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2003-09-09 - 3:18 p.m.
More Unknown Facts (or what you learn at Water Cooler College) Curious neighbors and potential customers questioning the Orkin man on TV (“Can a cockroach really live a week with its head cut off?”) sent me off on another search for little known facts. Consider these useless bits of information: - If you yell for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you can produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. A lot of unnecessary work and wasted energy when you can buy a cuppa java in minutes at Starbuck’s!
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. This certainly must be true, we’ve all seen this demonstrated in blood spatter evidence on A&E’s American Justice.
- Yes, Virginia, a cockroach will live a week—actually, nine days--without its head before it starves to death.
- The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That’s the equivalent of me jumping the length of a football field. On a good day!
- A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. Now I understand why some folks say they’re going to be pigs in their next life!
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. This exercise plan may put Gold’s Gym and Curves out of business.
- Since elephants are the only animals that do not jump, they won’t be leaping football fields. Not even on a good day.
- Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Good thing pigs don’t, there’s not enough time in the day for them to finish their business.
- A cat's urine glows under a black light. Mavis is going to freak when I test this information for validity.
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. So, what’s the pig doing?
- When flamingos gather the group is called PAT (Process Action Team). Okay, do these pink birds also think outside the box and are they investing using the boomernomics strategy?
- A Methuselah is 8 champagne bottles. No doubt the gift presented to the pig for his noteworthy performance!
- Blame the development of the vending machine on chewing gum. The first vending machines were used to sell chewing gum in the New York Subways.
- Hawaii is the only state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate. Missouri, more specifically Kirksville, grows Methamphetamine beans.
- Coca-Cola can be used as a toilet bowl cleaner.
The following conclusion can be derived from this research: Lucky Pigs!
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