Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food, and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
Pictured here is a fat cat, the diet of which has caused it terrible fur problems:
Pop duo Ike and Tina Turner have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—but Sonny and Cher have not.
Maybe this explains why:
The indentation in the middle area between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum. Ancient Greeks considered this to be one of the body’s most erogenous zones.
Below is a photo of a contemporary Greek exploring his erogenous zones. Evidently he has forgotten the lessons of his antecedents.
Close to 20 percent of all adults living in the United States have had a cockroach living in their inner ear canal. The roach enters the ear while you sleep.
Look it up...Orkin...in the Yellow Pages...do. it. now!
Fashionable ladies of the sixteenth century thought it elegant to allow their pubic hair to grow as lengthy as possible. This way, it could be braided, pomaded, and embellished with bows and ribbons.
Did you really think I was going to post THAT photo here? You have to admit, it could do double duty.
The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.
Here is the result of one who only zigged.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to female. It may go back and forth many times.
I found several examples of this phenomenon...this is the best:
During the height of the Y2K panic in 1999, the U.S. Federal Reserve released $200 billion to defend American banks from a mass cash withdrawal spurred by apocalyptic terror of computer crashes.
We have nothing to fear but broken money printing presses.
Residents of Hawaii outlive residents of all other states. Louisianans are the most prone in the United States to die an early death.
Due to frequent attacks by these creatures, maybe?
Elephants sleep only 2 hours a day and can remain standing after they die.
There is also a trivia fact about elephant farts. That was too disgusting. So here is a photo that could be any of these...a sleeping elephant...a dead elephant...or, a farting elephant. Your choice.
While technically the following is not a trivia fact, I included it because...well...I just like like the photo. My apologies to our Brit friends out there.
