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500 Useless Factz

The white half moon under your finger nail is an air pocket. No one knows why its there
More shoplifters are arrested on Wednesdays in January than any other time of the year
The stirrup, the tiniest bone in your body (it's in your ear), is smaller than an ant
Vampire bats use rivers to navigate. They smell the animal blood in the water and follow it
There are 3 Taco Bell resturants in downtown Mexico City
Mark Twain once tried to convince children that Santa Clause lived on the moon
A pound of houseflies containes more protein than a pound of beef
The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime just to pay their taxes
William Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words
40% of M&M's are brown
Americans travel 1,144,721,000 miles by air every day
The the U.S. you dial '911'. In Stockholm, Sweden you dial 90000
38% of American men say they love their cars more than women
The U.S. military operates 234 golf courses
Rubber bands last longer when refridgerated
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
Two thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in new jersey
The longest word without a vowel is "rhythm"
Maine is the only state whose name is only one syllable
All 50 states are listed across the top of the lincon memorial on the back of an american five dollar bill
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city
The human head weighs 8 pounds
Half of all americans live within fifty miles of their birthplace
100% of lottery winners do gain weight
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and lazer printers were all invented by women
Mel Blanc, voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots
40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this stoop in your medicine cabinet
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours and so does a fruitfly.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
All porcupines float in water.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in
the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
If it were possible to sneeze with your eyes open, they would pop out of thier sockets
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
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."
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorised all 158 verses.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
When possums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
2000 teenagers take up smoking everyday!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Every fact above ends with a "!"!
2 out of 6 people will actually check on the above fact!
Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas"
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The stop-motion puppet for King Kong was covered with rabbit fur
Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG13 rating
"Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet
There are Star Wars ships hidden in Star Trek: First Contact, Space Balls, and
Independence Day
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates
There is a statuette of R2-D2 attached to the model of the mother-ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and on the Borg ship on Star Trek: The Next Generation
The eye pieces on the borg in Star Trek: First Contact, flash in Morse code, spelling out the names of several members of the production team
James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger
Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television
101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Hercules and Mulan are the only Disney movies where both parents are present and don't die by the end of the movie
Paul McCartney purchased the rights to the Happy Birthday song we all know, so if you want to use it in a production, you have to pay him royalty fees
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty"
The Brothers Grimm wrote 211 fairy tales
It used to be illegal to swim by daylight
William Shakespeare claimed that honorificabilitudinitatibus was the longest word used in any of his plays
The words "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatossilphioparaomelitoatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolatoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", "Taumatawhakatangihangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapiikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and "Nordosterjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningmaerielunderhallsuppfoljknintssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" are all in the spell checker, but not in any dictionary, yet the words ""Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and "Floccipaucinihilipilification" are in the English Dictionary, but not in the spell checker!
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
"I" is the most spoken word in the English language
"You" is the second most spoken English word
"O" is considered to be the oldest vowel in the English language
The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area
A Canadian invented the paint roller
A Canadian was the creator of "Superman"
Canada is home to the International Federation of Bodybuilders
New Brunswick is the lobster capital of the world
15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toenails
The only two bald Presidents were Martin Van Buren and Dwight D. Eisenhower
In a speech made in 1961, John F. Kennedy was recorded as speaking at 327 words per minute, the fastest in public history
John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in twenty minutes
David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for only one day
The full name for Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
The bikini bathing suit was so named because it was created the same year the atomic bomb was tested on Bikini Isalnd
Benjamin Franklin was considered to be America's first cartoonist, he was also the first to suggest that clocks may be moved forward or backward to extend the daylight hours
South Dakota is the only U.S state which shares no letters with the name of it's capital, Pierre
Maine produces more toothpicks than any other U.S state
The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu
The full name for Bangkok is Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok pop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivetmahasathan Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprast
You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers
There is a law in France against selling dolls without human faces
The KGB is headquartered at No. 2 Felix Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow
The Vatican city registered 0 births in 1983
Spain leads the world in cork production
There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower
There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the worlds widest road
There is a city in Norway called "Hell"
The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
In the first century AD, Roman doctors endorsed the brushing of teeth with urine
Ancient Romans ate flamingo tongues and considered them a delicacy
The only animal which was allowed into an ancient Roman temple was a cat
In ancient Egypt, you could be put to death for killing a cat
An Egyptian has to say "I divorce thee" three times to be legally divorced
Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, she was Greek, not Egyptian
In ancient Greece, "idiot" meant private citizen or layman
Vincent Van Goh sold only one painting in his lifetime, Red Vineyard at Arles
Vincent Van Goh committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows
Salvador Dali once arrived at an exhibition with flies glued to his face
Michelangelo's sculpture Pieta is the only work of his to bear his signature, it is on Mary's mantle strap
Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other
Leonardo wrote backwards, so that the only way to properly read his writing was to hold it up to a mirror
After studying it for 47 days, the New York Museum of Modern Art discovered that the Matisse painting Le Bateau was hanging upside down
If an equestrian statue has two legs the air, the person on the horses back died in battle, if the horse has only one leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle, if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes
Most peoples hair stops growing at 3 ft 91 cm
One human hair can support 3kg
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people
The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb
The human brain is 85% water
Children grow faster in the springtime
People speak at a rate of about 120 words per minute
the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet can not tan
The resolving power of the human eye is 0.0003 of a radian or an arc of one minute (1/60th of a degree), which corresponds to 100 microns at 10 in. (confused yet?) A micron is a thousandth of a millimeter, hence 100 microns is 0.00397, or less than four thousandths of an inch, the human eye can detect a bright light shining through an aperture of only three or four microns
Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
Your fingers can detect a vibration with a movement of 0.02 of a micron
The loudest snore ever recorded is 87.5 decibels
The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age

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