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  • 03-08-2001 11:29am
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    Registered Users Posts: 568 ✭✭✭


    Again sorry this is old and may have been posted before......

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

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

    The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.

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

    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 - (nice job).
    You guessed it - pubic hair

    Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.

    Henry II was murdered by his homosexual lover, who pushed a red hot poker
    0.5 metres up his rectum.

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

    A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had safaried 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...

    Enjoy your lunch.



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