Fun FactsEvery year, parks in London alone are doused with one
million gallons of dog urine.
The germs present in human faeces can pass through up
to ten layers of toilet paper.
The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is
27feet.
Contrary to popular belief, if you swallow chewing gum
it does not stay in the gut. Usually it will pass
through the system and be excreted without incident.
However, several cases have been reported where the gum
has stuck in the rectum, causing the unfortunate
sufferer to excrete long sticky trails of gum, like a
pink spider's web.
Several well documented instances have been reported of
extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst
still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these
toilets sucked the rectum inside out.
It is possible to cough your guts up.
If your body's natural defenses failed, the bacteria in
your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally
eating you from the inside out.
What is one of the most difficult items for sewage
works to handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to
pass through most filtration systems? (Every month
Thames Water removes over a ton of this substance from
its water treatment plants, whereupon it is taken away
to a landfill site and buried).....You guessed it -
pubic hair.
Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.
Henry II was murdered by by his homosexual lover, who
pushed a red hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.
The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body
was 33 metres in length.
A woman who had recently visited South America, where
she had safaried in local rainforest, began to
experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by
headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at
first put down to tinnitis. It became so serious that
exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a
spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually
it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within
the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the
spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was
also removed...