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Now some random useless facts:
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
-Pigs can run a mile in 7 1⁄2 minutes
-A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-Frogs do not drink water.
-Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
-Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
-Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air
-If an octopus gets hungry enough it will eat it's own legs
-Hawaii consumes more spam per year than any other state.
-When licking a stamp you are consuming one tenth of a calorie.
-The longest one syllable word in the English language is screeched
-If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
-A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field.
-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
-Butterflies taste with their feet.
-Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Starfish have no brains.
-Polar bears are left-handed.
-The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
-Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
-Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
-Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
-If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
-Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
-There are 333 toilet paper squares on the average toilet paper roll.
-Singapore only has one train station.
-The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
-The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
-It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
-Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
-Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
-There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
-Blue and white are the most common school colors.
-On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
-The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
-There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
-Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
-Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
-Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
-40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
-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.
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-There are only four words in the English language which end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-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 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 goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-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.
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand.
-Ice-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the world's fair in St. Louis, MO.
-More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
-It would take approximately 9,000 vertical marshmallow peeps to equal the height of the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
-It would take approx. 8,000 vertical peeps to equal the height of the tallest building in Noth America, Sears Tower in Chicago.
-In nine months, a housefly could lay enough eggs to produce a layer of flies that would cover all of Germany. (All of Germnay to a depth of 14m/47 feet)
-Around the world there are a total of 70 to 100 lightning flashes every second.
-A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature.
-Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
-More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.
-Early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation.
-Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
-Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
-On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
-Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
-In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.
-The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
-20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
-203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
-Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, NY.
-If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs- the price on the world market would increase by 80%.
-Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C".
-The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
-There are 52 cards in a standard deck and there are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards and 4 seasons in a year. If you add the values of all the cards in a deck (jack=11 queen=12, etc.) you get a total of 365 the same as the number of days in a year.
-The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
-In 1982, the last member of a group of people who believed the Earth was hollow died.
-A man named John Bellavia has entered over 5000 contests, and has never won a thing.
-The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
-If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
-The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska - Kool-Aid.
-7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
-Success magazine recently declared bankruptcy.
-The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
-Some 30,000,000 Americans slave over crosswords in newspaper, journals, and paperback books.
-The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down. It took up 16 sq. feet of space.
-George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.
-wow, like me you must be really bored if you read to the end here
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
-Pigs can run a mile in 7 1⁄2 minutes
-A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-Frogs do not drink water.
-Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
-Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
-Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air
-If an octopus gets hungry enough it will eat it's own legs
-Hawaii consumes more spam per year than any other state.
-When licking a stamp you are consuming one tenth of a calorie.
-The longest one syllable word in the English language is screeched
-If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
-A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field.
-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
-Butterflies taste with their feet.
-Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Starfish have no brains.
-Polar bears are left-handed.
-The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
-Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
-Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
-Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
-If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
-Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
-There are 333 toilet paper squares on the average toilet paper roll.
-Singapore only has one train station.
-The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
-The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
-It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
-Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
-Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
-There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
-Blue and white are the most common school colors.
-On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
-The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
-There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
-Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
-Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
-Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
-40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
-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.
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-There are only four words in the English language which end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-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 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 goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-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.
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand.
-Ice-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the world's fair in St. Louis, MO.
-More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
-It would take approximately 9,000 vertical marshmallow peeps to equal the height of the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
-It would take approx. 8,000 vertical peeps to equal the height of the tallest building in Noth America, Sears Tower in Chicago.
-In nine months, a housefly could lay enough eggs to produce a layer of flies that would cover all of Germany. (All of Germnay to a depth of 14m/47 feet)
-Around the world there are a total of 70 to 100 lightning flashes every second.
-A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature.
-Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
-More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.
-Early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation.
-Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
-Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
-On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
-Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
-In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.
-The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
-20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
-203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
-Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, NY.
-If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs- the price on the world market would increase by 80%.
-Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C".
-The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
-There are 52 cards in a standard deck and there are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards and 4 seasons in a year. If you add the values of all the cards in a deck (jack=11 queen=12, etc.) you get a total of 365 the same as the number of days in a year.
-The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
-In 1982, the last member of a group of people who believed the Earth was hollow died.
-A man named John Bellavia has entered over 5000 contests, and has never won a thing.
-The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
-If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
-The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska - Kool-Aid.
-7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
-Success magazine recently declared bankruptcy.
-The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
-Some 30,000,000 Americans slave over crosswords in newspaper, journals, and paperback books.
-The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down. It took up 16 sq. feet of space.
-George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.
-wow, like me you must be really bored if you read to the end here