--------------------------------------------------------------------- This article is from Yahoo! Internet Life (http://www.zdnet.com/yil/). Visit this page on the Web at: http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/depts/forward/fwd000107.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- [IMAGE] [TABLE NOT SHOWN] Did you know...?: 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. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 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. 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. 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 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 animal with the most taste buds is the catfish. It has over 27,000 of them. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's equivalent to a human jumping the length of a football field. A cockroach will live nine days without its 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 male's head off. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. A cat's urine glows under a black light. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish don't have brains. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1998 ZDNet. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited. ZDNet and the ZDNet logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Inc.