PC Technician brings you strange biology facts

       FASCINATING FACTS FROM BIOLOGY
                  
  
     
  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would  have
  produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee. (Hardly
  seems  worth it.)
 
  A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
  (In my next life I want to be pig.)
 
  Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
  (Still not over that pig thing.)
 
  Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
  (Is that why Flipper is always smiling? And why isn't the pig
  included in this list?  Maybe 30 minute orgasms aren't as fun as I
  imagine...)
 
  On average, people fear spiders more then they do death.
 
  The strongest  muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm......)
 
  A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
 
 

  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 the gov't pay for this
  research?)
 
  Polar bears are left handed.
  (Who knew? Who cares? Did the gov't pay for this too?  Probably...)
 
  The flea can jump 350 times its body length.  That's like a human
  jumping the length of a football field.
 
  A cockroach will live 9 days without its head before it starves to
  death.
 
  The male praying mantis cannot copulate while it's head is attached
  to its body. The  female initiates sex by ripping the male's head
  off.  (Hi, honey. I'm  home. What the...?)
 
  Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
  (In my next life I still want to be a pig.
  Quality over quantity, you  know?)
 
  Butterflies taste with their feet. (Oh, jeez!)
 
  Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
 
  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 this too.) 
 
  It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
 
  One human hair can support 6.6 pounds.
 
  The average man's penis is two times the length of his thumb.
 
  Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
 
  A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
 
  There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
 
  Women blink twice as often as men.
 
  The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
 
  Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
 
  If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
 
  Women Will be finished reading this by now.  
  And Men Are still busy checking their thumbs.  
 
 
 

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