- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
- In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
- On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes
- Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue
- No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
- A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
25 Completely useless facts
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