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Zoran

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Okay, many of theses were already mentioned. But I just got this email.



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 to me...)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)



The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

(Damn!)



A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)



A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Kinda creepy.)


Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour

(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)


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....?!")


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)


The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond? )



Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)





Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)



The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(no, not going there ... too easy)



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 would be 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.
( I know some people like that.)


Starfish have no brains

(I know some people like that too.)



Polar bears are left-handed.


(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)



Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)
 

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Zoran said:
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

"Hey Petunia, ya interested in the other white meat?" -Porky


Ahh, now I get it. One of the stupid songs from Ishtar was actually a prayer.

"Give me half an hour, just a half an hour"
 

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When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
 

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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W. II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

:mp5:
 

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Hmmmm. I heard that a cement truck carries nine cubic yards of cement. Hence "The whole nine yards."
 

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TonyMac said:
Hmmmm. I heard that a cement truck carries nine cubic yards of cement. Hence "The whole nine yards."

Interesting. I had always heard that "the whole 9 yards" came from medival scotland/ireland, as a grand kilt is that much material wrapped around, as opposed to the skirts they wear today.

*shrug* just what I heard.
 

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