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Here 200 Absolutely USELESS facts!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Most dust particles in your house are made from
dead skin!
No word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, and purple.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic
to carrots.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than
die in air crashes.
It is estimated that millions of trees are accidentally
planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget
where they hid them!
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows
why.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge
at a matador's waving cape no matter what color
it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can
be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian
Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually
than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.
The volume of the earth's moon is the same as
the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running
clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
right-handed. When the intruding army would climb
the stairs they would not be able to use their right
hand which was holding the sword because of the
difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed
knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed
people could never become knights because it was
assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined
from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term
used to describe early radio users who sent Morse
code (i.e., pounded their fist).
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is
"Live Free or Die."
These license plates are manufactured by prisoners
in the state prison in Concord.
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the
world, at 0.08988g/cc.
Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in
the world, at 70.6g/cc.
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for
each man woman and child in the world.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of
F.
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet
with exactly one end point is P.
The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger
than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-
whenuakitanatahu--a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra
Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula" and
can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."
Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or
older.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity,
it is possible to go slower than light and faster
than light, but it is impossible to go the speed
of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon
which is supposed to go faster than light. This
means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before
you fire it.
When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve
times around because it's the same length as a persons
head.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly
backwards.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are:
39-23-33.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in
the letters "mt".
All 50 states are listed across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during
a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one
syllable.
There are only four words in the English language
which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous,
and hazardous.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
In most advertisements, including newspapers,
the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy
Ross.
The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street
were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi
driver in "Its A Wonderful Life".
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl
in the upper right-hand corner of the "1" encased
in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front
upper right-hand corner.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About
You" theme? Why it's Paul Reiser himself.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female
gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
The name for the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up
when Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and
saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted
in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma
Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees
or less above the horizon.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
When spelt phonetically, Esso means stalled car
in Japan.
Tigers have round pupils and yellow irises (except
for the blue eyes of white tigers). Due to a retinal
adaptation that reflects light back to the retina,
the night vision of tigers is six times better than
that of humans.
In 1949, Popular Mechanics forecasted that "Computers
in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
If the Loch Ness monster exists at all, he (or
she) could only be about as big as a sixth grader.
A new study shows that there is only enough fish
in the loch to feed a 31 kg (about 67 lb) creature.
The scientists used sonar to estimate the number
of fish in the lake and came up with an annual food
supply of 93 kg. Since a cold blooded animal like
Nessie would need to eat about three times its body
weight each year, it could only weigh about 31 kg.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25
miles per year.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears
can twitch only one at a time.
The largest city in the United States with a one
syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars
is 3263827.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops
of water.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach
will explode.
Pigs can become alcoholics.
In Michigan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's
hair.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is
a star.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of
coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and
half-caused cancer in rats.
The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime
can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt
bulb for five hours.
It takes 12,000 head of cattle to produce one
pound of adrenaline.
55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry
each year.
In the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted
the weather correctly 28% of the time.
The rushing back and forth from burrows is believed
to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking.
Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock
that are physically inferior or different.
In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken
to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.
Back in 1919 the Russian transplant pioneer Serge
Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles
onto human males.
111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321.
The average human has about 20 square feet of
skin weighing about 6 pounds.
There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica,
which has a winter population of 200.
Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994
World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended
with the letters "OV."
The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator
2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter
are brothers.
Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric
in Schenectady, N.Y.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic
table of the elements.
Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than
dogs or wolves.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of
not being able to remember the word you want.
Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually
identical.
The same man who led the attack on the Alamo,
General Santa Anna, is also credited with the invention
of chewing gum.
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only
4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked
at 68 mph.
500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually
on the streets of Paris.
The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per
night on its treadmill.
A 5 ft. 5 inch tall 27-year-old woman weighing
in at 374 pounds outflabbed 1,000 competitors to
win the title of fattest person in China. Her prize
- a supply of diet food.
The average US worker toils for two hours and
47 minutes of each working day just to pay income
tax. Indeed, the average American pays more in taxes
than for food, clothing and shelter put together.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen
seconds.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change
operations per day.
It only takes a male horse 14 seconds to copulate.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A group of crows is called a murder.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Rabbits and Horses cannot vomit.
The names of all the continents end with the letter
they start with.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet
while they're still sitting on it.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her
husband doesn't give her coffee.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours
is.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because
he doesn't wear pants.
Dragonflies have a life span of only 24 hours.
Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
In L.A., U.S.A., a man may legally beat his wife
with a leather strap, as long as it is less than
2 inches wide.
1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions includes
a stripper.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The palms of your hands and the soles of your
feet cannot tan.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than
7 times.
The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is
used in many smoke detectors.
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci
in 1515.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have
a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Rennin, the enzyme obtained from the fourth stomach
of a cow and used chiefly in the manufacture of
cheese, is capable of coagulating more than 25,000
times its weight of fresh milk.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.
There is a place in Norway called "Hell".
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of
coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and
half caused cancer in rats.
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water
translated the name into Schweppes Toilet Water.
The list of ingredients that make up lipstick
include...fish scales.
Ants do not sleep.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents
an acre.
The first letters of the months July through November,
in order, spell the name JASON.
No other animal gives us more by-products than
the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons,
glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation
to name a few.
Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes
and on the back of postage stamps
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse
has both front legs in the air, the person died
in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the
air, the person died as a result of wounds received
in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
Flush toilets date back to 2000 B.C.
The flatulation from domesticated cows produce
about 30% of the methane on this planet.
Only 2 more blue moons (the saying "only once
in a blue moon" refers to the occurence of two full
moons during one calender month) are to occur between
now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March
1999.
Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical.
Chimpanzees used in AIDS vaccine studies get a
pension of more than $100,000 to pay for their care
and containment for the duration of their natural
lives. While it is possible to infect chimpanzees
with HIV, they do not appear to get AIDS.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can
live for several weeks.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys
gum!
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans
that can get leprosy.
The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was a symbolic
character for the hat makers in towns of the late
1800's. The large felt hats of the day had supports
made out of lead. The lead caused an organic form
of psychosis (brain damage) to develop in the hat
makers causing them to be declared crazy.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic, the
language of the ancient Bible, did not contain an
easy way to say "many things" and used a term which
has come down to us as 40. This means that when
the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days,"
they meant many days.
Texas was once a country.
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688
years to reach one trillion!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than
the U.S. Treasury.
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted
to dispel the superstition that Friday is an unlucky
day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship
was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S. Friday,
commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went
to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew
were ever heard of again.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, whereas, dogs
only have about 10.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
Colgate faced an obstacle marketing toothpaste
in Spanish countries. Colgate translates into the
command "go hang yourself."
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language
with three consecutive double letters.
There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there
are Canadians in Canada!
Emus cannot walk backwards.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used
in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up
into the sky.
The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for
Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest
zipper manufacturer.
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces
of cocaine.
To force a tortoises' legs from its shell to treat
it, you need to place your finger up it's bottom...
It is estimated that Americans will consume 10
million tons of Turkey on Thanksgiving day. Due
to turkey's high sulphur content, Americans will
also produce enough gas to fly a fleet of 75 Hindenbergs
from L.A. to New York in 24 hours.
Porcupines float in water!
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the
Wright brothers' first flight.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves
from blowing sand!
Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are
made up...
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne
cork than by a poisonous spider
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called
'mantles') are radioactive -- they will set of an
alarm at a nuclear reactor.
A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo
except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the
city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans
chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered
his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried
to kill it
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties
are registered blood donors.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal
that has been hit by a lightning strike.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just
one night!
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push
your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go
instantly.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed
to speak.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for
more cows."
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place
in the world where a boat can sail under a train
driving under a car driving under an airplane.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital
without a McDonalds.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in
the United States
Chevrolet tried marketing a Chevrolet Nova in
Spanish countries. It didn't sell well because NOVA
means "doesn't go" in spanish.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States
called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
Every continent has a city called Rome.
The word "sophomore" means "sophisticated moron."
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
Slugs have 4 noses!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express,
just horses!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you
from crying!
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