Interesting Facts & Statistics

The 10 strangest facts about penises

1. The world's largest penis

The largest penis ever to be medically verified was 13.5 inches long and 6.25 inches in cirference. Just to put that in perspective, the average vagina is three to four inches deep.

2. The Lorena Bobbitt effect

When Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband's penis, it spawned a "worldwide phenomenon," says Hickman. "Across America, and from China to Peru, copycat cases began to occur, with Thailand becoming the epicenter: By the end of the millennium, over a hundred cases had been reported to Thai police, who admitted there were probably many more but the victims preferred to keep their loss to themselves." Hickman reports cases of women feeding dismembered penises to farm-life and one wife in India who attached her husband's severed member to a helium balloon.

3. Masturbation panic popularized circision

King Louis XVI of France was circised because of a too-tight foreskin, which caused the procedure to become "fashionable among the aristocracy," says Hickman. But "what made circision common among the proliferating nineteenth-century middle classes on both sides of the Atlantic was the hysteria about masturbation; removing the foreskin helped its prevention, doctors declared, and also cured bed-wetting and other conditions."

4. Penises can actually break

"Every year at least two hundred Americans, and thirty to forty Britons break their erect penis," writes Hickman. Most do so during "violent intercourse." But there are also cases where men snap their member -- indeed, Hickman notes that such incidents are accompanied by an audible crack -- by falling out of bed with an erection. The cure for a broken penis? Six weeks of bed rest with a penis splint.

5. The big-balled cheater

"Testicular research of a more sociological kind has deduced that men with large testicles are likely to be more unfaithful, the converse being true of men with small testicles," says Hickman. Thus, he advises, with tongue firmly planted in cheek: "A woman" -- or man, I would add -- "seeking a reliable long-term partner might be advised to invest in an orchidometer," a medical instrument designed for measuring balls.

6. Ejaculate: The low-calorie treat

Taste aside, semen "contains only one to seven calories," says Hickman. That's about the same as a cup of fresh spinach -- but don't expect to see ejaculate added to your Weight Watchers points system any time soon.

7. Red meat, funky spunk

Asparagus gets a bad rap for causing gnarly-tasting semen, but "red meat and dairy produce are said to result in the least pleasant flavour." I suspect an information-suppression campaign by Ruth's Chris.

8. Before there was Viagra, there were monkey balls

They didn't have Cialis ads at the turn of the century, but they did have monkey-ball transplants. In order to cure impotence, doctors began experimenting with xenotransplantation: surgically transplanting testicles from goats, chimpanzees and baboons into male humans. "Thousands of men around the world in the 1920s went under the knife for the supposed benefits of what were known as ‘monkey glands," he says. By the way, it didn't work.

9. Fetuses have erections

That's right, and ultrasound scans prove it. "So many newborn males greet the world with an erection that the sexologist William Masters in his earlier obstetric days set himself the challenge of trying to cut the umbilical cord before it happened," writes Hickman.

10. Every penis was a clitoris

That sounds like the title of a children's book, doesn't it? But, seriously, Hickman explains, "Every penis in the womb starts as a clitoris before hormones ‘sex’ the brain of the to-be male." The penis "retains the mark of its female heritage: its dark underskin and the thin ridge or seam, known as the raphe, which runs from scrotum to anus, are remnants of the fusion of the vaginal lips."

The surprising nation that loves bees more than anywhere else


This fascination may sound remarkable, but it is not unusual in Slovenia, where hives and honey are practically a religion – there are around 90,000 beekeepers in a population of just two million. eight hives per square km (in the UK, it’s just one)
World Bee Day: Slovenia Calls for UN Action to Save the Bees
Slovenia is the only member of the European Union that has protected its native bee. Slovenia, homeland of beekeepers, initiate the proposal for the proclamation of World Bee Day within the framework of the United Nations.

Bees are a critical component of a healthy ecology. Their health and presence are essential for food production and healthy agricultural economies. But bee populations are in decline for a variety of reasons, some known, others unclear. The impact is global.
We need to become more like Slovenia and take action to the save the bees.

stonecold said:

We need to become more like Slovenia and take action to the save the bees.

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You are right! No Bees, No Life!!!



Every third spoonful of food on Earth depends on bees or, more precisely, on pollination. The more the meadows are polluted and the more frequently they are mown, the smaller the number of bees. Do we even realise what that means for our future and for us? :?

I admire Slovenia so much because of this and it is shocking that more countries don't do the same. Maybe now because of Slovenia pushing this at the UN and starting a world Bee Day we can reverse this terrifying trend. Now there are two great things I know about Slovenia, the concern for bees and the home of haiducii.

Some cashew trees bear sweet fruit and the majority just tart and astringent due to its tannin content. The pulp is soft and fibrous which you can chew just to extract the juice. I tried a bottled cashew juice in Brazil once but did not like it at all. They experimented with drying them like figs or plums but because of its pronounced unfamiliar flavour, it did not appeal to enough people to warrant continued production. It is said to be rich in Vitamin C and B12 though.





I once visited a famous mutant cashew tree that spread until it covered an area of 8,500 square meters in a small town near Natal in the state of Rio Grande de Norte in Brazil.

Passion fruit is not a fruit that is usually eaten out of hand because it does not have fleshy pulp like a plum or an apple. Won’t make you passionate either. Inside its crackable waxy shell, you can instead scoop out its dark seeds protected with a thick gelatine like coating that tastes and smells like intensely concentrated guavas. Because of this attractive aroma, it is usually added to other fruit juices to give them a tropical punch wallop. Laced with overproof rum, it can give you a potent imitation Jamaican punch. Its coulis also gives an eye-catching appeal to any dessert such as cheesecake and tart.

Young or green coconut is used mostly for its refreshing sweet water, hardly for its meat which is practically not there yet.

8 Facts About Blowjobs

1. In Ancient Rome men of status could receive, not give
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It was common practice in Roman times that noble men and soldiers were on the receiving end of the BJ, while slaves and lower class women would be the ones on their knees. Interestingly, the male was seen as the active participant of the act while the woman was seen as passive, as she was the one “receiving” the penis.

Because Roman society was patriarchal and masculinity defined a person’s standing in society, it’s only fitting that blow jobs were an extension of that concept. In fact, a man looking to return the favor to his female lover was seen as a total loser.

2. In some cultures drinking sperm is said to impart virility

In multiple cultures ingesting semen is a ritualistic act. In fact, the Chinese refer to it as “yang essence,” and to achieve enlightenment it should never be wasted. Ancient Chinese sex manuals, in fact, depict various ways men would transfer their semen from their “heavenly dragon pillars” to their brains.

Even in modern times, there are tribes like the Sambia of Papua New Guinea who require young men to perform fellatio and ingest semen in order to crossover into adulthood.

3. In ancient India sucking a mango, not a banana, represented the BJ


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There is a chapter called “Auparishtaka,” AKA “oral congress,” in the Kama Sutra which gives a step by step guide for sucking the D (an act considered to bring the giver good karma).

Here’s a particularly sweet passage: “When, in the same way, he puts the half of it into his mouth, and forcibly kisses and sucks it, this is called “sucking a mangoe fruit.” Well, damn…

4. Fellatio was/is not OK according to the church

As most of us know, any sex that is not for procreation purposes, according to many religions, is taboo. In the 19th century, it was announced that those who practiced onanism aka. fellatio, petting, lesbianism, or masturbation would receive dire consequences, including caning and whipping.

The influence of the religious stance against oral sex can still be seen in modern day, as veils serve in part to maintain the mouth’s purity, according to BJ history author, Theirry Leguay.

5. Cleopatra may have serviced many, many men at once


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Legend has it that the storied Egyptian queen blew more than 100 Roman noblemen during a marathon orgy. She was given the nickname “Meriochane,” which translates to something like “someone who gapes for 10,000 men” in today’s verbiage. No hate, Cleo.

6. Oral sex resurrected an Egyptian God

This lofty the idea harkens to the Egyptian myth of Osiris, who was killed by his brother and brought back to life via his phallus being sucked by his sister. There’s more to the story, but that’s the gist. And that’s enough.

7. Blow jobs were once given as criminal punishment


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In Roman times punishment for breaking the law could be going down on the person you wronged. In fact, in the ruins of Pompeii, archaeologists uncovered graffiti that reads “Lahis fellat assibus duobus,” which translates as “Lahis gives head for half a sestence.”

8. Ancient Peruvians decorated pots with all kinds of sexual hijinks

Turns out there was a civilization that existed between 100 to 800 AD (before the Incas) in Peru who created tens of thousands of ceramics, covered in sexual acts. These dirty objects featured people, deities, skeletons, or animals in compromising positions, as well as plenty of oral and plenty of random phalluses.

These sex pots have been found mostly in high-status burials, and were often accompanied by other religious artifacts, thus are believed to have been used in rituals. If you Google “Moche Sex Pots” you will not be disappointed.

2. In some cultures drinking sperm is said to impart virility

In multiple cultures ingesting semen is a ritualistic act. In fact, the Chinese refer to it as “yang essence,” and to achieve enlightenment it should never be wasted. Ancient Chinese sex manuals, in fact, depict various ways men would transfer their semen from their “heavenly dragon pillars” to their brains.

Even in modern times, there are tribes like the Sambia of Papua New Guinea who require young men to perform fellatio and ingest semen in order to crossover into adulthood.

I could have lived in these times. That is something I like soooo much. Jizz is the essence of my life. And no drop will be wasted in our bedroom! -

And I can't understand that there are bottoms who will spit this delicious manly milk as if it would be dirt.

1. They're over-represented in athletics. Maybe you've seen a leftie pitch a baseball game or win a tennis match and wondered why left-handers seem to be so prevalent in the sports world. It's because of the element of competition, according to a study from Northwestern University. Researchers found that left-handed people are a result of the balance between cooperation and competition in human evolution. Cooperation favors same-handedness, such as for sharing tools, whereas competition favors surprise, and a left-handed person might win in a fight, the study said.

The Northwestern scientists built a mathematical model that "can predict accurately the percentage of left-handers in a group — humans, parrots, baseball players, golfers — based on the degree of cooperation and competition in the social interaction." They claim their model accurately predicted the number of left-handed athletes in baseball, boxing, hockey, fencing and table tennis — in which southpaws numbered well above 10 percent (and up to 50 percent for baseball players).

2. They're more likely to have a slender face. According to a (somewhat odd) study, people with slender lower faces are 25 percent more likely to be left-handed. Those slender-jawed folks also are more susceptible to tuberculosis, for what it's worth.

3. They're good at math. Have you ever noticed the lefties in your life are particularly quick with arithmetic? While a link between mathematical ability and left-handedness has long been rumored, a 2016 study found a "moderate, yet significant correlation" between the two. Math scores were five to 10 percent higher among lefties in a study of 2,300 students in Italy between the ages of 6 and 17 who were asked to complete simple mathematical tasks and problem-solve.

Also, a 2006 study published in the journal Neuropsychology found that left-handed people were more likely to have faster connections between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, meaning they processed information faster. Researchers said this could be a beneficial skill in areas like video games or sports.

4. They're less likely to be ' left-hemisphere dominant.' For 95 percent of right-handed humans, the left side of the brain is their dominant side and where language function is localized, reports Psychology Today. However, for lefties, only 70 percent are left-hemisphere dominant, with the remaining 30 percent distributing language ability across both sides evenly or moving it to the right side of the brain.

5. They're slightly more susceptible to allergies, migraines and some diseases. Left-handedness is a result of biological diversity, and while lefties may have the advantage in a fight, they may have disadvantages in other areas. For example, this study found that left-handed people may be predisposed to allergies earlier in life. And the New York Times reported on a series of studies that showed "left-handed people are more likely to suffer from learning disabilities, stuttering, migraine headaches and, according to the latest findings, autoimmune diseases, like ulcerative colitis, myasthenia gravis and celiac disease, in which the body attacks its own tissues."

6. They're more likely to have a sleep disorder. In a 2011 study, 100 people with periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD) were divided into left-handed and right-handed groups. Researchers found 69 percent of right-handed patients had bilateral limb movements compared with 94 percent of left-handed ones, regardless of age, sex and race.

"What we know of people who are left-handed is they tend to have a slightly different dominant brain hemisphere than right-handed people," study researcher Dawn Alita R. Hernandez, a professor of medicine at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio, told LiveScience. "So if [PLMD] is coming primarily from the cortex, we should see a difference in handedness." Previously, PLMD was thought to originate in the spine, but researchers now believe it comes from the brain.

7. They feel and express emotion differently. Going back to the brain hemispheres, a 2012 study published in the journal PLoS ONE found that lefties processed motivation on the right side of the brain, whereas right-handed people had motivation activity on the left side. This finding may affect how mood disorders are treated, where the left side of the brain is stimulated.

“Given what we show here, this treatment, which helps right-handers, may be detrimental to left-handers ― the exact opposite of what they need,” one of the study’s authors, psychologist Geoffrey Brookshire, said in a statement.

8. Gay men are more likely to be left-handed. A 2003 study evaluated large numbers of heterosexual and homosexual men and women on handedness and gender-related personality traits. Here's what they found: "Homosexual men had 82 percent greater odds of being non-right-handed than heterosexual men, a statistically significant difference, whereas homosexual women had 22 percent greater odds of being non-right-handed than heterosexual women, a nonsignificant difference."

9. They tend to drink more often. If you've heard that southpaws are more likely to be alcoholics, that's a myth. A 2011 study on the rumor published in the British Journal of Health Psychology found that left-handed people do tend to drink more often, but they aren't more prone to risky drinking.

Maybe it's because they've long been forced to adapt to a right-handed world, whether it's the frustration over using scissors or a can opener designed for a rightie or the annoyance of trying to eat or write without bumping elbows with the person next to them!

10. The answer could lie in the spinal cord.There have been several theories as to what determines our preference for handedness. Over the past several decades, researchers have agreed that it is determined in the womb. Scientists previously thought that it was genetic differences between the hemispheres of the brain that decided if a person was born right-handed or left-handed, reports Business Insider. But a 2017 study found that the answer could lie in the spinal cord.

Researchers found that even though the motor cortex in the brain and the spinal cord aren't yet connected, up until about 15 weeks the baby is growing and making movements. The baby has chosen its favorite hand that early on, leading researchers to believe it's the spinal cord, not the brain, that is the key to hand preference.

I sure missed the athletics and math advantage.

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Where do you get all these astounding knowledge? They are not only loaded with information but also definitely seminal.

When Skylab was burned up over Australia in 1979, the country fined NASA $400 for littering. It hasn't been paid.

1. Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888. Unfortunately, he found it unusable since he received more than a hundred phone calls per day from kids playing with phones.

2. FORTY is the only number in the English language which letters are in alphabetical order. In Spanish, the only number with the same property is DOS (two).

3. The Irish novelist James Joyce remarked that cuspidor is the most beautiful English word.

4. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same date and year — February 12, 1809.

5. Upon tasting a sip of champagne for the first time, it was said that Dom Pérignon remarked, “Come quickly! I am tasting stars!” However, Rod Phillips argued in A Short History of Wine (2002) that there’s no real evidence that he said that and the quotation first appeared in an advertisement during the latter part of the 19th century.


6. The French for walkie-talkie is talkie-walkie.

7. The most frequently used English letters, in order, are ETAOIN SHRDLU. This can be anagrammed to SOUTH IRELAND.

8. The first registered domain is symbolics.com (registered on March 15, 1985).

9. Facetious is the shortest English word which contains all the vowels in ascending alphabetical order.

10. Subcontinental contains all the vowels in descending alphabetical order.

11. On July 14, 1789, the day of the storming of the Bastille, Louis XVI’s diary entry was, “Nothing.”

12. The USC’s film school had rejected Steven Spielberg’s application for three times.


13. The oldest koi (named Hanako) on record lived for 226 years.

14. Unlike most members of the cat family, the Turkish Van Cats enjoy playing with water. Due to their fascination with water, they have been also called the “swimming cats”.

15. (1, 22, 41, 58): Any three of them add up to a perfect square.

16. The license plate number of Donald Duck’s car is 313.

17. What is the world’s largest desert? Sahara, right? It’s actually Antarctica.

18. Ferdinand Lop, who ran for president during the fourth French Republic, promised to eliminate poverty after 10 PM. He lost.

19. “NINETEEN AND TWO HALVES” contains 20 letters


20. Not many would be surprised by this one: Sloths have the slowest rate of metabolism of all animals.

21. 1.2096 seconds is approximately equal to 1 microfortnight.

22. Def Leppard got its name from Joe Elliot’s drawing of a leopard with no ears.

23. In 240 BC, Eratosthenes calculated the cirference of the Earth to be approximately 44,100 km. Today’s accepted value is approximately 40,075 km.

24. The study of beer and beer-making is called zythology.

25. There is a Japanese word for “death from overwork” — Karōshi (過労死).

26. Former Vatican chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth once said that doing yoga is Satanic. “It leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter,” he said.


27. What is the scientific name of the Earth’s moon? You guessed it, the “Moon”.

28. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) was the first American film that showed a toilet being flushed.

29. In Portugal, it is considered offensive to write in red ink especially in official doents.


30. Industrialist Robert Ilg built a half-size replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Niles, Illinois which was completed in 1934. The tower was named the “Leaning Tower of Niles”.

31. A pipe with a radius of 2 will have four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe with a radius of 1. This is because that the volume of a pipe is directly related to the square of its radius.

32. The official motto of the United States, “In God We Trust,” was only adopted in 1956.

33. Table can mean either “to present for consideration” and “to remove from consideration.”


34. The most expensive item sold on eBay was the Gigayahct, a luxury yacht designed by Frank Mulder. It was sold for $168 million.

35. The multi-vocal part in Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody took 84 hours to complete recording.

36. A hummingbird beats its wings 80 times per second during normal flight and it can increase it to 200 times per second during a courtship dive.


37. Upon their return from the Moon, the crews of Apollo 11 had to go through US Customs.

38. A jellyfish is made of 95 percent of water.

39. James K. Polk (11th US president) and Warren G. Harding (29th US president) were born on the same date — November 2. They were born 70 years apart (Polk – 1795 and Harding 1865).


40. Fred Yannantuono’s palindrome on “How rumors spread”:

“Idiot to idiot to idiot to idiot to idiot to idi …”

41. The amount of water contained in an inch of rain is approximately equal to the water in 10 inches of snow.

42. Oh, my! Over 70 percent of all the lawyers in the world live in the United States.

43. Art was one of the official competitions in Olympics between 1912 and 1948. The events include music, architecture, sculpture, and painting.

44. When the first telephone service was established in 1878, people said “ahoy” instead of “hello” when answering the phone.

45. The European affiliate of PETA wrote to Pet Shop Boys asking them to change their name to “Rescue Shelter Boys”.

46. Anatidaephobia is the fear of being constantly watched by a duck.


47. “Put a pillow on your fridge day” is celebrated on May 29.

48. In all the James Bond movies, Sean Connery wore a toupee. He started losing his hair at 21.

49. 32 + 42 = 52 and 33 + 43 + 53 = 63.

50. In 1977, Ken Olsen, president of Digital Equipment Corporation, stated, “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”