Strange facts

Do you know that...

• A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
• The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
• The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.
• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
• A cockroach can live for up to a week without a head.
• Ants don't sleep.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplinlook-alike contest.
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the bookmost often stolen from public libraries.