Who wants to be a pig?
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.)
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to
squirt blood 30 feet. (Lends a whole new meaning to "a broken heart.")
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a 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 was always smiling?)
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do. (If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its own tongue out.
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...?)
(Who paid for this research??)
Polar bears are left handed. (Who knew....?)
(Is the person who found this out still "among us?")
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
That makes the catfish #1 for the animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's 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...!")
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. (Oh, geez!)
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
(Why are their feet so flat)
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
(I know some people like that.)
Starfish don't have brains.
(I know some people like that too!)
After reading all these, all I can say is..."Damn Pigs"!!!
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.)
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to
squirt blood 30 feet. (Lends a whole new meaning to "a broken heart.")
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a 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 was always smiling?)
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do. (If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its own tongue out.
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...?)
(Who paid for this research??)
Polar bears are left handed. (Who knew....?)
(Is the person who found this out still "among us?")
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
That makes the catfish #1 for the animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's 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...!")
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. (Oh, geez!)
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
(Why are their feet so flat)
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
(I know some people like that.)
Starfish don't have brains.
(I know some people like that too!)
After reading all these, all I can say is..."Damn Pigs"!!!
First, here is the deal with the tongue...
The unexplained statement that "the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body" appears frequently in lists of surprising facts, but it is difficult to find any definition of "strength" that would make this statement true. Note that the tongue consists of sixteen muscles, not one. The tongue may possibly be the strongest muscle at birth.
Next, here are the "strongest" muscles in the human body by characteristics...
Depending on what definition of "strongest" is used, many different muscles in the human body can be characterized as being the "strongest."
In ordinary parlance, muscular "strength" usually refers to the ability to exert a force on an external object—for example, lifting a weight. By this definition, the masseter or jaw muscle is the strongest. The 1992 Guinness Book of Records records the achievement of a bite strength of 975 lbf (4337 N) for two seconds. What distinguishes the masseter is not anything special about the muscle itself, but its advantage in working against a much shorter lever arm than other muscles.
If "strength" refers to the force exerted by the muscle itself, e.g., on the place where it inserts into a bone, then the strongest muscles are those with the largest cross-sectional area at their belly. This is because the tension exerted by an individual skeletal (striated) muscle fiber does not vary much, either from muscle to muscle, or with length. Each fiber can exert a force on the order of 0.3 micronewtons. By this definition, the strongest muscle of the body is usually said to be the Quadriceps femoris or the Gluteus maximus.
Again taking strength to mean only "force" (in the physicist's sense, and as contrasted with "energy" or "power"), then a shorter muscle will be stronger "pound for pound" (i.e., by weight) than a longer muscle. The uterus may be the strongest muscle by weight in the human body. At the time when an infant is delivered, the human uterus weighs about 40 oz (1.1 kg). During childbirth, the uterus exerts 25 to 100 lbf (100 to 400 N) of downward force with each contraction.
The external muscles of the eye are conspicuously large and strong in relation to the small size and weight of the eyeball. It is frequently said that they are "the strongest muscles for the job they have to do" and are sometimes claimed to be "100 times stronger than they need to be." Eye movements, however, probably do "need" to be exceptionally fast
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The unexplained statement that "the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body" appears frequently in lists of surprising facts, but it is difficult to find any definition of "strength" that would make this statement true. Note that the tongue consists of sixteen muscles, not one. The tongue may possibly be the strongest muscle at birth.
Next, here are the "strongest" muscles in the human body by characteristics...
Depending on what definition of "strongest" is used, many different muscles in the human body can be characterized as being the "strongest."
In ordinary parlance, muscular "strength" usually refers to the ability to exert a force on an external object—for example, lifting a weight. By this definition, the masseter or jaw muscle is the strongest. The 1992 Guinness Book of Records records the achievement of a bite strength of 975 lbf (4337 N) for two seconds. What distinguishes the masseter is not anything special about the muscle itself, but its advantage in working against a much shorter lever arm than other muscles.
If "strength" refers to the force exerted by the muscle itself, e.g., on the place where it inserts into a bone, then the strongest muscles are those with the largest cross-sectional area at their belly. This is because the tension exerted by an individual skeletal (striated) muscle fiber does not vary much, either from muscle to muscle, or with length. Each fiber can exert a force on the order of 0.3 micronewtons. By this definition, the strongest muscle of the body is usually said to be the Quadriceps femoris or the Gluteus maximus.
Again taking strength to mean only "force" (in the physicist's sense, and as contrasted with "energy" or "power"), then a shorter muscle will be stronger "pound for pound" (i.e., by weight) than a longer muscle. The uterus may be the strongest muscle by weight in the human body. At the time when an infant is delivered, the human uterus weighs about 40 oz (1.1 kg). During childbirth, the uterus exerts 25 to 100 lbf (100 to 400 N) of downward force with each contraction.
The external muscles of the eye are conspicuously large and strong in relation to the small size and weight of the eyeball. It is frequently said that they are "the strongest muscles for the job they have to do" and are sometimes claimed to be "100 times stronger than they need to be." Eye movements, however, probably do "need" to be exceptionally fast
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