Useless Information

 

á  A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

á  A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

á  A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

á  A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

á  A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

á  A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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

á  A snail can sleep for three years.

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

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

á  Almonds are a member of the peach family.

á  An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

á  Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

á  It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

á  Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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

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

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

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

á  Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

á  Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

á  "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

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

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

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

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

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

á  The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

á  There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

á  There are more chickens than people in the world.

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

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

á  There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

á  Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

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

á  STEWARDESSES is the longest word that can be typed using one hand on the keyboard.

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

á  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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