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!
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest - Henri David Thoreau
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