Showing posts with label facts. Show all posts
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Friday Follow and Weird Facts

I have my Anatomy OSCE on Monday, so true to form I'm procrastinating. Here are some weird facts I read instead of studying....


-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (lucky pig)
-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
-A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-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.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
-More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
-Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
-Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
-If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. (sorry Robyn)
-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.