Useless Facts


Assuming Rudolph is in front, the number of possible way to arrange Santa's other eight reindeer is 40,320.
Divide your weight by six to get the approximate number of quarts of blood in your body.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
The Monongahela River's name translated into English means "high banks breaking off and falling down in places."
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
During his life time, the average male eats 50 tons of food.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough iron to make a single one inch nail.
Most heart attacks occur between 6:00 a.m. and noon when blood pressure naturally rises.
Twenty-six astronauts have reported seeing UFOs while in orbit around the Earth.
Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails--about two hundredths of an inch per week.
Your brain uses 10 times more oxygen than the rest of your body.
Because the eyes work harder when viewing objects up close, particularly on a computer monitor, it is the proximity of the VDT screen to the eyes that causes eyestrain, not "radiation" emitted from the screen.
Albert Einstein didn't talk until he was four years old.
Most precious gems are actually colorless. Their color comes from impurities in the stone than act as pigmenting agents.
Gordon Sumner, the rock star and actor known as Sting, got his nickname from the yellow-and-black jerseys he used to wear, which fellow musicians thought made him look like a bumble bee.
A lightning bolt heats the air around it to three times the temperature of the sun's surface.
For every shark that takes a bite out of a human being, humans kill about a million sharks.
They live an average of 77 years and have the longest lifespan in the United States - nuns.
A giant squid's eye is the largest of any animal's, exceeding 15 inches in diameter.
The shoestring was invented in England in 1790. Prior to this time, all shoes were fastened with buckles.
The state of Kansas once passed legislation rounding off the value of Pi from 3.14159265... to an even 3.
The average American adult has 23 decayed or filled surfaces.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Until 1890, Vatican choirboys were castrated to keep their voices from deepening.
Gymnastics is the only sport more popular with women than with men.
In 1879 a drug was introduced to treat morphine addiction. The drug: cocaine.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Alaska has the highest percentage of Baby Boomers; Utah the lowest.
On average, an adult laughs about 15 times a day; a child laughs 400 times.
In medieval England beer was often served with breakfast.
The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871.
There are more stars in the universe, than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.
On the day that "The Wizard of Oz's" Judy Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.
"111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321"
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
3000 cows are needed to supply the leather for a year.s supply of NFL footballs.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
If there were ever an ocean big enough, Saturn would be the only planet that could float.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The Hewlett Packard computer company.s first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
At Old English weddings, guests through shoes at the groom.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Your hearing is not as sharp on a full stomach.
The last United States train robbery took place in 1933.
A 1,200 pound horse eats about 15 lbs. of hay and nine pounds of grain everyday (seven times its own weight each year).
Einstein couldn.t read until the age of nine.
The two lines that connect the bottom of your nose to your lip are called the philtrum.
1/100th of a second is called a "jiffy".
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
"J", the youngest letter in the English alphabet, was not added until the 1600s.
It takes around 200,000 frowns to create a permanent brow line.
The fastest-moving land snail is the common qarden snail whose top speed is 55 yards per hour or 0.0313 mph.
The most common time to sight a UFO is 11pm.
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
The right lung takes in more air than the left.
On average, Americans buy 1.5 toothbrushes a year.
60% of the swimsuits sold in the U.S. never get wet.
It takes about 30 minutes for an aspirin to find a headache.
In Nepal, Mt. Everest is known as "Gauriosankar".
Los Angeles Police Department ballistics experts say that the fastest bullet is fired from a .223 caliber rifle and travels at 3,500 feet per second, more than 3 times the speed of sound.
If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
The knee-high measurement of an average-sized grasshopper is about 1/2 inch.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
A group of cows, twelve or more, are known as a "flink."
In a survey of 5,000 U.S. nurses, 40 percent said they would not recommend the medical facility where they worked to a relative.
The ancient Romans died their hair with bird droppings.
Only pharoahs were allowed to eat mushrooms in ancient Egypt.
What area of your body has the most bacteria? Between your toes.
Ratio of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who are hearing impaired: 3 in 5.
The Yo-yo is believed to be the second-oldest toy in the world after dolls. The Greeks played with yo-yos as far back as 500 B.C.
You use 15 different muscles in your face to laugh.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
Only about half of all spiders spin webs.
Kangaroos are lactose-intolerant.
Charles Darwin's cousin invented the IQ test.
Goats can.t legally wear trousers in Massachusetts.
Niagara Falls was created by a glacier.
Abraham Lincoln hated being called "Abe".
5% of Americans let their dishes pile up for a couple of days before washing them.
Clams can live as long as 150 years.
In ancient China, doctors received their fees only if their patients were kept healthy. If the patient's health failed, the doctor sometimes paid the patient.
It.s illegal to ride an ugly horse down the street in Wilbur, Washington.
The skin on your eyelid is one one-thousandth of an inch deep (the thinnest); the skin on your back is one-fifth of an inch (the thickest).
According to research, you.ll blow your nose about 250 times this year.
Cows can be identified by noseprints.
A group of frogs is called an army.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents are present and don't die throughout the entire movie.
An electric eel's charge is so potent it can knock a horse unconscious from twenty feet away.
70% of house dust consists of human skin.
Artichokes are flowers.
Elephants breathe 12 times a minute.
It's impossible to snore in the weightlessness of space.
Mosquitos have 47 teeth.
An ecstatically weeping woman paid $8,625 at an auction for a pair of horseshoes worn by Mr. Ed.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. (Right, Shair?)
The first tennis balls were stuffed with human hair.
The average blink of an eye lasts one-tenth of a second.
The average American uses 12 gallons of water while showering.
Abe Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling.
In the Middle Ages, you were supposed to throw eggs at the bride and groom.
In Lawrence, Kansas, it.s against the law to carry bees around in your hat on city streets.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the number of injuries caused by plug-in air fresheners is 1,823.
Tomato ketchup was once sold in the U.S. as a medicine.
Snakes can get malaria.
Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils.
Ducks can get the flu.
Siberia means "sleeping land."
In the Leaning Tower of Pisa, 6 of the tower.s eight floors are without safety rails. More than 250 people have fallen to their deaths since 1174.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
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Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"--and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.(DON'T try this @ home!)
Mr.Rogers is an ordained minister.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, from 1910-1911, the word toast was borrowed from the Old French toste, which has the Latin root of torrere, tostum, meaning to scorch or burn.
Acting was once considered evil, and actors in the first English play to be performed in America were arrested.
All office seekers in the Roman empire were obliged to wear a certain white toga for a period of one year before the election.
At the turn of the last millennium, Dublin Ireland had the largest slave market in the world, run by the Vikings.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.
Before the 1800's there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.
Czar Paul I banished soldiers to Siberia for marching out of step.
Dog Days: Days of great heat. The Romans called the hottest weeks of summer canculares dies. Their theory was that the Dog Star (Sirius) rising with the sun, added to its heat and the dog-days (about July 3 to August 11) bore the combined heat of both.
During 18th century France, visitors to the royal palace in Versailles were allowed to stand in a roped-off section of the main dining room and watch the king and queen eat.
During the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago, a day was only 20.6 hours long.
During the Depression, banks first used Scotch tape to mend torn currency.
Everyone believed in the Middle Ages--as Aristotle had--that the heart was the seat of intelligence.
Evidence of shoemaking exists as early as 10,000 B.C.
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem 'The Star Spangled Banner' after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem.
High-wire acts have been enjoyed since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Antique medals have been excavated from Greek islands depicting men ascending inclined cords and walking across ropes stretched between cliffs. The Greeks called these high-wire performers neurobates or oribates. In the Roman city of Herculaneum there is a fresco representing an aerialist high on a rope, dancing and playing a flute. Sometimes Roman tightrope walkers stretched cables between the tops of two neighboring hills and performed comic dances and pantomimes while crossing.
If a family had 2 servants or less in the U.S. in 1900, census takers recorded it as lower middle-class.
If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
In midieval England, beer often was served with breakfast.
In the 1700's, you could purchase insurance against going to hell, in London, England.
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finlly went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.
In Victorian times, there was an intense fear of being buried alive, so when someone died, a small hole was dug from the casket to the surface, then a string was tied around the dead persons finger which was then attached to a small but loud bell that was hung on the surface of the grave, so then if someone was buried alive, they could ring the bell and whomever was on duty would go and dig them up. Someone was on the clock 24 hours a day- hence the grave yard shift.
It cost more to buy a car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to the New World.
January is National Soup month.
53,312 inmate lawsuits were filed nationwide in 1995.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the house.
Christmas was once illegal in England.
George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
In a tradition dating to the begining of the Westminster system of government, the bench in the middle of a Westminster parliarment is two and a half sword lengths long. This was so the government and oppositon couldn't have a go at each other if it all got a bit heated
In Alaska it is illegal to shoot at a moose from the window of an aeroplane or other flying vehicle.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In England during Queen Victoria's reign, it was illegal to be a homosexual but not a lesbian. The reason being that when the Queen was approving the law she wouldn't believe that women would do that.
In Texas, it is illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
In the UK, there is no act of parliament making it illegal to commit murder. Murder is only illegal due to legal precedent.
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.
It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
A downburst is a downward blowing wind that sometimes comes blasting out of a thunderstorm. The damage looks like tornado damage, since the wind can be as strong as an F2 tornado, but debris is blown straight away from a point on the ground. It's not lifted into the air and transported downwind.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a rover near Naples, Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore--where a tree blew over and killed him.
A full loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least twenty minutes to stop.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the sun's surface.
A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour.
A penny whistle has six finger holes.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
A standard grave is 7'8 x 3'2 x 6.
A syzygy occurs when three atronomical bodies line up.
A two-bit moon is in its first quarter.
About seven million cars are junked each year in the U.S.
All snow crystals are hexagonal.
All the gold produced in the past five hundred years, if melted, could be compressed into a 50-foot cube.
All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner.
An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.
Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.
April is Earthquake Preparedness month. For a little added incentive, consider this- The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811 in New Madrid, Missouri. The quake shook more than one million square miles, and was felt as far as 1,000 miles away.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.
Did you know you share a birthday with at least nine other million people in the world?
During the time that the atomic bomb was being hatched by the United States at Alamogordo, New Mexico, applicants for routine jobs like janitors, were disqualified if they could read. Illiteracy was a job requirement. The reason: the authorities did not want their trash or other papers read.
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman and child in the world.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said computers in the future may weigh no more than 5 tons.
In 1961, MIT student Steve Russell, created SPACEWARS, the first interactive computer game, on a Digital PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) mainframe computer. Limited by the computer technology of the time, ASCII text characters were the 'graphics' and people could only play the game on a device that took up the floorspace of a small house.
Iron nails cannot be used in aok because the acid in the wood corrodes them.
It takes one fifteen-to-twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.
The Venus's flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
A 60-minute cassette contains 565 feet of tape.
A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A good typist can strike twenty keys in a second.
A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites.
A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament.
All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.
Aluminum is strong enough to support 90,000 pounds per square inch.
As of 1983, an average of three billion Christmas cards were sent annually in the United States.
Each of us generate 5 pounds of rubbish a day; most of it is paper.
Every year, over 8,800 people injure themselves with a toothpick.
Hallmark makes cards for 105 different relationships.
How valuable is the penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies.
If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
In 1990, there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the U.S.
In every deck of cards, the King of Hearts is sticking his sword through his head. That's why he's often called the Suicide King.
In historic Deerfield, Massachusetts a guide was showing us fireplaces and some old cooking items. One of the items was an iron standing grid that they would slide bread slices into and place in front of the fire. This grid could turn around and the story goes that the women would push it with their toe; originating the term toe stir which eventually became toaster.
John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.
Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished or corroded brass.
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Mosquito repellants do not repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they do not know you are there.
The first U.S. coin to bear the words, United States of America was a penny made in 1727. It was also inscribed with the plain-spoken motto: Mind your own business.

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