Thursday, September 22, 2005

Trivia for Squiggle #14

If you look at my last few previous posts, it's all trivia! This beast is consuming the blog!!! Perhaps I should actually think of stuff to say? hehehe... Today's issue of Trivia for Squiggle comes from a brand new source that I'm trying out and features a bunch of random facts and a good chunk of animal facts.

326. In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.

327. A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.

328. A fetus that is four months old, will becomes startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach.

329. A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.

330. A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.

331. A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

332. A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

333. A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.

334. A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.

335. After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.

336. Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.

337. A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.

338. A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

339. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.

340. A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.

341. A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour.

342. A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

343. A leech has 32 brains.

344. A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.

345. A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair and keratin.

346. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.

347. A slug has four noses.

348. A species of earthworm, "Megascolides australis," in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length.

349. A turtle can breathe through its butt..

350. An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.

"Shitty? Mom, shitty's not a bad word. Cocksucker's a bad word!"

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