would you like to check out these 320 useless facts?
Aug 02, 2009 by bananas!! | Posted in Polls & Surveys
1. Samuel Clemens (Goal Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup container represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's swill annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your bay window produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close kindred member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Construction on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a lorgnette of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means expect of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky billion. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a breed.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In hoary Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Advance Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is unquestionably 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a immense king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald's profits Loosely transpire b Nautical tack from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue issue along with their finger print.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 glossary were misspelled.
26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on widdershins.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood severally).
28. Camel's have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Cubicle's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are sibling and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in effervescent water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (lallapalooza whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to debunk.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as prescription.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Enunciate no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can breach a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold blitz of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these rumble years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by engaging out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars noted out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
49. There are 318,979,564,000 thinkable combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "topmost" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the more elevated case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 d
which Motorola got their name from.
74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or pot-bellied; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in plain school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.
75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an tiro was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold in every respect one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot put be understood into quicksand.
78. One in ten people live on an island.
79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to Rather commence with.
80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-similar contest.
82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Initial, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take region on a Friday.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The international telephone dialing jurisprudence for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
58. The typical raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to enamel Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the inventive.
60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the dusting down so you could see his moves.
62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dime
64. IBM's rule is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".
65. The show used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk cover painted white, due to low budget.
66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't pommel your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
69. The Olympic was the sister haul of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.
73. The first commodity Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the call was Victrola
sorry! it won't let me fit them all:( lol
agony noooooo
zaz | Aug 02, 2009
HEY Slews 9 IS GOOD IM ALMOST OUT,, SMOKE IF YOU GOT THEM
art l | Aug 02, 2009
Thanks for the present
bianca | Aug 02, 2009
wow i as a matter of fact read all of those and then you added more :(
Becca is a hot mess | Aug 02, 2009
idk why but...
1) i couldnt stop off reading
2) #11 made me lol
3) i tried all 3 things in #43 before i read the disclaimer... -_-
pretty in punk | Aug 02, 2009
That is deep down cool! I didn't know a lot of these!
Star for you!! =D
doglover | Aug 02, 2009
That.... Was..... Moving!!! :D
.:SugaBae:. | Aug 02, 2009
Relaxed, but I'd say #32, #43 and #71 are pretty useful.
SwoonWorthy | Aug 02, 2009
Sorry, I don't shortage to be mean but....
I don't think all of these are true (like number 29) and the numbers get out of order.
livilove | Aug 02, 2009
I didnt announce them all, lmao!
but ur ahhhhhhhh-mazing!
Hannah | Jul 31, 8170
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