A List of Entirely Useless Information

Because it's hotter than hell, it's just after midnight, and I'm feeling unusually lethargic and bizarre even for me, I offer:



Strange & Completely Useless Information



--A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

--A snail can sleep for three years.

--Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

--Butterflies taste with their feet.

--Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

--February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

--If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

--In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

--Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.

--No word in the English language rhymes with month.

--Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

--Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

--"Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.

--The cruise liner, QE2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

--The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. (Wait--hold up--what about North America? Or South America? Well, no one said they were correct useless facts.)

--The words 'racecar' and kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

--TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

--Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

--If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

--In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch face, is 10:20.

--The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

--Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

--There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

--There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times, "indivisibility."

--The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

--Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live? That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.

--A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.

--A 'jiffy' is an actualy unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

--Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".

--The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

--The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

--Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.

--It's impossible to lick your elbow.

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

--Rats and horses can't vomit.

--The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language..........try it!

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

--In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

--The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

--Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

--A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

--In the course of an average lifetime, you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. (Eeeew, eeeeewww, fucking EEEEEEEWWWWW!)

--Most lipstick contains fish scales.

--Cat's urine glows under a black light.

--Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

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