Useless Facts

# For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
# The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
# By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
# The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
# If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
# Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
# 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."
# 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 bill.
# Almonds are a member 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.
# The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
# There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
# Los Angeles's 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.
# An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
# Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
# In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
# 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 in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
# A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
# A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
# It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
# The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
# In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
# 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.
# There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
# "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
# Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
# The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
# The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
# Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
# Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
# Starfish have no brain.
# Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
# Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
# Bulls are color blind.
# A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
# "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.

# Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
# Lip stick contains fish scales.
# The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
# The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
# Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
# Women blink twice as many times as men do.
# The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
# A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
# The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
# Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
# The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
# Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
# The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
# Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
# The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
# The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
# Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!
# A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
# An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
# Emus can't walk backwards.
# A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
# A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
# A group of whales is called a pod.
# A group of geese is called a gaggle.
# A group of owls is called a parliament.
# A group of ravens is called a murder.
# A group of bears is called a sleuth.
# 12 or more cows is called a flink.
# A baby oyster is called a spat.
# Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
# In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
# The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
# Pinocchio was made of pine.
# The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
# A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
# More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
# Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
# There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
# The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
# A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
# A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
# Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
# The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
# Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
# The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
# Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
# New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
# There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
# Singapore only has one train station.
# The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Wow, It's a real shame, I've never visited "6".

mr rogers is an ordained minister how can that be when he died not that long ago bless his soul he is or should i say was an ordained minister its quiet a shame too he had a heart attack on one of his shows and they didnt air it because of that instead they aired another episode of sesame street

I thought that mr rogers was a retired sniper from the marines....of course i really don't know if that was true or not.

mr. rogers was a childrens tv show where he had a trolly that took u to the land of make believe. and he always wore cardigan sweaters

heres a couple more

when a fly takes off it always jumps backwards

the giraffe has the same amount of bones in its neck as a human neck

a group of skylarks is called an exaltation

# It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)


I tried this. It's possible to do it. But uh, ouch, it sorta hurts.

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

# Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

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who was the evil git found that out lol

• On the average, a fart is composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen. Less than 1% of its makeup is what makes it stink.

• The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second.

• Women fart as much as men.

• The gas that makes your farts stink is hydrogen sulfide. the more sulfur rich your diet, the more your farts will stink. Some foods that cause really smelly farts include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda, and eggs.

• Most people pass gas about 14 times a day.

this concludes your April 3rd useless facts :gj: