Useless Facts

A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A elephant is the heavest of all land mammals at around 8,000 pounds.

A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A man had the hiccups for 69 years.

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of it's body.

A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.

A monkey was once tride and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,Indiana.

A noisy resturant is 100,000 times as lound as a watch ticking. Rock Consert 1,000,000,000 times as loud. Loud headphones 10,000,000,000. Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.

A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt lightbulb

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A Penny whistle has six finger holes.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champange will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A rat can last longer with out water than a camel.

A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.

A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week

A silicon chip a quarter inch square has the capacity of the orignal 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.

A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000 gallons of moisture.

A snail can have about 25,000 teeth

A group of toads is called a knot.

About 3,500 gallons if water is needed to produce one pound of beef.

About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were thirty.

About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.

About 85% of the plant life on the Earth is in the ocean.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

A starfish can turn its self inside out.

A ten gallon hat holds three quarters of a gallon.

A toothpick is the object most often chocked on by Americans.

A Walla Walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background when they say walla walla it looks like they are actually talking.

A whales heart beats only nine times a minute.

A woodchuck breathers only ten times during hibernation.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

Anteaters prefers termites to ants.

Ants stretch before they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

All 17 children of Queen Anne dies before she did.

All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as a large ocean liner.

A group of Unicorns is called a blessing.

According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of ‘clean’ animal in to the ark.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates is food and then eats it again.

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

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world combined.

Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

Catgut comes from sheep not cats.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.

A group of whales is called a pod.

Abraham Lincoln was the only US president ever granted a patent.

According to Genesis 1:2022 the chicken came before the egg.

Children grow more in the springtime.

Chopsuey is not a native Chinese dish, it was crafted in California by Chinese immigrants.

Chrysler built B29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over head.

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

During a life time, one person generates more than 1000 pounds of red blood cells.

At age 16 Confucius was a corn inspector.

Armored knights raised their visors to themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.

If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a depth of 12 000 feet.

If you are chased by a crocodile, run zigzag, a crocodile is not good at making sharp turns.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

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.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

In Greene, new york, you cannot walk backwards and eat peanuts on teh sidewalk during a concert.

In Hardford, Connecut, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands.

In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.

In ancient Greece, where the mouse was sacred to Apollo, mice were sometimes devoured by temple priests.

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 cam be jailed for cheating on their finals.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

In Casablanka, humphrey Bogart never said Play it again, Sam.

In eighteenth century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships.

In eighteenth century English gambling dens, there was an empolyee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

In England, in the 1800's pants was considered a dirty word.

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