Did You Know That...

101 useless but interesting facts.

''' Did You Know? '''

101 just about useless but fun to know facts


 * 1) a pencil can make a line as long as 35 miles
 * 2) the world’s yougest parents became parents in 1910, at the age of 9 and 8 years old
 * 3) the Earth weighs approximately 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
 * 4) in 1984, the American airlines saved $40,000 dollars by eliminating one olive from the food they served to first class
 * 5) you travel very slightly faster through time when you move further away from a gravitational force
 * 6) the average goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds
 * 7) buttermilk has no butter in it
 * 8) common pests such as roaches can be found inside most Americans’ bodies
 * 9) every year, about 1,600 people in New York City are bitten by other people
 * 10) it costs three cents to print one dollar bill
 * 11) King Kongwas Adolf Hitler’s favorite movie
 * 12) it takes 63,000 trees to print one edition of the New York Times
 * 13) Leonardo DaVinci was dyslexic, and sometimes wrote backwards
 * 14) in Japan, there are square watermelons
 * 15) there are, in fact, red pandas
 * 16) every year, there are about 40,000 toilet-related injuries in the United States
 * 17) ten people every year are killed by vending machines
 * 18) Elvis Presley got a “C” in his eighth grade music class
 * 19) Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team
 * 20) the average American eats McDonalds over 1,800 times during their lifetime
 * 21) most dreams only last between 5 and 20 minutes
 * 22) in France, it is legal to marry a dead person
 * 23) termites eat wood twice as fast as normal when they are listening to heavy metal music
 * 24) the opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to 7
 * 25) there are no words in the English language that rhyme with orange, purple, or month
 * 26) e is the most frequently used letter in the alphabet, and q is the least used
 * 27) it was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because in France there is a law against selling dolls without human faces
 * 28) in Iceland, it is considered an insult to tip at a restaurant
 * 29) Google got its name from the word googol, which is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
 * 30) McDonalds salads contain 60% more fat than their burgers, provided it has crutons and dressing
 * 31) according to US laws, a beer commercial cannot show a person actually drinking beer
 * 32) the word “set” has the most definitions out of any word in the English language- over 100
 * 33) chocolate, especially dark choclate, contains antioxidants, which can assist in fighting heart and blood diseases
 * 34) former president Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term for running over an old lady on his horse
 * 35) the toothpick is the object most frequently choked upon by Americans
 * 36) the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”
 * 37) there are 13,092 forks, knives, and spoons in the White House
 * 38) the most common name in the world is Mohammed
 * 39) during his or her lifetime, the average American will grow 590 miles of hair
 * 40) the furthest recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet
 * 41) there are three golf balls on the moon
 * 42) the most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001
 * 43) the most common time for a bank robbery is on Friday, between 9 and 11 AM
 * 44) the least common time for a bank robbery is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 PM
 * 45) it is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk
 * 46) honey is the only food that will never spoil
 * 47) you are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark
 * 48) 9 out of 10 victims of lightning strikes survive
 * 49) the dot over the letter i is called a “tittle”
 * 50) the piece of plastic on the end of a shoelace is called an “aglet”
 * 51) the height of your head is 1/8 the height of your body
 * 52) there have been numerous cases of turkeys looking up at the sky during rainstorms and drowning as a result
 * 53) most tropical marine fish could live inside a tank filled with human blood
 * 54) the first hard drive available for the Apple II had a storage capacity of only 5 megabytes
 * 55) a man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted
 * 56) a toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria when the toilet is flushed
 * 57) the world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old
 * 58) elephants are the only land creatures other than humans that can cry
 * 59) about 25% of the energy your body uses is used by your brain
 * 60) more fish swim in the Amazon River than in the Atlantic Ocean
 * 61) shrimp undergo natural sex changes during their life- often multiple times
 * 62) the name of the hole in a pencil sharpener is a “chuck”
 * 63) the video game Manhunt was so violent that it has the distinction of being the first ever video game banned from New Zealand
 * 64) only 1% of the American population can lick their elbow
 * 65) it would take you over 3,000 years to count from 1 to 1 trillion
 * 66) 1 out of 26 American can’t walk backwards
 * 67) a mayfly is born, gives birth, and dies in only one day
 * 68) in Germany, highways don’t have speed limits
 * 69) Mel Blanc, the voice actor for Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots
 * 70) Walt Disney, maker of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice
 * 71) Mickey Mouse, contrary to popular belief, was not Disney’s original mascot- the original mascot was named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; however, Disney lost the rights for Oswald in 1928 to NBC/Universal
 * 72) the longest word in the world is 1,185 letters long
 * 73) more people in the world drink goat’s milk than cow’s milk
 * 74) there is a city named “Rome” on every continent
 * 75) Europe is the only continent without a desert (Antarctica is a desert tundra)
 * 76) there are enough Lego bricks in the world for every person in the world to receive 53 bricks
 * 77) only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star
 * 78) 80% of millionaires drive used cars
 * 79) the first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
 * 80) the first book ever printed with a printing press was the Bible
 * 81) the Bible is also the most widely read and best selling book in the world
 * 82) you inhale around 700,000 of your own skin flakes every day
 * 83) most of the time, you breathe through only one nostril at a time
 * 84) “dreamt” is the only word in the English language to end in “mt”
 * 85) studies have shown that when you are thinking up a lie, you tend to look up and to the left (upper left)
 * 86) Californiahas issued at least 6 drivers licences to people named Jesus Christ
 * 87) the estimated number of M&Ms sold each day in the United States alone is 200 million
 * 88) a man named Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, which contains over 50,000 words- none of which contain the letter e
 * 89) 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts
 * 90) in Scrabble, the most valuable word you can spell is “quartzy”
 * 91) the longest amount of time anyone went to jail for playing a video game was one month, when a man was arrested for playing Tetris on his mobile phone while on an airplane
 * 92) 18% of the US population cannot roll their tongue into a “U” shape
 * 93) no matter how hard you may try, it is impossible for you to kill yourself by holding your breath
 * 94) suicide statistics have shown that Monday is the favorite day for self destruction
 * 95) the US has 6 flags on the moon; they are all made of cloth or nylon, but have a wire frame around them to make it look like they’re flapping- if they didn’t have this frame, they would simply hang limp (no wind on the moon…)
 * 96) hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiais the fear of long words
 * 97) American car horns beep in the tone of “F”
 * 98) in Chinese, “Coca Cola” translates to “make mouth happy”
 * 99) the mosquito causes the most deaths out of any insect
 * 100) the lighter was invented before the match
 * 101) Ben-Hur, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Titanic have earned more academy awards than any other movie- 11

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