to go....

- the trombone playing div



And here I understood that French Horn players had the best tongues. Never kissed one, myself... the last wind instrumentalist I've kissed played saxophone and he was quite good as I recall. I'm an oboist myself. It requires a rather tight embochure. Draw what conclusions you wish at my abilities... :twisted:

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 6:50 pm
by white_darkness
LadyIvanna wrote:Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
(If you are ambidexterous, do you split the difference?)



If I remember correctly, most of the studies that stat comes from are really old and flawed.

Now the men living less than women does have a societal basis, due to many men being reluctant to admit they're in pain and go to the doctor.

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 8:16 pm
by iblis
LadyIvanna wrote:(Honey, I'm home! What the f.....?)

Image

LadyIvanna wrote:Butterfly's taste with their feet.
(Something I ALWAYS wanted to know)

I am so thankful that we monkeys aren't built that way.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 9:37 pm
by pryjmaty
I have no doubt that alot of the statistics these things are based on are flawed. Just found it amusing. Really! Who the fuck gets paid for studying this stuff????

Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:42 am
by white_darkness
Probably done via gov't contract.

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 11:25 am
by Saint Ignatious
div wrote:
Saint Ignatious wrote:
LadyIvana wrote:The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
( :twisted: )


It's even stronger if you're a trumpet player. :twisted: :wink:


trumpet players are pansies... ;) thier mouthpieces are just too small.... if you want to see some real skill, low brass players are the way to go....

- the trombone playing div


I see where that might be true about the lips. However, when it comes to the tonuge, the trumpet player can make more precise movements.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 11:42 am
by junkie christ
LadyIvanna wrote:I have no doubt that alot of the statistics these things are based on are flawed. Just found it amusing. Really! Who the fuck gets paid for studying this stuff????

STONERS DO.

Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 12:07 pm
by realgonepaleface
WOW

Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 2:21 pm
by white_darkness
Heh, I remember reading somewhere that male dolphins had *coughs* prehensile equipment.


Ahh the potential uses...

Hey babe. Let me pick that up for you....

Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 7:28 pm
by Noritha
white_darkness wrote:Heh, I remember reading somewhere that male dolphins had *coughs* prehensile equipment.


Ahh the potential uses...

Hey babe. Let me pick that up for you....


Hon you read that at http://www.dolphinsex.org

Don't ask how I heard about that. Smile and nod. SMILE and NOD.

Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 11:40 pm
by white_darkness
You kn ow...I don't believe I've ever heard of that till you posted it.

Hmmm, what are you looking at while at home young lady?

Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 6:24 am
by doctorthoss
LadyIvanna wrote:I have no doubt that alot of the statistics these things are based on are flawed. Just found it amusing. Really! Who the fuck gets paid for studying this stuff????


Here's a link to an organization that rewards the stupidest endeavors of research each year by awarding the Ig Nobel Prizes (check out the falling coconuts grant and the legnthy paper on why beer foam breaks apart):

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-top.html

Re: amusing, useless trivia

Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 8:19 pm
by JaNell
Saint Ignatious wrote:
LadyIvana wrote:The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
( :twisted: )


It's even stronger if you're a trumpet player. :twisted: :wink:


Yes, but we flutists have that plus a hell of an embouchure... :wink:

Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 8:51 pm
by junkie christ
doctorthoss wrote:
LadyIvanna wrote:I have no doubt that alot of the statistics these things are based on are flawed. Just found it amusing. Really! Who the fuck gets paid for studying this stuff????


Here's a link to an organization that rewards the stupidest endeavors of research each year by awarding the Ig Nobel Prizes (check out the falling coconuts grant and the legnthy paper on why beer foam breaks apart):

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-top.html

LOVE THE LINK.