Wednesday, 14 February 2007

25 Completely useless facts




  1. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

  2. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

  3. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off

  4. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

  5. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin

  6. On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute

  7. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes

  8. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue

  9. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"

  10. The electric chair was invented by a dentist

  11. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

  12. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match

  13. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

  14. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

  15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

  16. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes

  17. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

  18. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure

  19. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20

  20. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

  21. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

  22. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself

  23. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate

  24. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher

  25. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

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