Useless Information

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.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian $2 bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 3:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $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 that is only one syllable.

Los Angeles' 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.

And ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone`s business card said that 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 "It`s a Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

  It`s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

You can see Abe Lincoln sitting in the chair (the Lincoln Memorial) inside the building on a penny.

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.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word you can type using only the left hand.

"Typewriter" is the longest word you can type using only the top shelf of the keyboard.

Abe Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated, too. (He was stabbed to death!)

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin` good" comes out as "eat your fingers off."

A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

European women didn't wear underwear until the 1900s.

More than 50% of the world has never made or received a phone call.

We shed 40 pounds of skin in a life time.

We drool more than three pints a day.

Yo-yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

A Russian woman gave birth to 69 children from 1725 to 1765 (there were 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets).

Prince William once flushed his dad`s shoes down the toilet.

Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.

Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I, had 6 fingers on her left hand.

Australian talk for going to the bathroom is, "spending a penny."

You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.

Girls see better than boys in the dark.

An average person has 696 muscles; a caterpillar has more than 4,000.

The typical bed houses two million dust mites. Yuck!

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

Ancient Romans and Egyptians used crushed tadpoles mixed with oil as hair dye.

Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.

A giraffe cleans its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

When a person shakes their head from side to side, they are saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

The largest chocolate chip cookie ever made contained 2.8 tons of chocolate.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

It`s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

Rats can`t vomit.

Everyday, 0.5% of the world visits a McDonald`s.

Children grow faster in the spring.

Napoleon suffered from constipation.

The only word in the English language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."

Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.

85% of people killed by lightning are male.

Your body is 70% water.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

The back of a sock is called a "gore".

Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed.

We've eaten 400 billion Oreos since they were fist introduced in 1912.

The Snickers bar is the #1 selling candy sold in vending machines.

The "sixth sick sheik sheep`s sick" is said to be the hardest tongue twister in the English language.

Add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel and the sum is 666.

In Pakistan, it`s rude to show your feet.

Barbie`s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones.

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