Entertainment50 Useless Facts
Sun, Mar 3 2007Maybe you will learn something - maybe not, still here are 50 useless facts about everything and nothing.
- In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
- Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
- Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
- The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
- You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
- It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
- About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
- There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
- Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
- Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
- Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
- Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
- Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
- The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.
- The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
- You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
- Bubble gum contains rubber.
- A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
- Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
- Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
- In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
- Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
- In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
- Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
- A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
- Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
- Some toothpaste contains antifreeze.
- Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark (hence, the light bulb).
- The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
- The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
- Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
- About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
- Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
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