• Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.
• You are more likely to be struck by lightning that to be eaten by a shark. You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.
• If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare its barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.
• When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite the gas jets properly, it is easy for you to inhale gas accidentally while trying to light it by hand. If this has happened, when the match does light, sometimes a trail of flame will blaze from the jet onto your mouth, filling your lungs with fire. Oddly enough, you would suffocate before burning to death as the flame would consume the oxygen in every breath you would take.
• The soft plastic headphones used on airplanes create a warm, moist environment in the ear canal that is ideal for breeding bacteria. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of disease-causing microbes.
• Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.
• Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction.
• In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff.
• More people working in advertising died on the job in 1996 than died while working in petroleum refining.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• A shrimp’s heart is in their head.
• People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
• In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
• More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
• Rats and horses can’t vomit.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
• The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
• If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
• In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
• Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
• City with the most Rolls Royce’s per capita: Hong Kong
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
• Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
• Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
• Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
• The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China 1910.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Stars Game.
• A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.
• The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
• In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.
• If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He’s warning you to stay out of his territory.
• 1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
• There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
• On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
• The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.

• Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Women can also smell better than men.
• Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
• Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.
• The world’s youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
• The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile national monuments.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
  • Spades – King David
  • Clubs – Alexander the Great
  • Hearts – Charlemagne
  • Diamonds – Julius Caesar
• Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• Astronauts cannot cry. In space, there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.
• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
• Percentage of Americans that want to change their bodies in some way: 75%.
• Percentage of Americans that would want to change their intelligence: 13%.
• A person who is lost and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes, provided they are made of leather.
• An igloo will stand up to modern artillery better than a concrete barricade. Additionally, they are almost invisible from the air and can’t be spotted by infrared sensors.

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Dunno about you but it hardly seems worth it!
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 8 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. Now that’s more like it!
• A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. In my next life I want to be a pig! But how’d they figure this out, and why?
• Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour. Don’t try this at home. But maybe at work..
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. Is that why Flipper was always smiling? And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn’t seem fair!
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. Hmmmmmmmmm…
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. If you’re ambidextrous do you split the difference?
• 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.
  From drinking little bottles of…? Did taxpayers pay for this research??
• Polar bears are left handed. Who knew….? Who cares? How’d they find out, ask them?
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. What can be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field. 30 minutes…can you imagine?? And why pigs?
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. Creepy.
• 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….” *Think of all the problems it would solve, girls: No post-coital snoring, wondering if he’s going to stay for breakfast, waiting for him to sneak out… and ya KNOW he hasn’t been with anyone else 🙂
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day. In my next life I still want to be a pig… quality over quantity.
• Butterflies taste with their feet. Geez, that’s almost as bad as catfish. Good thing they don’t have sex for pleasure!
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. I know some people like that.
• Starfish don’t have brains. I know some people like that too.

So what has this page taught us? Well, nothing very important. But after reading all these, all I can say is………… Lucky Pigs!

• that in the early days of sailing, a ship would never set sail on a Friday, it was believed to be bad luck???
• that in Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit?
• that a law in Oblong, Illinois makes it a crime to make love while fishing or hunting on your wedding day?
• that a law in Alexandria, Minnesota makes it illegal for a husband to make love to his wife if his breath smells like garlic, onions, or sardines?
• that a Helena, Montana law states that a woman cannot dance on a saloon table unless her clothing weighs more than three pounds, two ounces?
• that Hotel owners in Hastings, Nebraska are required by law to provide a clean, white cotton nightshirt to each guest. According to the law, no couple may have sex unless they are wearing the nightshirts?
• that the only animal besides human that can get sunburned is the pig?
• that ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water?
• that an eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it?
• that in the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees?
• that Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school?
• that proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses?
• that Formosan termites can eat though metal?