Sunday, January 23, 2005

Disney trivia, sex trivia, and more!

According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day.

According to the folks at Disney... there were 6,469,952 spots painted on the dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians.

At the rate of about 40 painting hours per horse on the King Arthur's Carousel at Disneyland, it takes several years to refurbish all of the horses. Then the cycle starts again.

Discovering two photographs of a nude woman among the film's more than 110,000 frames, Disney Studios recalled 3.4 million copies of the kiddie home video release of The Rescuers (1977), featuring the voices of Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor.

Disney World in Orlando, Florida, covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.

Disney's Matterhorn was the first roller coaster to run on steel tubes, which made the ride smoother while allowing Disney to build longer-lasting coasters faster and cheaper.

Every plant in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, is edible. Plants in this section of the amusement park include bananas, strawberries, tomatoes, and more. Guests are more than welcome to pick their fill.

Human bones can stand to be squeezed twice as hard as granite and stretched four times as hard a concrete. Weight for weight, bone is five times as strong as steel.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is commonly believed to be the only English sentence devised to include all the letters of the alphabet. However, typesetters and designers have alternatively employed "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" or "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz."

When the Apollo 12 astronauts landed on the moon, the impact caused the moon's surface to vibrate for 55 minutes.

The brilliant colors in a hummingbird's feather are created by tiny platelets that resemble a pancake filled with air bubbles. They are called "interference colors," and are much like the shimmering colors seen in a soap bubble or in a drop of oil.

Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love, they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shiny and skin smooth.

Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.

Lovemaking can burn up those calories you piled on during that romantic dinner.

Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the body. It's more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps, and you don't need special sneakers!

Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.

The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!

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

Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.

Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

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

An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.

During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.

The average human head weighs about eight pounds.

Original name for Hostess Twinkies: Little Shortcake Fingers.

The marshmallow was named after an edible plant, the marsh mallow. Why? A jellylike gum, which can be extracted from the plant's roots, was first used as a folk medicine and as an ingredient in cough syrups. Later, confectioners used it as a firming agent in soft, puffy "marshmallow candies." What does it taste like? You'll probably never know.... today, gum arabic or gelatin is used, so there's no marsh mallow in marshmallows.

Pumice is the only rock that floats.

Stephen King's classic horror novel The Shining was inspired by John Lennon... or at least the term was. King came up with the idea of the "shining" as a description of psychic power after hearing Lennon's tune Instant Karma. King recalls: "The refrain went, 'We all shine on.' I really liked that, and used it. The book's name was originally The Shine, but somebody said: 'You can't use that because it's a pejorative word for Black.' ... So it became The Shining."

Poll results: Baby boomers now say that "old age" begins at 79.

Whale harassment is a federal offense. It's punishable by up to $10,000 in fines.

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