Page 5 - Sex Facts

A guy pooped in a bunch of cans as an art exhibit. One sold for over EUR120k!

Yes, you read that right. Italian artist Piero Manzoni pooped in 90 tin cans in 1961 and called it “Artist’s Sh*t.” Each can weighed 30 grams and has labels in Italian, English French and German, stating:

Artist's Sh*t


Contents 30 gr net


Freshly preserved


Produced and tinned


in May 1961

This ‘exhibit’ was a success and endured for many years. For example, On May 23 2007 sold at Sotheby’s for €124,000. The cans were originally valued according to their weight in gold.

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Japan has such a groping problem, they have female-only train cars!

Street groping has a specific term in Japan (chikan), and it's so widely spread, that it affect males and females alike. There have even been movies made about the legal troubles of people who were accused of groping.

Crowded trains are a particularly hot target for gropers. A survey of Japanese high-schoolers revealed that 70% of them said they'd been groped during a train. To combat this problem, some railway companies designate special women-only passenger cars during rush hours. Other targets for groping are bicycle parking areas because people have to bend over to unlock them.

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IBMs super computer Watson learned the entire Urban Dictionary and had to be filtered because it swore too much!

Watson is an IBM Computer that became notorious for taking down even the best Jeopardy champs through an extremely advanced Artificial Intelligence technology. One problem though… it can't think like a human. That is, the language that humans use is witty, inventive and changes a lot with new words we invent every day. Words that usually get recorded on UrbanDictionary.com. Researchers thought that feeding Urban Dictionary into Watson would be a good way to help it communicate more naturally with humans. Boy were they wrong.

There was one problem with it: Watson couldn't distinguish between curse words and regular words and UrbanDictionary is full of really nasty stuff. The computer became crude, sarcastic and dirty. It even called bullsh*t to a researcher's query. Ultimately, they had to delete all of Urban Dictionary from it and put a profanity filter.

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When Spielberg first hear the theme for Jaws, he thought it was a joke!

John Williams is the legendary composer of a large number of iconic movie scores. His score for Jaws only helped increase the terror and tension that the movie conveyed. However, when he first showed it to Steven Spielberg, the director thought it was a joke! That was because the score for Jaws is notorious for being simple… it's just a few notes with no real theme behind it. In the end, he trusted Williams and the score became one of the most recognized in American cinema.

Another fun fact about the movie is that while filming the last scenes, where the boat is sunk by the shark, the actual boat was actually sinking! They had to get another boat out. You've probably heard that the mechanical shark was a giant nightmare for the production. In fact, they thought it'd be such a problem that they considered training a real live shark to act in the movie!

For more Jaws facts go here.

Myth Busted: Men DO NOT think about sex every seven seconds

Society tells us that men should always be on the prowl for casual hookups, thinking about sex every seven seconds, but according to a recent study men don’t think about sex any more than food or sleep.

According to a recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research, men think about sex on average 18.6 times a day. Overall men are found to report a greater number of personal-need-based thoughts than women, including areas such as food 18 times a day, and sleep 11 times a day.

Check out this article on Sexual double standards for how much women think about sex and for more comparisons on sex practices between genders.

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