If you're ever really bored...Read these USELESS FACTS!! :) -Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
-A 2000 year old toilet complete with running water, a stone seat, and an armrest was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Chinese king, of the Western Han Dynasty.
-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 colour blind.
-Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
-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.
-Ants never sleep.
-The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
-The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
-The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
-The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
-Kidney stones come in any colour from yellow to brown.
-Women blink twice as many times as men do.
-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.
-The shortest commercial ever was only 4 frames of a second.
-Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
-The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
-The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
-A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
-The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Perriwinkle Blue.
-Dr.Seuss pronounced "Seuss" so it rhymed with "rejoice".
-Babies are born without knee caps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
-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.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
-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.
-A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
-Pinocchio was made of pine.
-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.
-Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
-Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
-The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.
-If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
-Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun.
-It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
-The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
-The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
-Popeye was 5"6.
-Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
-The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
-Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
-The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
-Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
-The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
-The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
-There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
-The Eifel Tower has 2 500 000 rivets in it.
-"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
-On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
-The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
-The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
-The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
-Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
-It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
-2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
-A baby is born every 7 seconds.
-10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
-On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
-Blue and white are the most common school colours.
-Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
-The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was:
What hath God wrought?.
-The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were:
Watson come here, I need you.
-The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were:
Mary had a little lamb
-The four words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum, triduum and continuum.
-A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny.
-His middle name is George James.
-It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
-In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10 000 pounds of meat.
-A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
-America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
-American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
-American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
-Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
-Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
-You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
-Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
-A dog in East Africa says "woo-woo".
-A dog in Bangkok says "bahk-bahk".
-A dog in Japan says "wan-wan".
-A dog in Russia says "gahf-gahft".
-A cow in Thailand says "oo-ah"
-A cat in Japon says "neow".
-A cat in Thailand says "mao".
-A pig Japan says "moo-moo".
-A pig in Thailand says "oot-oot".
-A pig in Russia sayds"ha-roo".
-A rooster in Germany says "ay-ee-ache-ache"
-Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
-India has 50 million monkeys.
-By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
-Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
-Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
-You breathe about 10 million times a year.
-The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
-The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
-Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
-The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
-The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
-The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
-The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
-The doorbell was invented in 1831.
-The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.
-The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
-There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
-The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
-Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
-There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
-There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
-The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
-The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
-A squid has 10 tentacles.
-A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
-A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
-The world AND appears 46 277 times in the Bible.
-The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "Horn."
-The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174 465.
-The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
-There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
-Anthony Robbin's informercial airs every half an hour, 24 hours a day somewhere in the USA.
-When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
-Napoleon was terrified of cats.
-The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
-The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
-The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
-The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
-The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
-In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
-The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
-After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
-A person swallows approx. 295 while eating dinner.
-The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
-Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
-The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
-The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
-The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
-France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
-The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
-4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
-The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
-The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback
-The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
-The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
-The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
-George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
-The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
-Stainless steal was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
-A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
-The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
-The only dogs that don't have a pink tongue is the chow and the chinese shar-pei .
-Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
-The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
-The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
-Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
-Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.
-The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
-The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
-An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
-It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
-Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
-The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
-The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
-Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
-Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
-The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
-54% of Americans prefer to "fold" their toliet paper rather than "wad" it.
-Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagas.
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321
-There are more people alive today than have ever died.
-The first X-rated animated cartoon was Fritz the Cat
-The Library of Congress contains 327 miles of book shelves.
-There are 5 varieties of twins.
-The shell constitutes for 12 percent of an eggs mass.
-The longest word in the english language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It has 45 letters.
-An ostriche's eye is larger than its brain.
-'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row on a standard keyboard.
-The only words in the English language to use all vowels -n order is vacesious and facetious.
-The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
-Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
-A goldfish will eventually turn white when placed in a dark room.
-It was first discovered on a space misson flight that a frog could throw up. First it throws up its stomach, uses it's forearms to dig out the food and then swallows it stomach back down.
-White Out was developed my Mike Nesmith's mother (formerly of The Monkees)
-Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
-"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. If you're still bored please click this link ot even more Useless Facts |
