26-11-2010, 10:52 AM
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Facts of Life
1. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.(Don't try this at home...maybe at work?)
2. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmmmmm........)
3. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
(If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
4. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
(Who buys the drink to research this?)
5. Polar bears are left handed.
( How'd they find out, did they ask them?)
6. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)
7. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
(It's like a human jumping the length of a football field)
8. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the....)
9. Butterflies taste with their feet.
(That's almost as bad as catfish)
10. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
(I know some people like that.)
11. Starfish don't have brains.
(I know some people like that too.)
12.No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
(Why would you want to?)
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