100 Useless facts
Yes, I stole these, but they are worth stealing!!!!
1.-If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2.-If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
3.-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
4.-A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
5.-A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
6.-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
7.-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.
8.-The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
9.-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
10.-Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
11.-Butterflies taste with their feet.
12.-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
13.-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
14.-Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
15.-A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
16.-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
17.-Starfish have no brains.
18.-Polar bears are left-handed.
19.-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
20.-Dynamite has peanut oil in it
21.-Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
22.-Cows and horses sleep standing up.
23.-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year
24.-The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.
25.-There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran
26.-There is no ice covering Iceland.
27.-The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
28.-Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots
29.-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
30.-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
31.-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
32.-Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
33.-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
34.-The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
35.-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
36.-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
37.-Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
38.-A female's chances of being involved in an auto accident increase 50% on Friday 13th.
39.-There are more chickens than people in the world.
40.-The biggest hog ever recorded was a creature named Big Boy who weighed in at 1,904 pounds.
41.-The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
42.-Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
43.-During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
44.-You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina
45.-In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
46.-Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
47.-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
48.-Doodlesack is german for bagpipes.
49.-The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
50.-The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane
51.-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have only about ten.
52.-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
53.-In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a superman somewhere.
54.-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
55.-The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver."
56.-The average Lead Pencil can draw a line 35 miles long, or write 45,000 words.
57.-250,000 pink flamingos are sold in the US each year
58.-Sixty percent of Americans can name all 3 stooges; only 17 percentcan name 3 Supreme Court Justices
59.-Nearly half of all Kentucky residents over the age of 65 are missing all of their teeth
60.-The longest Movie ever, was The Cure For Insomnia (1987). It was 85 hours long.
61.-Bill Clinton was paid the largest advance for a non-fiction book, ever. $10 million.
62.-A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
63.-The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
64.-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
65.-A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
66.-The state of Florida is bigger than England!
67.-Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
68.-Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows.
69.-Another word for hiccups is "singultus."
70.-Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest English word that consists strictly of alternating consonants and vowels.
71.-The act of sneezing is referred to as sternutation.
72.-The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have one syllable, it has three.
73.-The markings that are found on dice are called "pips."
74.-The words moron, imbecile, and idiot are not interchangable. The one with the highest level of intelligence is a moron, followed, by an imbecile, and then idiot.
75.-The longest word in the English language is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.
76.-In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e's), Indivisibility (six i's), and nonannouncement (six n's).
77.-The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u's is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
78.-The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.
79.-Police in Hong Kong stopped a man because he seemed to be 'oddly shaped'. He was found to be wearing 18 bras and 45 pairs of ladies' panties.
80.-Kermit the frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
81.-Wilma Flinstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
82.-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
83.-Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
84.-During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
85.-There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
86.-The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year.
87.-Americans eat close to 10 billion donuts every year
88.-Studies prove it's harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.
89.-The lips of a hippopotamus are nearly two feet wide.
90.-Taco Bell changed the Chilito's name to the Chili Cheese Burrito, only after discovering that "chilito" was a derogatory slang term in Spanish that meant "small penis."
91.-An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.
92.-In many cultures, an unmarried woman is considered a virgin, even if she's a prostitute.
93.-The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
94.-For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
95.-This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds
96.-Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
97.-The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term meaning "for example."
98.-The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable – it has three.
99.-The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
100.-Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
