useless facts
 

anyone got any useless facts to share
here are some to start off with

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
A ****roach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

now you lot add some of your own

• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

• Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

• Coca-Cola was originally green.

• The youngest pope was 11 years old.

• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

• Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

• The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6, 400

• The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61, 000

• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

the first vacuum was so large it was brought to a house by horses.

got that off a snapple cap.

The strongest muscle in a womans body is a mans penis.

*runs like the wind to avoid female fury*

This is the only place in the world where you'll find Doro Pesch and 24/7 Spy on the same page.

*isn't eating chocolate again*
...*until I forget about that*

Termites chew wood faster while listening to heavy metal.

Barney the dinosaur is from Dallas.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. [great one]

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

Werrrd.

Mindfuck.
Is this because of those cocoa beans then?

no they don't, maybe just in english
so it depends on the language

American President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) used to like Vaseline being rubbed on his head while he ate breakfast in bed.

Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavoured ice cream produced. However, they discontinued it since they thought it would not sell well.

A slug has four noses.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.

In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball

A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted.

In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !! (apologies to sufferers)

Ahahaha...bet they felt stupid after that

'A jellyfish is 95 percent water. '
'About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. '
'Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, 'Gadsby', which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E. '
“America once issued a 5-cent bill. '
'A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth. '
'123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways. '
'On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime. '
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. '
“In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word. '
'Rats and horses can't vomit. '
'It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska. '
'Slugs have 4 noses. '
'Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. '
'Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
'It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. '
'Clinophobia is the fear of beds. '
'Dogs can hear sounds that you cant. '
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. '
'You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. Wow. '
'A pregnant goldfish is called a twit '
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. '
'Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow. '
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. '
'Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. '
'23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks. '
'Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland. '
'Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. ' Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. '
'Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. '
'Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for three hours. '
'The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum. '
'During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants. '
'A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. '
'Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight. '
'The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. '
'The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. '
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was, ironically, allergic to carrots. '
'More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. '
'Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. '
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles? '
'Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. '
'Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland. '
'Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. '
'Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. '
'Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive. '
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year. '
'Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs have about 10. '
'Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings. '
'Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints. '
'Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee. '
'A snail can sleep for three years.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open. '
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth. '
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. '
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'. '
'The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. '
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing. '
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons. '
Most lipstick contains fish scales. '
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though
'If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the lenght of a normal human.'
'It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland. '
'An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. '
'If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. '
'Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. '
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years '
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them. '
'The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head. '
'23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks. '
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. '
'No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. '
'Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day. '
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate. '
'Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
'A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. '
'Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year. '
'Cat's urine glows under a black light. '
'China has more English speakers than the United States. '
'Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas. '
'85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S. '
'There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. '
'Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue. '
'Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions. '
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. '
'Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food. '
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. '
'A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. '
'One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. '
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.Stressed is Desserts Spelt backwards. '
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. '
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S. '
'Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. '
'More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. '
'5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem. '
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones. '
'The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs. '
'The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins. '
'There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year. '
'Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. '
'The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'. '
'By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school. '
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks. '
'If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion. '
'The state of Florida is bigger than England. '
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. '
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night. '
A shrimp's heart is in their head. '
'Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine eye'. '
All polar bears are left handed. '
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. '
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. '
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons. '
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. '
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people. '
Butterflies taste with their feet. '
'Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. '
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy. '
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
There are more chickens than people in the world. '
'A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein. '
'The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs. '
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland. '
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. '
It is impossible to lick your elbow. '
A ****roach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation. '
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month. Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch '
'7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem. '
'A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States. '
'You blink over 10,000,000 times a year. '
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe. '
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. '
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches. '
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes. '
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times. '
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice. '
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. '
Porcupines float in water. '
'The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. '
'It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. '
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.. '
'The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.' uses every letter of the alphabet. '
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces. '
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why. '

koro: a condition where men fear their penises will withdraw into their bodies and kill them.

if you drop alcohol on a scorpion, it will go mad and sting itself to death

i love the word phalange, which is the skin on your elbows

there is no word that rhymes with purple...

and i hope my random facts aren't already up already

I call BS. North America and South America.

just something i found interesting, here are the dates when the world will end (according to the bible and a few other religions), the numbers in parenthases are how many differnt sources list these dates. if theres no number next to the date that means that only one nut predicted it

44 AD
53 AD
80 AD
100-200 AD
130 AD
381 AD
400 AD (2X)
950 AD (4X)
964 AD
965
968-9
969 and/or 980
979
989 August
989-1000
990s
990s-1010s
992
1000 AD (12X)

skip 100 predictions

1987
1988 (5X)
1989 (2X)
1990s
1991 (2X)
1992 (3X)
1993
1994 (6X)
1995
1996 (4X)
Oct 23 1996
1997
1997 or early 98
1998 (12X)
1999 (8X)
2000 (19X)
2001 (5X)
2004 (2X)
2007 (3X)
2012 (4X)
2016
2034
sept 14 2047
Soon (1000X)

dont miss these world ending dates guys. im pretty sure all the ones after 2004 are 100% correct

:laughing:

or didn't die at all.

Several statues were erected (at Gettysberg for example) before the general died or when he died at another battlefield.

i am a complete history dork.

damn straight.

thats like lisp the it has the 4 most common letters for someone to have a problem pronouncing

all snakes have a different sclae pantern on there head(i breed snakes)

the largest snow flake ever found was 27 inchs in diameter

gods name translates to jelous

scientest are recrating the 1918 flu

the u.s. inpresins more of its population than any other country

the u.s. runs a network of atleast 20 secret prisons( i mentioned that to someone who used to work in places like that he just laghed at me and said there were way more than 20 and wha they do is capture someone take to some forin country interigate them the drop them of somewhere else where they've never been

porn is as old as the human race

the goverment has a database of every child porn imeage ever found by the goverment

I have 27.5 daughters and...

It's open-ended. You decide.

If you re-arange Vin diesels name it spells out I End Lives

you need to stop reading those conspiracy theory books. and learn how to ****ing spell.

- Ohio state law prohibits getting a fish drunk.

- In Fairbanks, Alaska, it's illegal to feed a moose any alcohol beverage.

- It's illegal to sit on any street curb in St. Louis, Missouri, and drink beer from a bucket.

- The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.

- According to the famous writer H. L. Mencken, 17,864,392,788 different cocktails could be make from the ingredients in a well-stocked bar.

- Rum was issued daily to every sailor in the British Navy from 1651 until 1970.

- Men in the U.S. who drink alcohol receive about 7% higher wages than do abstainers.

- in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving.

- The more educated people are, the more likely they are to drink.

- One glass of milk can give a person a .02 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) on a Breathalyzer test. That’s enough in some states for persons under age 21 to lose their drivers license and be fined.

- Alcohol is considered the only proper payment for teachers among the Lepcha people of Tibet.

- Methyphobia is fear of alcohol.

- "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is commonly believed to be the only English sentence devised to include all the letters of the alphabet. However, typesetters have another such sentence: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."

- There is a cloud of alcohol in outer space with enough alcohol to make four trillion-trillion drinks. It's free for the taking. . . but it's 10,000 light years away from Earth.

- In Malaysia, drunk drivers are jailed and so are their spouses.

- British men have been found twice as likely to know the price of their beer as their partner's bra size.

sorry i cant spell:o: it kind of runs in the family

Axl Rose
Oral Sex

Your brain is 80% water.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Queen Victoria was the first European monarch to use a telephone.

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

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

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

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, by the year 2010 one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

If you started counting, and said one number every second, it would take you 33 years to get to 1 billion.

The only country whose name begins with an A but doesn't end in an A is Afghanastan.

The mad Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

There is a 1 in 685,000 chance that you will accidentally drown in your own bath.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

As you Americans say...Damn straight!


*Begins work on space craft capable of light speed*

Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lif****z.

blueberry jelly bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

there is a town in Alaska simply called "Eek"

Tom Morello's uncle is Nelson Mandela

If you take the fist letter in Levi and put it on the end is spells Evil

there are over 10 million pastafarians

Pubic Lice are different from regular hair lice

You could be eating beef from a cow with cancer

There are 8,260 members on this forum

a chickens right leg is bigger than its left

turkeys have a very good chance of dying if it rains.

milkthistle helps female hormonal problems

Yet he always wore a towel when he came out of the shower! Its madness..

The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology

Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.

The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."

Jazz fans and gun owners are among the most sexually active Americans.

Humans are the only species on earth that have face-to-face sex.

The origin of the English word "orgasm" derives from the Greek, "orgaein," meaning "to swell" or "be excited or lustful."

The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.