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To share with your science teachers. No, I don't have a verifiable source for these, so please don't ask: make it an assignment for the students to find out if they're all true. Alice H. Yucht, M.L.S., B.L.P. Heritage Middle School Livingston, NJ AliceInfo@aol.com --------------------------------------- >If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, >you would have produced enough sound energy >to heat one cup of coffee. > >If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, >enough gas is produced to create the energy >of an atomic bomb. > >The human heart creates enough pressure when >it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. > >Banging your head against a wall uses 150 >calories an hour. > >Humans and dolphins are the only species >that have sex for pleasure. > >On average people fear spiders more than >they do death. > >The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. > >It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. > >You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. > >Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza >every day. > >Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming >1/10 of a calorie. > >Did you know that you are more likely to be killed >by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? > >Right-handed people live, on average, nine years >longer than left-handed people do. > >In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from >their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. > >A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. > >A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. > >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. > >Polar bears are left handed. > >The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that >makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the >most taste buds. > >The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that >is like a human jumping the length of a football field. > >A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, >before it starves to death. > >The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its >head is attached to its body. The female initiates >sex by ripping the males head off. > >Some lions mate over 50 times a day. > >Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the >only animals that can't jump. (thankfully) > >A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. > >An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. > >Starfishes haven`t got brains. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send email to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 3) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=