Fascinating Facts and Trivia

There are loads of long words in the dictionary but the longest is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis and of course floccinoccinihilipilification.

The original comic book Superman could leap tall buildings in a single bound. But then he had to come right back down to Earth—because he didn't fly.

It wasn't until the 1940s, when animators for a new animated series decided it would be too difficult to routinely draw him bending his knees, that it was decided that Superman could take off into the air.

Readers got to see smooth animation, and a superhero gained a new power.

Multiple skeletons were found in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's London home?

The bones were discovered during a 1998 renovation of the house and were identified as being from nearly a dozen people, including six children.

"The most plausible explanation is not mass murder, but an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin's young friend and protege, William Hewson," wrote The Guardian.

That's not to say there wasn't any funny business going on. "The resurrection men could deliver bodies stolen from graveyards to the Thames wharf at the bottom of the street, while there was a weekly public execution at the gallows on the other side of the garden wall."

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

“Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.

14% of Americans have skinny-dipped with a member of the opposite sex at least once.

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime.

Here's something that puzzles me. Men go absolutely ape to see a hot model or any woman for that matter spreading herself wide and stick various things inside herself including bizarre things like a bottle or in the most extreme cases a small football(true that) but here's the thing-that self-same orifice when it delivers the head of a baby can send those men keeling over like a sapling in a hurricane-funny old world innit!

North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.

The Dragon's Breath chili pepper is so hot it's downright deadly.

If you ate one, it could potentially cause a type of anaphylactic shock, burning the airways and closing them up.

Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

"Venus observa" is the technical term for the "missionary position."

Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.

If you watch a squirrel long enough it will either rape or be raped