Friday, August 7, 2009

Random Facts #22

Oregon has the most ghost towns of any state.

Only male turkeys gobble. Females make a clicking sound.

You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

The Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh about 100 pounds each.

The average life span of a taste bud is 10 days

Side by side, two thousand cells from the human body could cover about one square inch

An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day

Emus cannot walk backward.

It is estimated that the Pentagon spent $50 million on Viagra for American troops and veterans in 1999.

About 3.9 percent of all American women say they never wear underwear.

In the Netherlands, a recent trend is having tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.

Baboons cannot throw overhand.

Michael Sangster, who played in the 1960s, had tennis' fastest serve, once clocked at 154 miles per hour.

2 comments:

Goldenrod said...

Does this mean (referencing the fifth fact) that I can safely cut back on my daily meat intake? :)

Chuck said...

Better not tell the vegetarians about this!

(BTW -- Did you know that "vegetarian" is an old Indian word for "lousy hunter!")