| Useless Trivia |
| Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person'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." Now word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". Almonds are a member of the peach familyl. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not striped fur. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver on Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life". A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. The venom in a Daddy Long Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but ehy cannot bite humans because their jawas won't open wide enough. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee. Americans, on the average, eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. |