Disturbing Facts; Although a Major League Baseball game typically lasts around three hours, on average there are around 10 minutes of actual play-time if you count pitches being thrown and balls in play. It takes around 3,000 cows to supply enough leather for a full season's worth of NFL footballs. In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because they are highly social, and it's considered animal abuse to only have one. Pooping too hard will kill you; About one in every 5,000 babies is born with a blocked or missing butt hole. This is a condition known as "imperforate anus" and generally requires surgery to create the opening. Every minute the human body sheds over 30,000 dead skin cells. John Steinbeck's original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by his dog, Toby. The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed more than 13,500 homes and displaced more than 80,000 people, but amazingly only caused 6 deaths. The book Ender's Game was primarily written as a setup book so that the author, Orson Scott Card, could write the book he really wanted to write: Speaker for the Dead. As it turns out, Ender's Game became wildly popular while Speaker for the Dead has only been read by a fraction of as many people. The pistol shrimp can create a bubble underwater that can get as hot as 4800 degrees Celsius, which is on the same magnitude as the heat on the surface of the sun (5600 degrees Celsisus).