Useless Information
I don't know any of this information as FACT. It is only hear-say. I can't guarantee any of this to be true.
Disclaimer: Every fact has a "1" in front of it. I used to use a wingdings font to put a dot (at least I think it was a dot) in between each fact, only a while ago, I tried to condense the size of this page by changing the font and font size. In the process, I accidentally changed all the "wingdings" dots to "variable width" number 1's. Theres no way I am going to take the time to go through all of these and change them back! haha
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." l On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. l Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. l All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. l A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened l "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters mt". l The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' l The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'. l Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. l Cat's urine and all rodent urine glows under a black light. l The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. l All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. l Almonds are members of the peach family. l If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050 l The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. l The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. l Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. l The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes. l In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber. l Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. l Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) l Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union. l If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. l Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time (and I'm one of them). l The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. l Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. l On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15. l The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. l We had four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.) l Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats. l The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." l If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. l The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. l Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus. l Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. l There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. l The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. l The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. l An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. l Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. l Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T. l In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. l The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'. l Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. l The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. l The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". l Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. l Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. l The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism". l When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." l Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd." l The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. l The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. l Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. l Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. l Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons." l Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. l A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. l 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 l The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. l There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." l A dragonfly will mate for life. l A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. l A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. l A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. l 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. l It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. l "Evian" spelled backvards is naive. l Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. l It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright. l A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat. l Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box. l There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. l It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces. l In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time. l The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mi Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. l The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Different Strokes . l In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run. l The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks. l Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
The Skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck. l The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. l In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. l Alexander the Great was an epileptic. l The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger. l 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." l The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. l Horses cannot vomit. l Rabbits cannot vomit. l S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone couldkey it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875. l When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny. l The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse. l The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan." l John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. l The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. l Dartboards are made out of horsehairs. l One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant. l Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. l Octopi have gardens. l "Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actuallysinging "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.' (In that debbie gibson song "out of the blue" I used to think she was saying "tree trunk true" instead of "dream come true") l Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox. l 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel. l 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. l One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. l Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing. l The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man. l To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles. l Swans are the only birds with noticable privates. l A male whale's private part is called a dork. l Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses. l The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. l The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water. l Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. l The only planet without a ring is earth. l Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks. l If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. l The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots. l Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." l A group of unicorns is called a blessing. l Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." l A group of frogs is called an army. l A group of rhinos is called a crash. l A group of kangaroos is called a mob. l A group of whales is called a pod. l A group of geese is called a gaggle. l A group of ravens is called a murder. l A group of officers is called a mess. l A group of larks is called an exaltation. l A group of owls is called a parliament. l The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress. l Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. l Starfish don't have brains. l Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia." l Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling. l 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. l Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. l The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. l Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days. l No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. l Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." l Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". l There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. l Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (actually I'm pretty sure the shortest complete sentence is the command "Go." with an understood subject of "You".) l The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." l The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." l The most common name in the world is Mohammed. l Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston. l The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." l The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. l The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive -- so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor. l Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots l Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! l Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. l Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. l Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. l The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. l Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott". l Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. l More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. l 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." l The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown in war time. l The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk. l Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike. l The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." The only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out. l Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England. l A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. l The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. l Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living. l The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. l Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. l Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. l The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred. l There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo l Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI l Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded l In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast l In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows l An average person laughs about 15 times a day l The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night l The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s l The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. l America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men l A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee l The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is l Every person has a unique tongue print l Women's hearts beat faster than men's l Most American car horns honk in the key of F (same key as the hum of a fly.. hmmm)
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.] l Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns l Most lipsticks contains fish scales l Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego l The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley l 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningles sexistential hell." l Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. l "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo. l Only 30% of us can flare our nostrils. l 21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do. l Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly. l 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man. l 85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear. l 67.5% of men wear briefs.
The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago it was a 34B. l 85% of women wear the wrong bra size. l 3 out of 4 of us store our dollar bills in rigid order with singles leading up to higher denominations. l 13% of us admit to occasionally doing our offspring's homework. l 91% of us lie regularly. l 27% admit to cheating on a test or quiz. l 29% admit they've intentionally stolen something from a store. l 50% admit they regularly sneak food into movie theaters to avoid the high prices of snack foods. l 90% believe in divine retribution. l 10% believe in the 10 Commandments. l 82% believe in an afterlife. l 45% believe in ghosts. l 13% (mostly men) have spent a night in jail. l 29% of us are virgins when we marry. l 58.4% have called into work sick when we weren't. l 10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
Over 50% believe in spanking - but only a child over 2 years old. l 35% give to charity at least once a month. l How far would you go for $10 million? 25% would abandon their friends, family, and church. 7% would murder. l 69% eat the cake before the frosting. l When nobody else is around, 47% drink straight from the carton. l 85% of us will eat Spam this year. l 70% of us drink orange juice daily. l Snickers is the most popular candy. l 22% of us skip lunch daily. l 9% of us skip breakfast daily. l 66% of us eat cereal regularly. l 22% of all restaurant meals include french fries. l 14% of us eat the watermelon seeds. l Only 13% brush our teeth from side to side. l 45% use mouthwash every day. l 22% leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink. l The typical shower is 101 degrees F. l Nearly 1/3 of U.S. women color their hair. l 9% of women and 8% of men have had cosmetic surgery.
53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on. l 58% of women paint their nails regularly. l 62% of us pop our zits. l 33% of women lie about their weight. l 10% of us claim to have seen a ghost. l 57% have had deja vu. l 49% believe in ESP. l 4 out of 5 of us have suffered from hemorrhoids. l The average girl starts her period at age 12. l 44% have broken a bone. l Only 30% of us know our cholesterol level. l 14% have attended a self-help meeting. l 15% regularly go to a shrink. l 78% would rather die quickly than live in a retirement home. l 46.5% of men say they ALWAYS put the seat down after they've used the toilet, yet women claim to ALWAYS find it up. l 30% of us refuse to sit on a public toilet seat. l 54.2% of us always wash our hands after using the toilet. l 23.5% admit they don't always flush. l 45.2% pee in the shower. l 44.9% pee in the ocean.
28.1% pee in the pool. l 55.2% will let someone else come in the bathroom while they're using the toilet. l 39% of us peek in our host's bathroom cabinet. 17% have been caught by the host. l 81.3% would tell an acquaintance to zip his pants. l 29% of us ignore RSVP. l 71.6% of us eavesdrop. l 22% are functionally illiterate. l Less than 10% are trilingual. l 37% claim to know how to use all the features on their VCR. l 53% prefer ATM machines over tellers. l 6% of women do the bills in a marriage. l 2 out of 3 of us wouldn't give up our spouse even for a night for a million bucks. l 20% of us have played in a band at one time in our life. l 40% of us have had music lessons. l 44% reuse tinfoil. l 57% save pretty gift paper to reuse. l 66% of women and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and taken credit for doing it from scratch. l 53% read their horoscopes regularly.
16% of us have forgotten our own wedding anniversary (mostly men). l 59% of us say we're average-looking. l 90% of us depend on alarm clocks to wake us. l 53% of us would take advice from Anne Landers. l 28% of us have skinny-dipped. 14% with the opposite sex. l 51% of adults dress up for a Halloween festivity. l On average, we send 38 Christmas cards every year. l 20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends. l 2 out of 5 have married their first love. l The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money. l Only 4% asked the parents' approval for their bride's hand. l 1 in 5 men proposed on his knees. l 6% propose over the phone. l 71% can drive a stick-shift car. l 45% of us consistently follow the speed limit. l 2/3 of us speed up at a yellow light. l 1/3 of us don't wear seat belts. l 12% of men never use their car blinkers. l 44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them. l 25% of us drive after we've been drinking. l 4 out of 5 sing in the car.
The average sexual experience lasts about 39 minutes. l Men say the average erect penis is 10". Women say it's 4". l 56% of men have had sex at work. l 1 in 3 of us have had an extramarital affair. l 62% think there is nothing wrong with affairs. l 60% of men and 54% of women have had a 1-night stand. l The words "United States of America" are on the collar of the guy on the $50 bill, very small... l Fred and Wilma Flintstone were the first couple ever to be seen in the same bed on television. l Lassie was actually played by 15 different dogs, all in the same family. 13 of them were male. l AT&T has an illegal monopoly on long distance calls, because they patented the "1" that you dial before each one. Every call you make, no matter who the carrier, AT&T gets a cut. l Potato chips were invented by a pissed off cook who purposely tried to cut a customer's potatoes too thin, cook them too long, and put too much salt on them. l Americans drink an average of 13 gallons of bottled water a day. l Lightning can, and often does, strike the same place twice. l