Really useless info.

[canadalad]

100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

 

90% of New York City cabbies are recent immigrants.

 

35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married or steady.

 

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116.

 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

It is physically impossible for a person to lick his elbow.

 

80% of people reading this will try to lick their elbow.

 

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks more than a half-inch each year, because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would be stored in the building.

 

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

 

Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

 

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

 

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

 

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

 

The shortest complete sentence in the English language is, "Go."

 

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7' 2" tall, and due to the dynamics of her physical makeup, she would have to walk on all fours.

 

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

 

Americans eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

 

There are 336 dimples in a standard golf ball.

 

The average person's hair grows 590 inches in their lifetime.

 

There are 500,000 more cars than people in Los Angeles, California.

 

A typical pencil contains enough carbon to draw a line 35 miles long, and can write about 45,000 words.

 

Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.

 

The only word that is spelled the same way in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese is Taxi.

 

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

 

Dentists recommend toothbrushes be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

 

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

 

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

 

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 6 times.

 

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

 

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

 

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are at least fifty years old.

 

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

 

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

 

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

 

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987, by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

 

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's, Born in the USA.

 

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at keeping you awake.

 

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company had when it started.

 

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

 

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

 

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

 

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

 

Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.

 

When Michael Jordan was at his peek, he made more money from Nike annually than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

 

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, the internal pressure can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck, causing you to die.

 

If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

 

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

 

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just did not like being seen wearing them in public.

 

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

 

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

 

Pearls will melt in vinegar.

 

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

 

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

 

If the population of China jogged past you in single file, the line would never end because of the reproduction rate.

 

The first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word criminal, was Richard Milhouse Nixon. The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

 

The Volkswagen Beetle has been produced more than any other car.

 

If you yell for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

 

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, you will have produced enough gas to equal the energy of an atomic bomb.

 

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

 

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

 

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

 

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

 

It takes approximately 70 pieces of wood to make a violin.

 

There are 18 different animal cracker shapes.

 

Thirty percent of all potatoes end up as French fries.

 

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

 

It takes nine minutes for a single snowflake to drop 1000 feet.

 

More than half the world's population has never made or received a telephone call.

 

A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.

 

The average adult spends 77 minutes per day eating.

 

Approximately 150 people are killed each year by falling coconuts; more than are killed by sharks.

 

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

 

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

 

In 1978, Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica.

 

In 1896, Walter Arnold was the first person to receive a speeding ticket; he was driving at approximately 4 mph.

 

The dot that appears over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

 

The phrase "Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride," originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash in 1924.

 

There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

 

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.

 

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.

 

There are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame.

 

The first letter Vanna White ever turned on the game show Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."

 

The name "Muppet" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word "marionette" and "puppet."

 

In a game of five card poker, there are 2,598,960 possible hands from a single deck of cards.

 

The song with the longest title is "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues," written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke.

 

A fresh egg will sink in water, but a stale one won't.

 

Buffalo wings, got their name from the spicy chicken wings that originated in Buffalo, New York.

 

Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States.

 

The banana is not a fruit but a berry; it does not grow on a tree, but on the world's largest herb; it is a member of the lily family.

 

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

 

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

 

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

 

The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.

 

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.

 

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

 

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

 

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

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.

 

60 Minutes is the only show on CBS that has no theme song.

 

Half of all Americans live with 50 miles of their birthplace.

 

The most popular name for a boat is Obsession.

 

If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to get to one thousand to find the letter "A".

 

Bullet Proof Vests, Fire Escapes, Wind Shield Wipers and Laser Pointers were all invented by women.

 

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

 

There are more collect calls on Father's day than any other day of the year.

 

Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

 

40% of people snoop through your medicine cabinet at a party.

 

Shakespeare invented the words, 'assassination', and 'bump'.

 

You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.

 

The toughest tongue twister in the English language is, "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."

 

The name of all the continents end with their starting letter.

 

Coca-Cola was originally green.

 

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents an historical king: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

[Torneyboy]

If the population of China jogged past you in single file, the line would never end because of the reproduction rate.

 

 

Scary

[Mekong]

How can they reproduce if they are jogging?

[Flashermac]

<< The name of all the continents end with their starting letter. >>

 

North America? South America?

 

 

<< The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000. >>

 

Lots of folks skipping ropes!

 

<< Marilyn Monroe had six toes. >>

 

On both feet or just one?

 

<< Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. >>

 

And it's worth about as much right now!

 

 

 

[Torneyboy]

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