Pointless Facts

Crockerinho

You have to be at least 58.5 inches to be an astronaut.

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. (apparently they fuse together such as the parietal, occipital of the skull).

The gases emitted from a banana or an apple can help an orange ripen. (Not sure which fruits are concerned).

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat.

The body can function without a brain.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.

There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined.

Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan, to accomodate for the fact that we have large brains during birth.

The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles per second.

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Everest is not the tallest mountain. Kauna Kea Mountain in the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater! Everest is only 8848m.

There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

Certain frogs can reguritate their stomachs, in order to clean them (with their feet).

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

In a year, your heart can beat up to 40,000,000 times!

The right lung is slightly larger than the left.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km per hour.

All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.

An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles.

It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First off would be your sight.

The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cold water weighs more than hot.

Mity1

Did you know that fish fart? And porcupines masterbate....

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

Bouchie

Another pointless fact:

The Crock has way too much time on his hands. More so than the populations of Canada and U.S. combined.

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

I concur.

Birdman Junior

Damn this stuff was pretty good...