Some interesting facts… 

The human brain stops growing at age 18, and is 80% water. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain. The storage capacity of the human brain is about 4 terabytes (4,000 gigabytes).  (I think I got ripped off on this one)

A peanut is a legume, not nut. (Tell that to the flight attendant on the plane to Orlando last year.  She said someone on the plane had a nut allergy, and no one on the plane was allowed to eat nuts for the entire 9 hour flight, or she could die.  They wouldn’t allow me to eat peanuts, but I didn’t really want to, just in case the PATIENT didn’t know the difference between nuts and legumes EITHER.)

Honey is the only food that cannot spoil.  (I once ate a chocolate bar that was 4 years old, and it was fine, I tell you!  Fine!)

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.  (I wonder if we know this because people thought it would be witty to give him carrots all the time.)

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.  (It’s just not fair.  They’re allowed.. no EXPECTED to be fat… are pretty damned smart, if you believe the rumors, AND get 30 minute orgasms without even trying?  Without having to put on corsets and high-heeled boots?  The only thing that’s keeping me from ranting further is the whole ‘bacon’ issue.)

A blue whale gains approximately 200 pounds a day for the first seven months of its life.  (I looked this up, because I wanted to find out if they’re vegetarians.  Everybody thinks vegetarians should be skinny, but it just ain’t so.  But they do eat krill, so no-go there.  BUT!  I did find this interesting tidbit:  “It has a slim outline, especially in the winter, although it fattens in the summer.”  A.  Slim.  Outline.  I suppose everything is a matter of perspective.)

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.  (The only reason humans don’t have to do this is… nah… nevermind.)

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.  (I’d love to see this come up on an episode of CSI.)

All polar bears are left-handed.  (How do they KNOW this?  Seems fishy to me.)

The human body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels.  (Okay so we know they didn’t lay them out end-to-end, so I suspect serious math was involved here.  Either that or they just made this one up.  They might have you know.  And then it would get repeated over and over on the internet until someone replies to this saying ‘Hey I know for a FACT that one is true… I learned that at school!’  I’m not saying this one isn’t true, but I’m also saying they used to teach that the world was flat and that being left-handed [polar bear or not] meant you were demon-possessed.  We may well have 70,000 miles of blood vessels.  But believing things you know have never been accurately measured is just kinda odd.  Like.. maybe stars are only just beyond our solar system and they’re all really really small sparkly planets.  Okay I said MAYBE.  Sheesh.)

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