Mandy's Useless Info

Here's my latest stuff: 01/07/2002

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

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)

If you farted 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.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

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.

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.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Starfish have no brains.

Polar bears are left-handed.

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

Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazydog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =12,345,678,987,654,321

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

Mayflies are born with out moutparts or a digestive system.

є The human head weighs 8 pounds

є The average penis is 6 inches, the average vaginal capacity is 8 inches. Therefore, there are two million inches of unused space in New York City. Compliments of пєpe Ha├

є 2 out of 3 people believe communication is the most important key to a good relationship, but at the same time 2 out of 3 people believe in ESP. Submitted by Wetпog

є On average, a person swallows 30 spiders per year in their sleep. Submitted by Snowman

є If people had the jumping capacity of a grasshopper, we could jump to the top of a skyscraper in a single leap. Compliments of Snowman

є US President Hoover was born in a women's restroom. Submitted by Snowman

є The average cd cost 75 cents to make. By DoPe HaT Jed

є A duck's quack doesn't echo. - CiCi

є The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "Uncopyrightable." - CiCi

є Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards. - CiCi

є Camel's milk doesn't curdle. - CiCi

є All porcupines float in water. - CiCi

є There are coffee flavored PEZ. - CiCi

є Non-dairy creamer is flammable. -CiCi

є Cats don't purr because they're happy, they purr so that their babies can find them when they're still too small to see. -Mandy's dad

є Doctors don't put you to sleep during brain surgery. -Cammi

є The average computer costs about $12 to make. - Cyanics

є The human body is only worth $8 in real chemical values. - Cyanics

є Walnuts get suntans. - Cyanics

є In 1932, the winter was so cold that Niagra Falls froze solid. - Cyanics

є There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstone vitamins. - Cyanics

є Oral sex is illegal in Utah... as well as anal sex. - Cyanics

є 95% of all men masturbate- the other 5% don't have hands. - HeadBanger16

є Snakes have two penises, and sex lasts 12 hours. -Courtesy of my brother, Pimpsilky

є If you put red potatoes next to white potatoes, the white ones will turn red. -Taryn

є In Maryland, it's illegal to have sex with the woman on top, and it's illegal for a man to go down on a woman. -Jester

є The first president to be born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter. -WNCI, 97.9, local radio station

є Rubber bands last longer when they are refridgerated. - Justin

є Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. - Justin

є The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has all of them memorized. - Justin

є There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. - Justin

є The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. - Justin

є A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. - Justin

є There are more cickens than people in the world. - Justin

є Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. - Justin

є The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." - Justin

є On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American one. - Justin

є All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. - Justin

є No words in the English language rhyme with "month," "orange," "silver," or "purple." - Justin

є "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." - Justin

є All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5.00 bill. - Justin

є Almonds are part of the peach family. - Justin

є Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. - Justin

є Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. - Justin

є There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horendous, stupendous, and hazardous. - Justin

є Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." - Justin

є A cat has 32 muscles in its ear. - Justin

є An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. - Justin

є Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. - Justin

є In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. - Justin

є Al Capone's business cards said he was a used furniture salesman. - Justin

є The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. - Justin

є When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play a football game at home, the stadium becomes the state's 3rd largest city. - Justin

є The characters Bert and Ernie on "Sesame Street" were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the cab driver in "It's a Wonderful Life." - Justin

є A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. - Justin

є A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. - Justin

є A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. - Justin

є On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in a "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. - Justin

є It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. - Justin

є The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. - Justin

є In England, the Speaker of the House isn't allowed to speak. - Justin

є The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." - Justin

є The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. - Justin

є Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. - Justin

є John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. - Justin

є The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. - Justin

є You can catch carp on cigarette butts. - Pimpsilky

є If you cross a penis and a potato, you get a dictator. - Robertko

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