Stupid Facts

• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  
  
• A snail can sleep for three years.
  
  
• All polar bears are left-handed.
  
  
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  
  
• Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  
  
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
  
  
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
  
  
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  
  
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
  
  
• In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
  
  
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
  
  
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  (see Phobias)
  
  
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
  
  
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
  (see Works of Shakespeare)
  
  
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
  
  
• Starfish don't have brains.
  
  
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
  
  
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
  
  
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  
  
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.