Useless Facts

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. (otherwise known as a wedding)

40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled. (I threw that one away!)

John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.

Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

Slugs have four noses.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
(Please do not try this!!)

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

The numbers “172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Good to Know)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. (Take that Chuck Norris)

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Figures)

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000. (What a bargain)

$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.

Rats and horses can’t vomit.

“101 Dalmatians” and “Peter Pan” are the only Disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. (Thats why I dont drink the stuff)

An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (Who figured that out?)

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. (The game would never begin)

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (My household is doomed)

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.

You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)

In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. (Oops, sorry for the confusion)

Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.

Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.

Now that you have gone through the list it is up to you to figure out which facts are true and which facts are false.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone couldkey it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop