1. Men fart an average of 17 times a
day, and women fart an average of 9 times a day.
2. If you fart constantly for 6
years, 9 months and 23 days you would produce enough gas to explode an atomic
bomb.
3. Humans are only second to cats
for having the dirtiest mouths.
4. It takes about 40 muscles to
smile, but only 4 to pull the trigger of a decent rifle.
5. Beard hair grows at twice its
usual rate when you're in a plane.
6. You use more calories eating
celery than there are in celery itself.
7. More than 2,500 left handed people
are killed every year from using right handed products.
8. Semen is one of the most
fattening substances known to man.
9. An average of 76 people a year
die playing twister, and about 23 of which are through playing the nude
version!
10. Linda McCartney has sold more
vegetarian ready-made meals than Paul has sold records.
11. In the course of the 18 year run
of Cats on broadway, 3,247 lbs of yak hair was used for wigs.
12. The shortest war in history was
between England and Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
13. 65 people become $millionaires
every day.
14. The average human will eat one
pound of insects in their lifetime.
15. You are more likely to be killed
by a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
16. By the time a person is 18, they
would have spent 12,000 hours in school, but 14,000 hours watching television.
17. Woman blink nearly twice as much
as men.
18. Humans share one third of their
DNA with lettuce!
19. You could comfortably fit the
entire population of the planet into a cube with sides 1km long.
20. Apporximately 69% of all
Internet content consists of pornographic material.
21. Porn sites generated $970
million in revenue in 1999.
22. Charlie Chaplin once came third
in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.
23. Every 20 minutes a hapless
person treads on a land mine.
24.The average adult falls asleep
seven minutes after turning out the light.
25. 6,000 new computer viruses are
released every month.
26. Over one trillion matches were
being produced every year at the beginning of the last century.
27. Elvis Presley had a twin
brother.
28. Zeuxis a Greek painter in the
5th Centrury BC laughed hismself to death while looking at one of his
paintings.
29. A Roman leap year had the same
number of days as ordinary years but January 23rd lasted for 48 hours.
30. After being decapitated a human
can still see for 20 seconds! (Not sure how 'they' worked this one out!).
31. Winners at the 2001 Ig-Nobel
Prize ceremony for eccentric researchers, inventors and scientists include an
American who claims to have invented anti-flatulence underwear, a Lithuanian
who set up a theme park dedicated to Stalin, and two Indians who discovered
that nose-picking is commonplace.
32. Right-handed people live on
average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
33. Human stomachs produce a new
layer of mucus every 2 weeks to stop it digesting itself.
34. Humans are the only animals to
sleep on their backs.
35. More boys than girls are born
during the day, but more girls are born at night.
36. Julio Iglesias once had five
gallons of water flown from Miami to L.A. so he could wash his hair.
37. Clark Gable was listed on his
birth certificate as a girl.
38. Johnny Vaughan was born at the
precise moment that England scored the winning goal in the 1966 World Cup
final.
39. Bernard Manning did his National
Service in the Military Police and one of his duties was guarding Albert Speer
and Rudolf Hess in Spandau.
40. Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling
started out as a srage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
41. John Lennon shoplifted in
Holland the harmonica he used on Love Me Do.
42. Mel Gibson broke the school
record for the most strappings in a week - 27.
43. Tom Cruise and Robbie Williams
were both voted least Likely To Succeed at school.
44. Sir Winston Churchill smoked an
estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.
45. Michelangelo's cook was
illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list, which today is priceless.
46. The arhcitect who built the
Kremlin had his eyes gouged our by Iavn The Terrible so that he would never be
able to design another building like it.
47. Pirates wore earings because
they believed it improved their eyesight.
48. Cher's parents married and
divorced each other three times.
49. Mike Myers (a.k.a. Austin
Powers) is descended from William Wordsworth.
50. If you shouted for 8 years, 7
months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of
coffee.
51. Banging your head against a wall
uses a 150 calories an hour.
52. On average, a drop of Heinz
tomato ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year!
53. If you mouth the word
"colourful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love
you".
54. The only 15-letter word that can
be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
55. The fastest service in a
restaurant in the world is 13 seconds from the order to the food on the table.
56. Wayne Static (from staticX) uses
glue to stick his hair up.
57. The letter combination 'ough'
can be pronounced in nine different ways.
58. Every time you lick a stamp you
consume one tenth of a calorie.
59. Permanent marker is not actually
permanent.
60. The shortest poem ever goes
'Adam, hae'em'.
61. convert milli-inches to micro metres you must
times by 25.4
62. There is an average of 3000 ft.
of electrical wiring in every car.
63. During the battle for
Stalingrad, the German army lost more men attacking a single house defended by
sergeant Pavlov's platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov
survived the war and became a monk.
64. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were
freshman roomates at Harvard.
65. Kermit the Frog is left handed.
66. There is a city called Rome on
every continent.
67. The Earth is hit by lightning
100 times a second.
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