Useless Facts (2088 hits)
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Submitted by Adam Poirier (View user info) at 2005-02-27 12:31:43 EST
Sorry if there are any doubles..I combined quite a few lists.
A cow will spend 18 hours each day just chewing.
Statistics say that most heart attacks happen between 8 and 9 in the morning.
Jellyfish evaporate.
While most children say their first words when they're 1-2 years old, Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was 6.
The Niagra falls will no longer exist in about 23,000 years due to erosion.
McDonalds uses 2500 tonnes of sesame seeds every year.
A Billion seconds is 32 years.
New York has a law that states it is illigal for someone to sell a haunted house to another person without first telling them that it is haunted.
During his lifetime, Shakespeare's last name was spelt 83 different ways.
Only 6% of coupons printed are ever redeemed.
Every time someone laughs, on average they burn 3.5 Calories for every 5 seconds.
A skittle Candy fresh from the production line is so hard that it could break your teeth.
The Largest toy distributor in the world is McDonalds.
The Eiffel Tower stands 6 inches taller in the summer, than it does in the winter because steel has the ability to expand and contract depending on the temperature.
Any object can be thrown a longer distance if thrown westward. This is due to the axis and direction of rotation of the earth.
In Sweden, about 20% of all road accidents, every year, involve moose.
Soy milk is as popular in Hong Kong as Coca-Cola is in the U.S
The average American worker uses 11 Post-it notes a Day.
We Forget 80% of what we learn on any given day.
Cheese isn't sold in Most of China.
In Italy, the tax of Gasoline is higher than the price itself.
Average yawns last six seconds.
The second biggest reason for beaver's deaths is by being crushed by the trees they chop down.
Jupiter is in a constant state of hurricanes. The average wind speed is about 225MPH.
It takes the average European 7 minutes to fall asleep while it takes the average North American 15.
On average, a person will get locked out of his car 9 times during their lifespan.
Soy Milk as as popular in Hong Kong as Coka-Cola is in America.
Hitler was vegan. His reason was because he wanted to prevent cruelty to animals.
80% of arguments in the American home occur in the kitchen.
The Atlantic Ocean holds 17 quadrillion galloons of Water. (17,000,000,000,000,000)
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
The state of Florida is bigger than England. England just looks bigger because of its latitude.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."
The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. 36 letters, 15 syllables.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
The smallest bat weighs less than a Canadian penny.
Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.
The Largest Iceberg ever was sighted in the South Pacific Ocean in 1956. It was about the same size as Belgium.
The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
On every continent there is a city called Rome.
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.
Your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day.
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
You'll drink about 75,000 litres (20,000 gallons) of water in your lifetime.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.
The typical bolt of lightning heats the atmosphere to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
In 1870 there were more Irish living in London than in Dublin.
Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.
New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
The oldest person to have ever lived on earth, ever is Methuselah who died at the age of 969 years. Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
The albatross drinks sea water. It has a special desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess salt.
In Clarendon, Texas, there is reportedly a law on the books that lawyers must accept eggs, chickens, or other produce, as well as money, as payment of legal fees.
Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.
A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.The following sentence contains them all:"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
All porcupines float in water.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]
If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celsius degrees
During the Civil War, Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union Army before he accepted his post with the Confederacy.
Margaret Higgins Sanger, the birth-control pioneer, was one of eleven children.
There are more than 15,000 different varieties of rice.
When a man died in ancient Egypt, the females in his family would smear their heads and faces with mud and wander through the city beating themselves and tearing off their clothes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
User Reviews
Submitted by Kindred (user info) at 2005-11-07 19:24:17 EST (#)
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The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."
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HAHA ! But what about the (sometimes) elusive "Y".
BUUUUURRRNNNNNN !!
Good list though.
Submitted by olivia_tremor_control (user info) at 2005-04-09 19:37:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
surprisingly, this had a lot of things ive never seen before. well done.
Submitted by DerivableZero (user info) at 2005-04-09 19:08:23 EDT (#)
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Good things to know. :)
Submitted by fluff (user info) at 2005-04-06 17:42:12 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-02-28 12:37:41 EST (#)
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I knew I shouldn't have made that reservation for a trip to Niagara Falls in July 25048. Hopefully I'll be able to get my deposit back.
Submitted by CanucksFan (user info) at 2005-02-27 17:13:38 EST (#)
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hahahaha
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:59:38 EST (#)
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"All porcupines float in water."
This list is going to do wonders for my sex life.
Submitted by jayjonze (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:58:12 EST (#)
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Useless Fact lists are as entertaining as rant lists..........Meh
Submitted by Auf-Der-Maur (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:49:23 EST (#)
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I actually think Hitler was a vegan cause his body couldnt digest meat well.
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:42:26 EST (#)
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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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they do, it's just really hard to pick up (the 'Brainiac' team investigated it on Sky a few months ago, it'll be on here somewhere http://www.skyone.co.uk/programmes/brainiac/)
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:35:56 EST (#)
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I love these kind of things.
And GLALL, that's GENERALLY accurate, not always.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:29:50 EST (#)
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Damn it, now I read it and it says no MORE than 7. Damn it. I just wasted 3 minutes of my life.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:27:18 EST (#)
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I just folded a piece of paper in half 7 times. It was hard, and I had to take a coat hanger to it, but it worked.
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2005-02-27 16:06:21 EST (#)
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If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celsius degrees
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Did I make some of these up or something?!?!?
Submitted by CanucksFan (user info) at 2005-02-27 15:58:08 EST (#)
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I wasn't too sure about the old guy either..just going with what I've been told
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2005-02-27 15:10:32 EST (#)
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
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what does it shed?
its produced constantly
Submitted by bush_for_god (user info) at 2005-02-27 14:40:49 EST (#)
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but i still loved it
Submitted by bush_for_god (user info) at 2005-02-27 14:40:35 EST (#)
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The oldest person to have ever lived on earth, ever is Methuselah who died at the age of 969 years. Check
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not true, the bible speakes in metaphor, that's a known fact.
Submitted by Tigre (user info) at 2005-02-27 14:40:28 EST (#)
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meh
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-02-27 14:33:29 EST (#)
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A group of ravens is called something different when they are in the air than when they are on the ground.
I just forget what.
Seriously, who wants to buy a car? I'll throw in a ticket to the Green Day concert.....in Edmonton.
Submitted by Blitzen (user info) at 2005-02-27 14:23:31 EST (#)
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whatever, I've seen tons of these "useless facts" things and this one contained a lot I had never seen. I still read them all and enjoyed it.
Good job
Submitted by Wallstreet (user info) at 2005-02-27 14:19:49 EST (#)
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I dont care that this is old...must have took you some time....
My goal in life is to try to disprove that No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Submitted by CanucksFan (user info) at 2005-02-27 12:33:27 EST (#)
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Well it has just been brought to my attention that there is already one of these..on most viewed.
sorry