Amazing Facts or If Not at Least They're Funny



  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) 
  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 
  • A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
  • Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Don’t try this at home, maybe at work) 
  • The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field. 
  • The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
  • Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.) 
  • Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you’re ambidextrous, do you split the difference?) 
  • Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Okay, so that is a good thing) 
  • A cat’s urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?) 
  • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 
  • Starfish have no brains 
  • Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they’ll live a lot longer)