Page Of Useless Information
1. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
2. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
3. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
4. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
5. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
6. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
8. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
9. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
10. No president of the United States was an only child.
11. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
12. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
13. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
14. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
15. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
16. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
17. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
18. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
19. A whale's penis is called a dork.
20. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
21. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
22. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
23. Mulan, 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only three Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
24. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
25. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
26. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
27. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
28. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
29. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
30. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
31. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
32. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
33. A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold because of the different conventions of weight in the British system of measure.
34. Kansas has no natural lakes!!! All the lakes are man-made. What a State!
35. The human head weighs eight pounds!!!
36. Did you know that a dollar bill is exactly 6 inches long?
37. You need 14% oxygen in the air you breath to survive and when you exhale there is 16%. That's why CPR works.
38. Number of people named Kris Kringle with listed phone numbers in the United States: 4
39. Percentage of alcohol sales in Russia that are illegal (according to the Russian Governmen): 80%
40. Number of years that McDonalds in Pushkin Square, Moscow has been the busiest (Dec 1997): 7
41. Estimated worth of Fidel Castro (Forbes magazine 1997): US$1,400,000.000
42. Percentage of cruise ship nurses who are from Newfoundland: 40%
43. Rank of home appliances among factors that Vietnamese newlyweds cite as the most important to family harmony: 1
44. Chances of being struck by lightning at least once during a lifetime: 1 in 10,456
45. Chances of being struck by a falling aircraft this year: 1 in 25,000,000
46. Of the seven Mercury space program astronauts, the number who were first born children:7
47. Most common "surgery" performed in America: circumcision (although classed as surgery its benefits are debatable and it has also been described as "medical malpractice" and "technically criminal assualt")
48. The number of women with Barbie's 32-16-29 figure : 1 in 100,000
49. The National Library of Switzerland collects only Swiss books or books about Switzerland.
50. Q: If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they get it to stick to the pan?
A: Teflon is a double sided molecule (one side is rough the other side is smooth!)!!
51. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo. He was also the voice of of Robin from the old Batman cartoons.
52.The tiger paw logo used by Clemson University originates from a mold of the front right paw of the stuffed Bengal tiger in the Smithsonian Institute.
53. A teaspoon of the bacteria that causes Botulism could kill the entire human race.
54. Maryln Monroe had six toes on one foot, and had the extra one removed.
55. You can hold an alligator's mouth closed, but you could never hold it open.
56. Your foot is the same size as your forearm.
57. A dog's mouth has less germs than a human's mouth.
58. A bull will never be able to see a red cape...all bulls are color blind.
59. If a cat were big enough, it would eat a human.
60. Tchaikovsky, the famous composer, died of Cholera.
61. Kidnapping became a federal crime only after Charles Lindburgh's baby was kidnapped.
62. The average male will think of something of a sexual nature every eleven seconds.
63. The largest organ in the body is the skin.
64. The only 2 words (I know) that don't have a vowel in them are rhythm and sky.
65. 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.
66. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." Thus Don McCleans "bye bye miss American pie".
67. The world population eats 200,000,000 M&M's per day.
68. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
69. Humans are the only animals that cry tears (and also the only ones that cry because they are sad).
70. Sweat and urine are both odorless, only after leaving the body do bacteria invade the liquid to cause odor.
71. There are only 4 cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; Minnesota, MN; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
72. The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
73. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
74. Copernicus invented butter.
75. The real Cyrano de Bergerac was the worlds first science fiction writer, he wrote Voyage to the Moon, describing rockets, 30 years before Newtons third law of motion.
76. A young black man named Walker Smith -nicknamed Sugar- was too young to box, he borrowed the birth certificate of Ray Robinson and became the 5 time Middleweight World Champion.
77. Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
78. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. Vince Lombardi never said "winning isn't everything, its the only thing." What he said was "winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
79. To stop the superstition British sailors have with fridays, the British Government, laid a keel of a new ship on a friday, launched her on a friday, named her H.M.S Friday, and sent her on a voyage on a friday. Neither the ship or her crew was ever seen again.
80. Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
81. A forfeited game is baseball is recorded as a 9-0 score. In football it is 1-0.
82. The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock's father.
83. The San Fransisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
84. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
85. Both books of the Bible, Esther and Song of Solomon,do not mention the word God.
86. Paul Revere rode on a borrowed horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.
87.The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy'. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go.
88. Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
89. Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after March 21.
90. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
91. Months that begin with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
92. The lightbulbs in the New York Subway system screw in clockwise and screw out counter-clockwise, the reverse of traditional lightbulbs. This is so that people who steal them can't use them.
93. Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
94. Both writer Edgar Allan Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point. Edgar Allan Poe was kicked out for appearing naked with only his white gloves..and belt on the parade inspection.
95. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
96. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
97. A whale's penis is called a dork.
98. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
99. The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus.
100. The Dominican Republic has the only national flag with a bible in it.
101. James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
102. "Polish" is the only word in the English language that when capitalized is changed from a noun or a verb to a nationality.
103. Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the title of the book comes from.
104. Ohio is the only state not to have a rectangular flag. It's a pennant.
105. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
106. October 10 is National Metric Day.
107. If you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word in the sentence: "May I have a large container of coffee?" If you get the coffee and are polite and say "Thank you," you get two more decimal places. [3.141592653...]
108. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
109. The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx.
110. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
111. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
112. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
113. The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, should be a fruit cake so it will last until the couple's first anniversary.
114. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. Gold is kept at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
115. Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
116. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
117. The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
118. The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.
119. The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
120. A slinky is 87 feet long.
121. The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
122. Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
123. All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.
124. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
125. The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.
126. The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
127. The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.
128. Humans and black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
129. Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
130. When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neap tides."
131. The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
132. A quarter has 119 reedings around the edge of it & a dime has 118.
133. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
134. At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
135. The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.
136. The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
137. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
138. Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.
139. 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.
140. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
141. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
142. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
143. A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
144. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
145. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
146. Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.
147. In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's auntie Em's last name is Gail.
148. Peter Cooper invented the first passenger locomotive and Jell-O.
149. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University.
150. All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen.
151. 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.
152. After snails mate, they both lay eggs.
153. A mayfly's lifespan is only 2 hours.
154. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
155. The proper ratio of holes in a salt shaker to holes in a pepper shaker is five to three.
156. The is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
157. The concentration of salts in the ocean has not changed in the last 1.5 billion years.
158. The total amount of water stored in the worlds lakes is 2,000 cubic miles, as compared to 324,000,000 in the earths oceans.
159. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (I wouldnt want to be the one to test this.)
160. The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means "bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax" depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, "ko-kou-ko-le," which can be loosely translated as "happiness in the mouth."
161. A bowl of Wheaties contains twice as much sodium as a bowl of potato chips.
162. The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
163. There are more automobiles in Los Angeles than people.
164. If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, (including the uninhabitable areas) everyone would get roughly 100 sq.ft.
165. On any given day, Americans spend over $33 million buying lottery tickets.
