Useless Things You Need to Know
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
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If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(Oh my God!)
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A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. Creepy...
(I still want to be a pig.)
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Banging your head against a wall uses 15 calories an hour.
(Do not try this at home......maybe at work.)
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The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")
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The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes... can you imagine??)
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The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
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Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity.)
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm........)
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Right-handed people live on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
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Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
(OK, so that would be a good thing....)
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A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)
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Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)
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Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
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Wierd Factoids
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.
The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."
Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.
The Average American/Canadian drinks about 600 soda’s per year.
The average American family views television six hours each day.
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
As much as six percent of the world's population may experience sleep paralysis, the inability to move and speak for several minutes after awakening.
Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Androphobia is a fear of men.
Augustus Caesar had achluophobia—the fear of sitting in the dark.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
There are six words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum.
The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
A two hour motion picture uses 10,800 feet of film. Not including the previews and commercials.
"60 Minutes" is the only show on CBS that doesn’t have a theme song.
Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.
There are more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper family.
Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole".
The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.
Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca Cola International.
Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.
The Chinese used to open shrimp by flaying the shells with bamboo poles. Until a few years ago, in factories where dried shrimp were being prepared, "shrimp dancers" were hired to tramp on the shells with special shoes.
For decades, there's been a hard-fought and usually close battle between Coke and Pepsi in the United States...with each claiming some regional pockets of leadership. But globally it's no contest - Coca-Cola sales far outstrip sales of Pepsi-Cola internationally.
The famous Chef Wolfgang Puck chose the Italian word "Spago" as the name for his popular chain of restaurants. In Italian - spago = "String" or "Twine" - slang for spaghetti.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans eat more than 22 pounds of tomatoes every year. More than half this amount is eaten in the form of ketchup and tomato sauce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.
The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)
Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.
Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
coca cola used to be green
elephants can't jump
there is 8 insect legs in the average bar of choclate
it is physically impossible to lick your elbow
you just tryied to lick your elbow
a pigs orgasm lasts 30 minites
if you eat a dandilion you wet the bed...apparently
It is impossible to sneeze with ur eyes OPEN.
In Ancient Egypt frogs where thought to cure warts.
It is physically IMPOSSIBLE to kiss ur ass. Trust me I tryed it once...
Wasabi can be deadly if you sniff it up through your nose.
when coca cola 1st was made it had a trace of cocaine in it, that was before they made cocaine illegal
What is billed as the world's largest weather vane sits on the shores of White Lake in Montague, Michigan. It's 48 feet tall with a 26-foot wind arrow and adorned with a 14-foot replica of a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner.
The world's largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 Feet(7.3 Meters) tall, is made of sheet metal and could hold 150,000 8 ounce cups of coffee.
The Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center is the largest bowling establishment in the world. It has 252 lanes and one very tired pinsetter.
The World's Largest Catsup Bottle stands proudly next to Route 159, just south of downtown Collinsville, Illinois. This unique 170 ft. tall water tower was built in 1949 by W.E. Caldwell Company for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant. In 1995, due to the efforts of the Catsup Bottle Preservation Group, this piece of local history was saved from demolition and beautifully restored to its original appearance.
The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!
The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.
The highest wind velocity ever recorded in the United States was 231 miles per hour, on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1934.
Howard Kinsey and Mrs. R. Roark, during a game of tennis, batted the ball back and forth 2001 consecutive times.
The World's Largest yo-yo resides in the National Yo-Yo Museum in Chico, California. Named "Big Yo," the 256-pound yo-yo is an exact scale replica of a Tom Kuhn "No Jive 3 in 1 Yo-Yo." Fifty inches tall and 31.5 inches wide, the yo-yo is made of California sugar pine, Baltic birch from the former USSR, and hardrock maple. It was first launched in San Francisco on October 13, 1979.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period.
The largest web-footed bird is the albatross.
On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds!
At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
Toronto, Ontario was home to the biggest swimming pool in the world in 1925. It held 2000 swimmers, and was 300ft x 75ft. It is still in operation.
In 1968, Steve McPeak traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles on a unicycle. The trip took him six weeks, but he planned for the long bike journey. He brought an extra tire and a spare heinie.
The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it, caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed, as the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever.
Shakespeare's most talkative character is Hamlet. None of his other characters have as many lines in a single play. (Falstaff, who appears in several plays, has more lines total).
The largest school in the world is a k-12 school in the Philippines, with an enrollment of about 25,000.
France had the first supermarket in the world. It was started by relatives of the people who started the Texas Big Bear supermarket chain.
If you walked the entire length of the China's Great Wall, you would be walking farther than the distance between New York City and Miami, Florida. The wall stretches for over 1,500 miles. The driving distance between New York and Miami is just over 1,250 miles. Provided you don't get lost.
In Muddy, Illinois, the post office measures only 7½ by 10½ feet, about the size of a garden shed. If it wasn't for a sign hanging above the door stating, "U.S. Post Office, Muddy, IL., 62965," finding the tiny, wooden building could be difficult. It is believed to be one of the smallest post offices in the United States.
Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply.
The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth - about half an inch a year — is caused by the pressure exerted by two of the earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another.
The biggest hog ever recorded was a creature named Big Boy who weighed in at 1, 904 pounds.
Belgian driver Jenatzy was the first to reach a speed of over 100km/h in his electrically powered car 'La Jamais Contente' in 1899.
Never mind what you saw in the film "The Poseidon Adventure." The biggest wave on record, reported by a reliable source, was estimated to have attained a height of 112 feet. It was measured, at some distance, I hope, by a tanker traveling between Manila and San Diego in 1933. The wind was blowing at 70 mph at the time.
On December 15, 1998, the Mayer Kaplan Jewish Community Center in Skokie, Illinois attempted to set the inaugural world's record for largest number of dreidels to be spun at one time. At least 200 people were needed to set the record.
The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.
Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.
The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
Mark Wahlberg(sp?) has a 3rd nipple
-Hittler died as a virgin... (that's what i heard and i believe it)
-Aztecs used to eat a baby's flesh and drink its blood as part of a ritual
-Back in the medieval days it was believed that taking showers could cause you a disease
this one's i got from a site:
-It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
-Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze
Cambodian-Americans operate more than three-fourths of California's
approx. 2500 doughnut shops.
There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
2000 years ago the sky was red...
No im just kidding
Early Greek and Roman physicians believed the only way to grow a good crop of basil was to scatter the seeds while cursing and stomping their feet.
The Seven Deadly Sins are represented by the characters in Gilligan's Island: Gilligan, sloth; the Skipper, anger; Mr. Howell, greed; Mrs. Howell, gluttony; Ginger, lust; the Professor, pride; and Mary Ann, envy.
During the First Crusade, one band of religious hysterics who meant well but were quite desperate marched behind a goose they believed was filled with the Holy Spirit.
It's bad luck to reloop a belt if you missed it in the first place
The origin of the modern day confessional box comes from the Middle Ages. Before then, prostitutes who visited priests to confess their sins were often sexually assaulted.
The human aura cannot be photographed through polyester.
In ancient Egypt, when a cat died, it was manadatory for its owner to shave off his eyebrows to show his grief.
According to Matt Groening, a dog with seven toes can see ghosts
Some saints in the Middle Ages were dirty because they thought it would bring them closer to God. St. Anthony never washed his feet; St. Abraham never washed his hands or feet for 50 years; St. Sylvia never washed any part of her body except her fingertips.
The Aetherius Society believes Jesus is alive and well on the planet Venus
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
They used to have public trials and convictions of animals for witchcraft (they even hanged cows)
The "live long and prosper" sign by Star Trek's Mr. Spock is actually the sign that Jewish priests (Cohenim) used while saying certain prayers.
A Native American tribe in Wyoming once worshipped a giant wagon wheel. I think it's still there, near the city of Basin, in the Big Horn Mountains.
In 1654, Bishop Ussher of Ireland, having analyzed all the "begats" in Genesis, concluded that the planet Earth had been created at 9 a.m. on October 26, 4004 B.C., a Thursday.
St. Cassian was a schoolmaster whose pupils stabbed him to death with their pens
By one account, there were originally 399,920,004 angels in heaven. However, as onethird joined Lucifer and were then cast into hell, that means that only 266,613,336 are left.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
According to one statistician, the chances for oil that would light a lamp for one night to last eight nightsthe basis for the Jewish holiday of Chanukahwould be one in 3,000.
One mariner's tale of the 15th century held that men who tried to sail south of Morrocco would be transformed into Negroes
Legend has it that after he was beheaded, St. Dennis, the patron saint of Paris, France, carried his head around and walked for quite some distance before finally setting it down.
Domesticated cats are never mentioned in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times, lions 55 times\
he ancient Celts believed that rivers were the urine of goddesses. Many European rivers (Seine, Severn, Danube, etc.) were named after these urinating Celtic deities.
There are dinosaurs in the bible.
According to one statistician, due to the mathematics of the calendar, the 13th of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week
There were 13 colonies, which led to 13 stars, bars, and an eagle with 13 tail feathers that was holding 13 darts. E Pluribus Unum has 13 letters.
Biblical reasons why Friday and 13 are bad.The Last Supper had 13 people there. Jesus died on a Friday. Adam was created on a Friday. Eve tempted Adam with apple on Friday. Adam and Eve died on a Friday. The flood Noah's Ark began on Friday
According to Norse mythology, there were 12 gods present when Loki stormed the banquet at Valhalla hall and murdered the much beloved Balderso there were 13 present. The Norse also have a myth about journeying on a Friday.
Mistletoe represents a god's testicles.
In Germany, the parents of bad little boys and girls would receive whips and lumps of coal delivered by St. Nick's bud Knecht Ruprecht (Servant Rupert) at Christmas.
According to an old Egyptian text, a delicate nerve runs from the fourth finger of a person's left hand to their heart, thus explaining the origin why that finger is the "wedding finger."
In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.
Chef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Atleast 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
Looking into a microwave while it's on can cause skin cancer because of it's radiation.
The worst chat-up line a guy could use in a bar would have to be "I want you to fuck me like a praying mantis", this is because the praying mantis cannot have sex whilst the male's head is still attached, and the female bites off the male's head to initiate sex, or something along those lines.
Apparrently, if a shark loses her babies for more than two hours(I think it's two hours, but I'm not sure) and then finds them again, she will have forgetten that they are her babies, and she will eat them.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved 40000USD in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The average secretarys 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 worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
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 dollar 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.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish havent 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.
Los Angeless 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.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldnt beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
If you yelled 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 enough gas is produced to create 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 uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You cant kill yourself by holding your breath.
In most advertisements including newspapers the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capones business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home the stadium becomes the states third largest city.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capras Its A Wonderful Life.
A dragonfly has a lifespan 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.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Whos that playing the piano on the Mad About You theme? Paul Reiser himself.
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.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennons first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."
Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.
The Average American/Canadian drinks about 600 soda’s per year.
The average American family views television six hours each day.
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
As much as six percent of the world's population may experience sleep paralysis, the inability to move and speak for several minutes after awakening.
Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Androphobia is a fear of men.
Augustus Caesar had achluophobia—the fear of sitting in the dark.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
There are six words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum.
The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
A two hour motion picture uses 10,800 feet of film. Not including the previews and commercials.
"60 Minutes" is the only show on CBS that doesn’t have a theme song.
Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.
There are more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper family.
Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole".
The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.
Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca Cola International.
Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.
The Chinese used to open shrimp by flaying the shells with bamboo poles. Until a few years ago, in factories where dried shrimp were being prepared, "shrimp dancers" were hired to tramp on the shells with special shoes.
For decades, there's been a hard-fought and usually close battle between Coke and Pepsi in the United States...with each claiming some regional pockets of leadership. But globally it's no contest - Coca-Cola sales far outstrip sales of Pepsi-Cola internationally.
The famous Chef Wolfgang Puck chose the Italian word "Spago" as the name for his popular chain of restaurants. In Italian - spago = "String" or "Twine" - slang for spaghetti.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans eat more than 22 pounds of tomatoes every year. More than half this amount is eaten in the form of ketchup and tomato sauce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.
The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)
Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.
Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
coca cola used to be green
elephants can't jump
there is 8 insect legs in the average bar of choclate
it is physically impossible to lick your elbow
you just tryied to lick your elbow
a pigs orgasm lasts 30 minites
if you eat a dandilion you wet the bed...apparently
It is impossible to sneeze with ur eyes OPEN.
In Ancient Egypt frogs where thought to cure warts.
It is physically IMPOSSIBLE to kiss ur ass. Trust me I tryed it once...
Wasabi can be deadly if you sniff it up through your nose.
when coca cola 1st was made it had a trace of cocaine in it, that was before they made cocaine illegal
What is billed as the world's largest weather vane sits on the shores of White Lake in Montague, Michigan. It's 48 feet tall with a 26-foot wind arrow and adorned with a 14-foot replica of a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner.
The world's largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 Feet(7.3 Meters) tall, is made of sheet metal and could hold 150,000 8 ounce cups of coffee.
The Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center is the largest bowling establishment in the world. It has 252 lanes and one very tired pinsetter.
The World's Largest Catsup Bottle stands proudly next to Route 159, just south of downtown Collinsville, Illinois. This unique 170 ft. tall water tower was built in 1949 by W.E. Caldwell Company for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant. In 1995, due to the efforts of the Catsup Bottle Preservation Group, this piece of local history was saved from demolition and beautifully restored to its original appearance.
The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!
The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.
The highest wind velocity ever recorded in the United States was 231 miles per hour, on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1934.
Howard Kinsey and Mrs. R. Roark, during a game of tennis, batted the ball back and forth 2001 consecutive times.
The World's Largest yo-yo resides in the National Yo-Yo Museum in Chico, California. Named "Big Yo," the 256-pound yo-yo is an exact scale replica of a Tom Kuhn "No Jive 3 in 1 Yo-Yo." Fifty inches tall and 31.5 inches wide, the yo-yo is made of California sugar pine, Baltic birch from the former USSR, and hardrock maple. It was first launched in San Francisco on October 13, 1979.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period.
The largest web-footed bird is the albatross.
On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds!
At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
Toronto, Ontario was home to the biggest swimming pool in the world in 1925. It held 2000 swimmers, and was 300ft x 75ft. It is still in operation.
In 1968, Steve McPeak traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles on a unicycle. The trip took him six weeks, but he planned for the long bike journey. He brought an extra tire and a spare heinie.
The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it, caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed, as the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever.
Shakespeare's most talkative character is Hamlet. None of his other characters have as many lines in a single play. (Falstaff, who appears in several plays, has more lines total).
The largest school in the world is a k-12 school in the Philippines, with an enrollment of about 25,000.
France had the first supermarket in the world. It was started by relatives of the people who started the Texas Big Bear supermarket chain.
If you walked the entire length of the China's Great Wall, you would be walking farther than the distance between New York City and Miami, Florida. The wall stretches for over 1,500 miles. The driving distance between New York and Miami is just over 1,250 miles. Provided you don't get lost.
In Muddy, Illinois, the post office measures only 7½ by 10½ feet, about the size of a garden shed. If it wasn't for a sign hanging above the door stating, "U.S. Post Office, Muddy, IL., 62965," finding the tiny, wooden building could be difficult. It is believed to be one of the smallest post offices in the United States.
Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply.
The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth - about half an inch a year — is caused by the pressure exerted by two of the earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another.
The biggest hog ever recorded was a creature named Big Boy who weighed in at 1, 904 pounds.
Belgian driver Jenatzy was the first to reach a speed of over 100km/h in his electrically powered car 'La Jamais Contente' in 1899.
Never mind what you saw in the film "The Poseidon Adventure." The biggest wave on record, reported by a reliable source, was estimated to have attained a height of 112 feet. It was measured, at some distance, I hope, by a tanker traveling between Manila and San Diego in 1933. The wind was blowing at 70 mph at the time.
On December 15, 1998, the Mayer Kaplan Jewish Community Center in Skokie, Illinois attempted to set the inaugural world's record for largest number of dreidels to be spun at one time. At least 200 people were needed to set the record.
The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.
Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.
The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
Mark Wahlberg(sp?) has a 3rd nipple
-Hittler died as a virgin... (that's what i heard and i believe it)
-Aztecs used to eat a baby's flesh and drink its blood as part of a ritual
-Back in the medieval days it was believed that taking showers could cause you a disease
this one's i got from a site:
-It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
-Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze
Cambodian-Americans operate more than three-fourths of California's
approx. 2500 doughnut shops.
There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
2000 years ago the sky was red...
No im just kidding
Early Greek and Roman physicians believed the only way to grow a good crop of basil was to scatter the seeds while cursing and stomping their feet.
The Seven Deadly Sins are represented by the characters in Gilligan's Island: Gilligan, sloth; the Skipper, anger; Mr. Howell, greed; Mrs. Howell, gluttony; Ginger, lust; the Professor, pride; and Mary Ann, envy.
During the First Crusade, one band of religious hysterics who meant well but were quite desperate marched behind a goose they believed was filled with the Holy Spirit.
It's bad luck to reloop a belt if you missed it in the first place
The origin of the modern day confessional box comes from the Middle Ages. Before then, prostitutes who visited priests to confess their sins were often sexually assaulted.
The human aura cannot be photographed through polyester.
In ancient Egypt, when a cat died, it was manadatory for its owner to shave off his eyebrows to show his grief.
According to Matt Groening, a dog with seven toes can see ghosts
Some saints in the Middle Ages were dirty because they thought it would bring them closer to God. St. Anthony never washed his feet; St. Abraham never washed his hands or feet for 50 years; St. Sylvia never washed any part of her body except her fingertips.
The Aetherius Society believes Jesus is alive and well on the planet Venus
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
They used to have public trials and convictions of animals for witchcraft (they even hanged cows)
The "live long and prosper" sign by Star Trek's Mr. Spock is actually the sign that Jewish priests (Cohenim) used while saying certain prayers.
A Native American tribe in Wyoming once worshipped a giant wagon wheel. I think it's still there, near the city of Basin, in the Big Horn Mountains.
In 1654, Bishop Ussher of Ireland, having analyzed all the "begats" in Genesis, concluded that the planet Earth had been created at 9 a.m. on October 26, 4004 B.C., a Thursday.
St. Cassian was a schoolmaster whose pupils stabbed him to death with their pens
By one account, there were originally 399,920,004 angels in heaven. However, as onethird joined Lucifer and were then cast into hell, that means that only 266,613,336 are left.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
According to one statistician, the chances for oil that would light a lamp for one night to last eight nightsthe basis for the Jewish holiday of Chanukahwould be one in 3,000.
One mariner's tale of the 15th century held that men who tried to sail south of Morrocco would be transformed into Negroes
Legend has it that after he was beheaded, St. Dennis, the patron saint of Paris, France, carried his head around and walked for quite some distance before finally setting it down.
Domesticated cats are never mentioned in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times, lions 55 times\
he ancient Celts believed that rivers were the urine of goddesses. Many European rivers (Seine, Severn, Danube, etc.) were named after these urinating Celtic deities.
There are dinosaurs in the bible.
According to one statistician, due to the mathematics of the calendar, the 13th of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week
There were 13 colonies, which led to 13 stars, bars, and an eagle with 13 tail feathers that was holding 13 darts. E Pluribus Unum has 13 letters.
Biblical reasons why Friday and 13 are bad.The Last Supper had 13 people there. Jesus died on a Friday. Adam was created on a Friday. Eve tempted Adam with apple on Friday. Adam and Eve died on a Friday. The flood Noah's Ark began on Friday
According to Norse mythology, there were 12 gods present when Loki stormed the banquet at Valhalla hall and murdered the much beloved Balderso there were 13 present. The Norse also have a myth about journeying on a Friday.
Mistletoe represents a god's testicles.
In Germany, the parents of bad little boys and girls would receive whips and lumps of coal delivered by St. Nick's bud Knecht Ruprecht (Servant Rupert) at Christmas.
According to an old Egyptian text, a delicate nerve runs from the fourth finger of a person's left hand to their heart, thus explaining the origin why that finger is the "wedding finger."
In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.
Chef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Atleast 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
Looking into a microwave while it's on can cause skin cancer because of it's radiation.
The worst chat-up line a guy could use in a bar would have to be "I want you to fuck me like a praying mantis", this is because the praying mantis cannot have sex whilst the male's head is still attached, and the female bites off the male's head to initiate sex, or something along those lines.
Apparrently, if a shark loses her babies for more than two hours(I think it's two hours, but I'm not sure) and then finds them again, she will have forgetten that they are her babies, and she will eat them.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved 40000USD in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The average secretarys 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 worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
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 dollar 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.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish havent 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.
Los Angeless 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.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldnt beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
If you yelled 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 enough gas is produced to create 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 uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You cant kill yourself by holding your breath.
In most advertisements including newspapers the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capones business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home the stadium becomes the states third largest city.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capras Its A Wonderful Life.
A dragonfly has a lifespan 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.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Whos that playing the piano on the Mad About You theme? Paul Reiser himself.
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.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennons first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
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"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
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ViceCitySidMeier wrote:The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
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