Useless Facts that you'll never use (704 hits)
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Submitted by alexer26 (View user info) at 2008-04-20 12:22:17 EDT
The most useless facts you'll never need to know. (Some of them you might reconize)
• Barbie's measurements (if she were life-size): 39-23-33
• Coca-cola was originally green
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury
• Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever. Dumbest dog: 1) afghan
• The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
• First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer"
• There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year
• Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
• Men get hiccups more often than women
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
• Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2.
• Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $440,000
• City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
• Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
• Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
• Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
• Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
• Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
• Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
• City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Washington DC
• Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80
• Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
• Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
• Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
• Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
• Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
• Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
• Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
• Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
• Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
• Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
• Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
• Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
• Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
• Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
• Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan
• Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
• Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in Courage"
• Only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals
• President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem: Jimmy Carter
• Only food that does not spoil: honey
• Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
• Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
• Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
• Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
• An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it
• In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
• Polar bears are left-handed
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
• Eskimos never gamble
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
• The youngest pope was 11 years old
• Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
• Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses
• Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner
• Your nose and ears never stop growing
• Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined
• The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
• They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
• A love motel in Soa Paulo has opened for amorous dogs. The love motel offers decorated rooms for dogs of pet owners who are concerned for their animal's needs.
• Babies crawl an average of 200 meters a day.
• The average person eats eight spiders in their sleep in their whole entire lifetime!
• A mother had her forehead tattooed with the web address of a gambling site after auctioning off advertising space on her head to pay for her son's school fees.
• A controversial radio DJ's wife sold his $45,000 sports car on eBay for less than a dollar after he flirted with model Jodie Marsh on air.
• A Chinese man has managed to pull a car while walking on eggs without breaking a single egg. Not only did he pull the car 20 metres, he actually did it with his ears!
• The BBC asked reggae legend Bob Marley for an interview almost 24 years after his death. The British channel admitted that it was an "embarrassing error".
• A Shanghai online gamer murdered a competitor by stabbing him to death because he had sold his friends cyber-sword.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• A zoo in Germany has scrapped its plans to break up homosexual penguin couples after gay rights groups protested against it.
• An Australian beer brewer is rewarding 6 crates of beer to the person who finds the stolen statue of baby Jesus.
• A vibrating sex toy was mistaken for a bomb. The entire Mackay Airport in Queensland was closed down for nearly an hour because of it.
• An Austrian who was kidnapped and held hostage for 13 days was fired by his boss who accuses him of making it all up.
• Every single "all a's" domain name, from a.com to aaa..aaa.com (63 a's) has been registered!
• 1 in every 200 people is a psychopath and they look just like everyone else.
User Reviews
Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-04-22 11:19:46 EDT (#)
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www.snopes.com
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2008-04-21 16:34:12 EDT (#)
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I only read o few of these and real fucking pearls do not melt in vinegar.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-04-21 14:57:43 EDT (#)
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Wow. And by "wow" I mean "who gives a flying shit?"
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2008-04-21 14:20:30 EDT (#)
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I like useless facts
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2008-04-21 13:32:33 EDT (#)
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury
That's because increasing the amount of money in circulation decreases its value through commoditisation. The Treasury would cause a horrible, HORRIBLE depression if it made the dollar too abundant. I'm no economics master, but the way to make money valuable is to make sure the SUPPLY is contricted.
Hence why diamonds cost so much, despite being quite commonplace. De Beers cornered the market for mining and cutting diamonds by ensuring that anybody who did mining or cutting for any other 'rare' gem company never got De Beers contracts.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2008-04-21 09:46:22 EDT (#)
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im with Berg, I love random facts.
P.S. I own a border collie, best dog ever.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2008-04-21 08:04:57 EDT (#)
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What a load of bollocks.
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Submitted by Banjo (user info) at 2008-04-21 06:04:36 EDT (#)
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Must have had a thousand emails similar to this.
Then Stephen Fry and QI comes on TV and tells me these are all myths so I'm believing none of them.
Submitted by hooch4 (user info) at 2008-04-21 02:24:19 EDT (#)
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How do they figure which dogs are the smartest? Do they get them to take aptitude tests?
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-04-20 23:14:37 EDT (#)
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My thoughts:
• Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
"Without reptiles" pretty much rules out snakes, doesn't it?
• An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgy_2aVDwSk&NR
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
That makes me highly lethological.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-20 22:38:31 EDT (#)
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This was actually kinda cool.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-04-20 18:27:00 EDT (#)
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Never drank coke below.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-04-20 18:19:18 EDT (#)
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What? Polar bears don't have hands. Crazy.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-04-20 15:57:41 EDT (#)
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All lies. And an e-mail forward.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2008-04-20 15:27:04 EDT (#)
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Cock off
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2008-04-20 14:32:44 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2008-04-20 13:55:35 EDT (#)
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i read all of these and i definitely have better things to be doing.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2008-04-20 12:39:24 EDT (#)
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i'm sure yours is different though
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2008-04-20 12:38:19 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/4263
it's on the mvm
Submitted by Replen (user info) at 2008-04-20 12:36:10 EDT (#)
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I've ordered a chinese takeaway every Sunday for the last 7 weeks.
Submitted by jigglypuff (user info) at 2008-04-20 12:31:54 EDT (#)
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I've had a horse, dog and cat that got sunburn.
Submitted by Titus (user info) at 2008-04-20 12:27:15 EDT (#)
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My cock is 5.3" in length and 5.1" in circumference. It is circumcised.