Sloths, light, and electricity
Sloths are capable of swiping through steel soled boots with ease. Although normally as slow as a spack on morphine, they can produce sudden bursts of speed. Don't f*ck with the sloths!

In 2003, scientists managed to create a material dense enough to stop light mid-way through it, allowing them to observe static light.

There is a difference of 100 volts between your head and your feet.
(youthink, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:31, Reply)

useless info
sorry if someone else got this first and i'm just too lazy to check,,, the word posh stems from the labels put on luggage for people who had enough money to pay for cabins close to the land side of disembarking and arriving ships i.e. Port Out Starboard Home P.O.S.H.
(alwaysallways, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:28, Reply)

Maybe a bit too much (sexual) information
Actual amount of semen per ejaculation: 1-2 teaspoons

Average number of times a man will ejaculate in his lifetime: 7,200

Average # of times he will ejaculate from masturbation: 2,000

Average total amount of lifetime ejaculate: 14 gallons


Now you have a taster of them, click read more for the rest.


Average amount of water it takes to fill a bathtub: 35 gallons

Average speed of ejaculation: 28 miles per hour

Average speed of a city bus: 25 miles per hour

Average # of calories in a teaspoon of semen: 7

Average # of calories in a can of Dr. Pepper: 150

Average length of penis when not erect: 3.5 inches

Average length when erect: 5.1

Smallest natural penis recorded: 5/8 of an inch

Largest natural penis recorded: 11 inches

Largest penis in the animal kingdom: 11 feet (blue whale)

Height from court floor to the rim of a basketball hoop: 10 feet

Most arousing time of day/season for a man: early morning/fall

Best ways to improve sexual function: quit smoking, start exercising, lose weight.

Foods that improve sex life: oysters, lean meat, seafood, whole grains, wheat germ, chicken fingers from Erie dining hall

Percent of men who say they masturbate: 60%

Percent of men who say they masturbate at least once a day: 54%

Percent of men who say they feel guilty masturbating that often: 41%

Amount of time needed for a man to regain erection: from 2 min to 2weeks Average # of erections per day for a man: 11

Average # of erections during the night: 9

Time it takes an average person to complete a marathon: 4 hours

Sperm life: 2 1/2 months (from development to ejaculation)

Cost of a year's supply of condoms: $100

Thickness of the average condom: .07 mm

Thickness of super-thin condoms: .05 mm

In general, the taste of a man's semen varies with his diet. Some say that the alkaline-based foods (fish and some meats) produce a buttery or fishy taste. Dairy products can create a foul taste; the taste of semen after eating asparagus is said to be the foulest. ACIDIC FRUITS AND ALCOHOL (EXCEPT PROCESSED LIQUORS) GIVE IT A PLEASANT AND SUGARY TASTE. Examples:
oranges, mangos, kiwi, lemons, grapefruit, limes, Labatt Blue, Honey Brown, etc. drinking a Corona with lime is double the fun)

Odors that increase blood flow to the penis: lavender, licorice, chocolate, doughnuts, pumpkin pie (happy thanksgiving!)

Yes, the penis does shrink in cold water

It is common for men to wake up with 'morning wood', a name for an a.m. erection

Blue balls, or the term a man uses when he says his balls will explode if he doesn't have sex, is totally false
(mrtinybrain, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:28, Reply)

townie/chav/ned slang
when they say "blapsed" as in "im gunno blaps u" (as a threat) blaps actually means to hit in ancient greek
(spike4848, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:25, Reply)

F U C K
Anthony Kiedis told me (personally. Fact!) that F U C K stands for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". It's something about ships. And log books.


:D
(The Disillusioned Starburst, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:24, Reply)

help
perhaps someone can help by supplying me with this useless information "Just what is an occasional table the rest of the time?"
(alwaysallways, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:20, Reply)

"Vagina" is
the Latin word for "Scabbard."

Which rather implies a certain violence in the act of fucking that really needn't be there. Far worse really than "cunt," (eh, uptight borgeoise daily-mail-reading puritanical canting hypocritical filth), which has a cognate in Latin "cunnus" meaning simply "wedge."

So from now on it's CUNT and not VAGINA. Got it?
(petrofski, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:19, Reply)

a banana
is not a fruit, it's a herb. or rather the bush they grow on is a herb... the banana itself is a berry.
( HexShaped remembers when this was all fields, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:17, Reply)

Ananova
gets most of its "quirky" news stories direct from internet chain letters!
(Monskervator the Monsk, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:16, Reply)

The alphabet
Hairy:
I believe its in the order it is (i.e. a, b, c, d) based on the Greek alphabet(alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon...)
The standard Greek alphabet (transliterated) is: a, b, g, d, e, z, e(long) th, i, k, l, m, n, ks, o, p, r, s, t, u, ph, ps, o (long). Other letters are derived from Germanic/Saxon roots I think.
( nononononoyes, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:16, Reply)

useless
contraceptives are inconcievable by the way very impressive dumbbue oops typo
(alwaysallways, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:15, Reply)

"Palac" is
the serbo-croat word for "Thumb."
(petrofski, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:11, Reply)

Not quite (see below)
The longest word in the english language is actually

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolconoconiosises

I'ts a respiratory disease common amongs miners from brathing in too much coal dust
(DumbBeau, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:11, Reply)

useless info
The longest word in the english language is (forgive spelling if wrong) FLAUKINOCHINIAHIHILIPILIFICATION
sometimes replaced with FLAUKIPOCHINIAHIHILIPILIFICATION pronounced
flocki n/pocki nia hi hilly pilly fication
it means to estimate as worthless which of course this information is
(alwaysallways, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:09, Reply)

Manowar Jellyfish...
... don't have an anus.
( holygiblets, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:08, Reply)

The brain
processes information at a rubbish 2bps.
( Fronkle99, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:05, Reply)

Humpty Dumpty...
In the nursery rhyme it doesn't mention anywhere that he's an egg - yet everybody assumes he is...
( R u f f K u t ...kicking in a nonce..., Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:05, Reply)

The monopoly thing
The reason trafalgar sq is most landed on is because you can also be sent there by a chance card. The same goes with Mayfair, but jail has a boosted chance of being landed on, and thats in rolling distance of trafalgar.
(nutsgeezer, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:58, Reply)

poomypoo...
stated that oriental women's vaginas go from left to right instead of up and down.

I can confirm this as true...they are the nicest women you will ever come across.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:56, Reply)

Sorry
"cover their noses" - they have one each.
(Hairy, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:55, Reply)

In the Gulf of Mexico
and other tropical waters, lives a type of parasitic barnacle which makes its home on a crab's shell. It eventually drills its way into the crab's brain and affects the nervous system in such a way that it eventually CONTROLS THE CRAB!

There are also worms that eat the tongues of fishes and then attach themselves to the tongue-stumps and get first dibs on their host's lunchy-snacks.
(ZugZwang refuses to update his profile., Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:54, Reply)

I got started on polar bears
Well, it's b3ta after all.

Polar bears cover their nose with their paw when hunting, so that seals are less likely to see them. No, really.
(Hairy, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:54, Reply)

My dick
I have an unusally long foreskin which women have always found fascinating and certainly resulted in my being the subject of several "curiousity fucks" with chicks who I feel might have otherwise been out of my league.

I am very proud of it indeed...as is my wife.

(edit: The "fiveskin" jokes have been done to death...!)
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:48, Reply)

Button Moon
Peter Davison (the one who was Doctor Who) wrote the Button Moon theme tune.
(RobNob, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:45, Reply)

Oh, and that thing about polar bears having hollow hairs...
...that people keep posting again, and again, and again, and again...

In 1979, the polar bears in San Diego zoo turned green; algae grew in their fur. The same thing happened last year in Singapore (great pic):

www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/25/singapore.green.bears.ap/
(Hairy, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:42, Reply)

Titanic
47 elephants and dancing bears survived the sinking of the titanic and later got jobs in New York.

Jobs as what, I dont have a clue, but next time your in NY look out for a dancing bear directing traffic
(blondie1982, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:41, Reply)

Cunt
There is no word in the English language for "cunt".

Except that one.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:41, Reply)

Vowel movement
There are only to words in the English language with all five vowels in the correct order (not counting adding things like 'ly' onto the end of them, should any cheap pedants be reading):

facetious
abstemious

As an aside, does anybody know why the alphabet is in that order anyway?
(Hairy, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:38, Reply)

one more
The inuit (natives of alaska) have over 200 words for snow.
(kingmob3, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:37, Reply)