Useless facts for YOU!

mr.miyagi · **Useless facts for YOU! -** 11-11-2002, 10:56 PM

Well they say you learn a new thing everyday, here's some juice!
some new, some old, all Interesting but pretty Useless::

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including
their eyebrows and eyelashes

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight
and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

Polar bears are left handed

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for
animal having the most taste buds

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping
the length of a football field

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to
death

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
itsbody. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off
(I've heard of kinky sex, but......)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day

Butterflies taste with their feet

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

Starfishes haven't got brains

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses

No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar

The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

There are more chickens than people in the world

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"

On a Canadian ten dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building
is an American flag. (Bet you knew that)

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple

"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 $5.00 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

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,
"LA"

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

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

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life"

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours

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 left-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

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
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

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

Boredom is GREAT ain't it!

**heres another one -** 11-11-2002, 11:00 PM

hitler and napleon only had one NUT,(TeSTICAL,BALL,JEWEL!)

Vance · 11-11-2002, 11:07 PM

''The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses

No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses''

lol biggrin:

11-11-2002, 11:10 PM

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Innoxx · 11-11-2002, 11:11 PM

In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

3 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.

6,000 Americans a year are injured by their own bedding or bedclothes.

2/3 of all statistics are wrong.

6/5 Americans can't do fractions.

There are only two species on Earth that have sex for pleasure: humans and dolphins.

50% of Americans believe that they've either been visited by aliens or abducted. I hope not.

25 000 people a day were killed on average in WW2. After the Soviets joined 14 000 a day on average were Soviets.

About 30 people a year are killed by sharks. Millions of sharks are killed by people a year.

1/4 of our lives are spent on the toilet

toilets in austrailia flush counterclockwise.

On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."

Al Capone's brother was a town sheriff.

Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button.

Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.

Chango · 11-11-2002, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Innoxx

2/3 of all statistics are wrong.

6/5 Americans can't do fractions.

lol

11-11-2002, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Innoxx

Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.

chop:

*pukes on Anti's lap

Tebo78 · **Re: Useless facts for YOU! -** 11-11-2002, 11:41 PM

[The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping
the length of a football field]

Who did the math on this one?, LOL What kind of "football" field are we talking about?LOL.....Try SEVEN football fields if the average person is 6' tall! Kind of makes you wonder about the people brainstorming these statistics if they can't even do your basic arithmatic! hmmm???