Weird Sex Facts

In the book 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, authors John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin have assembled a fascinating compendium of trivia that serves to intrigue and amuse. For example, if you have a pizza with radius “z” and thickness “a,” its volume is pi*z*z*a. Neat, huh?

There is also some fascinating data in the book that aims not so much at the brain, but a bit lower! Here are some examples:

A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops.

Male fruit flies rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have had a successful encounter.

A female ferret will die if she doesn’t have sex for a year.

Seven Viagra tablets are sold every second.

The founder of Match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com.

The book is available on Amazon.com.