The sound of doors opening and closing on Star Trek is a flushing toilet.

• Archaeologists in Sweden found a 9000-year-old piece of birch resin with teeth marks in it. The sticky, robbery sap must’ve been chewed, making it the world’s oldest ever chewing gum.

• According to a survey of Americans, 2% of the people interviewed reported experiences that indicated they might have been abducted by aliens. This would mean that one in every 50 Americans had been abducted – that’s over 5 million people at the rate of 2740 per day. Skeptics point out that this would mean the skies over America must be full of hundreds of alien spaceships every night.

• Up to 60% of the solid part of your poo is not made up of food, but of bacteria from your gut.

• The first vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria around 215 B.C.E. When a coin was dropped into a slot, its weight would pull out a cork from a spigot and the machine would dispense a trickle of water.

• Elephants are among the world’s most potentially dangerous animals, capable of crushing and killing any other land animal, from rhinoceroses and lions to human beings. They kill on average of 500 people every year.

Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin.

• An average estimate is that there are approximately 75 trillion cells in the human body, that’s 75, 000, 000, 000, 000. Incredibly, there are 10 times as many bacteria cells living in your gut as there are in the rest of your whole body.

• There is a risk that mankind’s thirst for knowledge could destroy itself. Known as the “Frankenstein Effect,” our scientific and technological advances could very well prove fatal. Risk areas include nanotechnology, plagues, and AI’s.

• Every day at least one volcano is a rocking somewhere on the earth.

• The mantis shrimp is a delicacy in China, where it is used in a dish known as “pissing shrimp” because the mantis shrimp urinates itself when put in a cooking pot.

Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.

And here’s a tidbit that might keep you from moving to the state of New Jersey. It is illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing murder. As stupid as that seems it’s against the law in Louisiana to “gargle in public places”.

STUPIDITY RULES IN POLITICS