Friday 4 April 2008

Strange and Funny Facts

takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

Everyone is colourblind at birth.

The right lung is slightly larger than the left.

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

American adults have been educated for the longest time.

More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid.

The Nile catfish swim upside down.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.

In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The hairs on a polar bear are not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.

Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.

http://www.stunning-stuff.com/last-weird-news-stories.html

4 comments:

CherryPie said...

Some very interesting facts there. I am really not sure what to say about the pig!!!

Nunyaa said...

I can say nothing but laugh :-)

James Higham said...

A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

Been having the hell of a job shaving twice daily lately.

Nunyaa said...

So what does that say,?