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Totally Non Work Related Tidbits !!!

 
- If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie

-Banging you head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

-Dogs have four toes on their hind feet and five on their front feet

-Butterflies taste with their feet

-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump

-Starfish don't have brains

-Polar bears are left handed

-A duck's quack does not echo; no one seems to know why

-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

-The fingerprints of a koala bear are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene

-Snails can sleep for three years without eating

-Porcupines float in water

-Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy

-Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time

-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

-The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue

-A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death

- Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

- The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
 
- Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
 
- The youngest pope was 11 years old

- In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees

- Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
 
- The one food that never spoils: honey
 
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches

- City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
 
- First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer   

- The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters

- Coca-Cola was originally green

- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910

- The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye

- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel

- A violin contains about 70 seperate pieces of wood 

- When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second