Useless Facts
Useless Improbable Implausible Facts
- There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
- The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "sub continental".
- The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
- It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
- Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
- Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
- Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
- Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
- We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
- A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
- In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
- "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
- The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
- Adolph Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
- The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
- Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
- Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
- On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
- 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
- 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
- Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
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