Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jun 18, 2006 21:29:32 GMT -5
Useless Facts
1. For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
2. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
3. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
4. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
5. If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
6. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
7. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
8. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
9. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
10. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
11. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
12. There are more chickens than people in the world.
13. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
14. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
15. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
16. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
17. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
18. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
19. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
20. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
21. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
22. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
23. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
24. 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: "L.A."
25. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
26. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
27. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
28. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
29. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
30. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
31. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
32. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
33. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
34. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
35. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
36. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
37. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
38. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
39. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
40. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
41. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
42. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
43. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
44. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
45. Starfish have no brain.
46. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
47. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter "E".
48. Bulls are color blind.
49. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
50. "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
51. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
52. Lip stick contains fish scales.
53. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
54. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
55. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
56. Women blink twice as many times as men do.
57. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
58. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
59. Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
60. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
61. Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
62. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
63. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
64. The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
65. The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
66. Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!
67. A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
68. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
69. Emus can't walk backwards.
70. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
71. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
72. A group of whales is called a pod.
73. A group of geese is called a gaggle.
74. A group of owls is called a parliament.
75. A group of ravens is called a murder.
76. A group of bears is called a sleuth.
77. 12 or more cows is called a flink.
78. A baby oyster is called a spat.
79. Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
80. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
81. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
82. Pinocchio was made of pine.
83. The largest pumpkin weighed 1262 lbs.
84. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
85. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
86. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
87. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
88. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
89. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
90. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
91. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
92. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
93. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
94. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
95. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
96. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
97. There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
98. Singapore only has one train station.
99. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
100. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
101. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
102. The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
103. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
104. Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
105. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
106. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
107. Popeye was 5'6".
108. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
109. The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
110. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
111. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
112. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
113. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
114. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
115. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
116. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
117. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
118. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
119. The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
120. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
121. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
122. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
123. It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
124. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
125. A baby is born every 7 seconds.
126. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
127. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
128. Blue and white are the most common school colors.
129. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
130. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.
131. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.
132. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb
133. The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
134. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.
135. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
136. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
137. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
138. America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
139. Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
140. Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
141. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
142. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
143. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
144. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
145. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
146. India has 50 million monkeys.
147. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
148. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
149. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
150. You breathe about 10 million times a year.
151. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
152. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
153. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
154. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
155. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
156. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
157. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
158. The doorbell was invented in 1831.
159. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.
160. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
161. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
162. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
163. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
164. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
165. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
166. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
167. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
168. A squid has 10 tentacles.
169. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
170. A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
171. The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
172. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".
173. The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.
174. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
175. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
176. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
177. Napoleon was terrified of cats.
178. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
179. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
180. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
181. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
182. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
183. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
184. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
185. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
186. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
187. The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
188. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
189. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
190. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
191. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
192. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
193. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
194. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
195. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
196. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
197. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
198. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
199. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
200. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
1. For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
2. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
3. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
4. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
5. If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
6. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
7. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
8. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
9. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
10. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
11. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
12. There are more chickens than people in the world.
13. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
14. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
15. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
16. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
17. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
18. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
19. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
20. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
21. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
22. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
23. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
24. 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: "L.A."
25. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
26. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
27. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
28. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
29. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
30. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
31. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
32. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
33. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
34. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
35. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
36. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
37. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
38. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
39. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
40. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
41. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
42. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
43. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
44. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
45. Starfish have no brain.
46. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
47. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter "E".
48. Bulls are color blind.
49. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
50. "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
51. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
52. Lip stick contains fish scales.
53. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
54. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
55. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
56. Women blink twice as many times as men do.
57. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
58. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
59. Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
60. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
61. Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
62. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
63. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
64. The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
65. The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
66. Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!
67. A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
68. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
69. Emus can't walk backwards.
70. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
71. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
72. A group of whales is called a pod.
73. A group of geese is called a gaggle.
74. A group of owls is called a parliament.
75. A group of ravens is called a murder.
76. A group of bears is called a sleuth.
77. 12 or more cows is called a flink.
78. A baby oyster is called a spat.
79. Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
80. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
81. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
82. Pinocchio was made of pine.
83. The largest pumpkin weighed 1262 lbs.
84. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
85. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
86. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
87. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
88. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
89. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
90. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
91. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
92. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
93. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
94. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
95. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
96. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
97. There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
98. Singapore only has one train station.
99. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
100. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
101. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
102. The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
103. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
104. Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
105. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
106. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
107. Popeye was 5'6".
108. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
109. The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
110. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
111. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
112. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
113. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
114. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
115. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
116. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
117. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
118. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
119. The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
120. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
121. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
122. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
123. It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
124. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
125. A baby is born every 7 seconds.
126. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
127. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
128. Blue and white are the most common school colors.
129. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
130. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.
131. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.
132. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb
133. The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
134. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.
135. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
136. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
137. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
138. America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
139. Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
140. Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
141. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
142. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
143. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
144. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
145. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
146. India has 50 million monkeys.
147. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
148. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
149. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
150. You breathe about 10 million times a year.
151. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
152. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
153. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
154. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
155. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
156. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
157. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
158. The doorbell was invented in 1831.
159. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.
160. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
161. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
162. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
163. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
164. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
165. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
166. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
167. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
168. A squid has 10 tentacles.
169. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
170. A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
171. The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
172. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".
173. The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.
174. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
175. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
176. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
177. Napoleon was terrified of cats.
178. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
179. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
180. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
181. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
182. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
183. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
184. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
185. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
186. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
187. The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
188. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
189. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
190. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
191. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
192. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
193. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
194. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
195. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
196. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
197. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
198. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
199. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
200. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
