So it's not Global Warming making their Lives Shorter

Polar bears are left-handed.

To see better when its Head's in the Sand

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Are we Sure its Urine or Did you Just Blame it on the Cat?

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

The Opposite of a Flea

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

I Guess those Teachers were Right to Beat it Out of People

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

I Feel Like I'm Missing Something

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Well it's a Good Thing They Mostly Fly

Butterflies taste with their feet.

When is There Even Time to Eat?

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Mhmm Tasty

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

And They Say Only Humans and Dolphins Enjoy Sex

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

I Guess There Are Worse Ways to Go

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.

An Exercise to Avoid

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

If I only had a Head

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

The Power of Your Heart, no not Love

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

Explosive Gas Problem

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

Yelling Yourself Hoarse

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

A Second Moon?

Earth may once have had two moons. a teensy second moon - spanning about 750 miles wide may have orbited Earth before it catastrophically slammed into the other one. This titanic clash may explain why the two sides of the moon are so different.

Tallest Mountain

Mount Everest? Nope, even though Mount Everest is the highest above sea level (29,029) feet high. When measured from its true base to summit, Mauna Kea takes the prize (56,00feet). The summit is only 13,680ft above sea level, but goes 16,400 ft below sea level

Holy Stalagmite!

The largest confirmed stalagmite in the world can be found in Cuba in the Cuevo San Martin Infierno. This behemoth rises 220 feet tall.

Earth's Largest Earthquake

The largest earthquake in U.S. was surprisingly not in California, but was a magnitude 9.2 in Prince William Sound, Alaska on Good Friday, March 28, 1964. On earth the largest was a 9.5 magnitude in Chile on May 22, 1960.

Moon Quakes

Moonquakes, or "earthquakes" on the moon, do occur, though they are less common and less intense than those that shake Earth. According to the USGS scientists, moonquakes seem to be related to tidal stresses associated with the varying distance between the Earth and the moon. Moonquakes also tend to occur at great depths, about midway between the lunar surface and its center.

Earth and its Surrounding Fun Facts

After quite a little bit of a delay, coming back with some Earth and astrological fun facts.

Dress as colorful as You Want

A new study has determined that sharks are indeed color blind so rather than duller colors swimmers afraid of sharks around should have decreased visual contrast in their attire.

Just One Puff won't Matter

Within minutes of the first few puffs on a cigarette, genetic damage linked to cancer is already being caused, creating "trash DNA" which reaches maximum levels just 15-30 minutes after the first cigarette.

Bacteria, the multi purpose tool

Scientists are developing a long term way of storing data over long periods of time, bacteria, one gram of bacteria could store the same amount of information as 450 2,000-gigabyte hard disks

Hold back the tears

Crying women may literally turn men off. Odorless chemical signals in a woman’s waterworks lessen any stirrings of sexual interest in a guy who whiffs her tear-stained cheeks

Earth's Highs and Lows

The highest place on earth is Mount Everest, which is 29,028 feet above sea level. The lowest point on dry land is the Dead Sea, which is 1,360 feet below sea level. And the lowest elevation of crust under water is the Mariana Trench which is 6.85 miles below sea level.

No, I'm not Crying

When you cut an onion, you break onion cells that release a sulfur gas, which goes into your eyes. This gas reacts with the water in your eyes to form sulfuric acid, which burns your eyes stimulating the production of tears.

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Slower than a Snail

The spreading ocean floor between the Americas and Europe & Africa is moving the two land masses apart at about the same speed your fingernail grows.

A Finger Points the Way

A six or seven year old's finger of a new species of hominid (Denisovans) was found in a Siberian cave, which is somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 years old. This information was determined based on its nuclear genome and indicates that modern humans inherited much more of their DNA from this minor branch of hominid then previously believed.

The Southern Ocean?

Until recently, the Antarctic Ocean was considered to be a part of the other main oceans, as it was actually formed from parts of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. In the year 2000, it was officially named the "Southern Ocean".

Brrrr it is so Cold Outside

Antarctica is colder than the north pole with an ice sheet that averages 2.5 km thick and with the lowest recorded temperature on Earth of -128.56 degrees Fahrenheit.

Jump Dumbo Jump!!!

The only mammal that cannot jump is the elephant.

Let me see those pearly whites

Volcanic ash is actually an ingredient in most toothpastes.

This rock....floats?

The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

and you thought you were clean

the human body contains 10 times more bacteria cells than it does human cells

What Kind of Volcano?

Titan, Saturn's largest moon has "cryovolcanoes" which spew a "cold lava" (a water and methane substance) which flows down the volcano and freezes. It is believed Titan has a thick ice crust floating atop a layer of water.

How deep can you go?

The farthest down an organism has been recorded of going is 2 miles below the Earth's crust.

But Sleeping in Sounds so Nice

For each hour you sleep in late on weekends it will take an extra day during the week to reset your clock and hit your circadian low point. Your body tries to increase sleep duration during the week to compensate for poor sleep quality.

You shed more than just hair

the average human sheds 40 lbs. of skin in their lifetime

What a Spectrum

A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.

I am losing my head

a cockroach can live an average of 9 days without its head

The Power of Gravity

to escape Earth's gravity a rocket needs to be traveling at least 7 miles per second

Cow Power

each domestic cow emits about 105 pounds of methane each year

So that is why I can't hear

Inbreeding in dalmatians causes 3 out of 10 to suffer from hearing disabilities

This helps I swear

wounds infested with maggots heal faster and without spread of gangrene or other infections

Life just got bigger

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth (over 2000km long)

Not so fast, you little ... raindrop

the fastest speed of a raindrop falling from the sky is 18mph...feels much faster than that when you are on a roller coaster and they are pelting you in the face doesn't it?

Does Pot really make you Happier?

Young people who use marijuana weekly have double the risk of depression later in life.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it

Crack is highly addictive, possibly even more than other forms of cocaine. Crack users are at risk for the usual effects of cocaine (dangerously elevated blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature, risk of seizure and cardiac arrest) as well as respiratory disorders, such as coughing, bleeding, shortness of breath, and lung trauma. Crack use can cause paranoia and aggressiveness.

Wine "Blows"

Pure cocaine was first extracted from the leaves of the coca plant in 1859 and was marketed in a fortified wine in France as early as 1863

Talk About a Beer Belly

Consumption of beer in the United States is about 33 gallons per person per year based on persons over the drinking age of 21 years old.

Why Can't I Remember Last Night?

Alcohol consumption causes inflammatory chemicals called Cytokins to be overproduced by our bodies. This results in memory loss, loss of focus, and sometimes pain in the head.

Is it hot in here or is it just me?

drinking lowers the body temperature rather than raising it, that feeling of warmth comes from the dilation of your capillaries that fill with warm blood

A drink is a drink is a drink

There is a cloud of alcohol in outer space that can make about 4 trillion trillion drinks. Too bad it is about 10000 light years away.

Mary Jane killed who?

it would take over 800 joints to kill an average human being...but they wouldn't die from the marijuana, it would be the carbon monoxide that kills them

They grow up so fast

Every human has spent their life as a single cell for half an hour

Earplugs, anyone?

By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore. But the sound of a snore can seem deaf ening. While snores average around 60 decibels, the noise level of normal speech, they can reach more than 80 decibels. Eighty decibels is as loud as the sound of a pneumatic drill breaking up concrete. Noise levels over 85 decibels are considered hazardous to the human ear.

Why does a mosquito bite hurt so much?

A Mosquito has forty-seven teeth. It stabs the skin with its sharp snout and saws in with  four knife tools surrounded by the 47 teeth to draw the blood.

I Can't Swim!!!

90% of people who die from hurricanes die from drowning

Talking about popping out babies

the short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days

How Powerful is Mother Nature?

Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

How't the weather up there?

An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space because the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.

Lots and lots of fuel...

A jet or turbo-jet powered aircraft uses more fuel flying at 25,000 feet than 30,000 feet. The higher it flies, the thinner the atmosphere and the less atmospheric resistance it must buck.

I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!

The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels and travel 530 miles. This is the loudest of any animal.

No more stuffy noses

Sex releases natural antihistamines that can unclog a stuffy nose

And you thought the minute man was bad

a dolphin ejaculates in less than 12 seconds

More Than Meets the Eye

Semen contains small amounts of more than thirty elements, including fructose, ascorbic acid, cholesterol, creatine, citric acid, lactic acid, nitrogen, vitamin B12, and various salts and enzymes

How big are your little guys?

The animal with the largest sperm to body ratio is the fruit fly, Drosophila bifurca.  It is 20x bigger than the flies' body.  If a man were to make sperm that big it would be as long as a blue whale.

No More Headaches

When a female orgasms she releases endorphins that can cure a headache by acting as a painkiller

Who doesn't like some alone time now and then?

The fun doesnt always have to happen when you are having sex, everyone knows you can have fun all by yourself.  There are an array of animals other than humans that have been recorded masturbating (yup thats right, some creepy scientist watched them while they were....... you know). Some examples are the male marine iguana, the male red deer along with many primates, but the big difference between primates and the first two, is the lady primates do it too!  Some examples are: the sooty mangabey (from West Africa), orangutans (which even make "sex toys" out of twigs and leaves) and the chimpanzee.  One female chimp raised in a human house was seen masturbating to pictures of naked men in a copy of Playgirl.  Any single guys out there?

and you thought you were the only one

dolphins and bonobo chimps are the only other two animals recorded to have sex for fun

Is sex worth losing your junk?

When a male honeybee mates with the queen, his genitals are left behind in the queen, this is because when he climaxes the genitals are torn from his body as he explodes.  This is a way to prevent any other males from mating with the queen, but alas all males have a hairy structure on the tip of their phallus to remove the previous male's genitalia.

Feel the Burn

30 minutes of active sex will burn about 200 calories

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa ... How Much?

There is enough sperm in 5mL of ejaculate to impregnate every woman in the United States twice.

SEX WEEK!!!

This week is going to be strictly facts about sex. Enjoy! : )

Got Milk?

The Yak is a long haired bovine found in south central Asia, Mongolia, and Russia. As bizzare as this animal is,  what it produces is even more shocking. The milk it makes is not white, but pink!

What animal do you fear the most?

You probably do not fear the most threatening, since the most dangerous creature in the world is................ the common housefly.  They transmit more diseases than any other creature, largely due to their affinity for animal waste.

Lightning

Each time lightning strikes Ozone gas is produced, strengthening the Earth's Ozone

Weird Animals

The only two animals that can breathe through their butts are sea cucumbers and sea turtles.

Human Bones

There are 206 bones in the adult human body whereas there are 300 in children

Dreams

The average human has almost 2000 dreams a year.

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