The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. That makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

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.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Every year, parks in London alone are doused with one million gallons of dog urine.

The germs present in human feces can pass through up to ten layers of toilet paper.

The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.

Contrary to popular belief, if you swallow chewing gum it does not stay in the gut. Usually it will pass through the system and be excreted without incident.  However, several cases have been reported where the gum has stuck in the rectum, causing the unfortunate sufferer to excrete long sticky trails of gum, like a pink spider's web.

Several well documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets while still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these
toilets sucked the rectum inside out.

It is possible to cough your guts up.

If your body's natural defenses failed, the bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.

What is one of the most difficult items for sewage works to handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most filtration systems? (Every month Thames Water removes over a ton of this substance from its water treatment plants, whereupon it is taken away to a landfill site and buried).....You guessed it - pubic hair.

Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.

The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 meters in length.

A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had safaris in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by
headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down to tinnitis. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a
spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the
spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed…

Catherine the Great of Russia suffered from nymphomania.

Most people don't know that the second national city is Port Angeles, WA, designated by Abe Lincoln. That's where they would move the capital if something happened to Washington D.C.

George Washington did not take care of his teeth. He was left with one bicuspid before he had dentures made.  The dentures were not made of wood (as common myth goes). They were hippopatomus, deer, horse, and human teeth screwed into an ivory base.