utterlyuselessfacts

#1. A cockroach can survive for 12 hours after decapitation, before dying of starvation.

#2. A semibreve is four beats.

#3. And a semi-quaver is half a beat, or half of a cheesy crisp.

#4. Sesquipedalian means 18 inches long.

#5. Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest word in the English language. It means to make out as if something is worth nothing.

#6. The fine for landing on Mayfair with a hotel is �2000.

#7. No Italian word ends in a constonant.

#8. Orange does not rhyme with anything.

#9. Neither does mange-tout for that matter.

#10. The distance between any man's nipples is the same. I have no proof for this, but I read somewhere that it is true.

#11. Post-it notes were invented in 1981.

#12. If one byte was worth a second, then a gigabyte would be worth 31.7 years.

#13. Bill Gate's full name is William H Gates the third.

#14. The angular velocity of the world is slowing down (in english this means the days are getting a little bit longer.)

#15. 99 is divisible by 1, 3, 9, 11, 33 and 99 - all of which are divisible by 3 except 1 and 11, which are both numbers containing only the digit 1. Now ain't that useless?

#16. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

#17. Unless there is a flu epedemic.

#18. Or you break your leg.

#19. Or there is an apple shortage.

#20. This is fact #20.

#21. A pig's orgasm can last up to half an hour.

#22. The most choked on object is a toothpick.

#23. If you were to drop a glass bottle out of the top floor of a very high building, you would end up with a broken bottle.

#24. Polar bears are left-handed.

#25. Starfish have 8 eyes - one on the end of each leg.

#26. Coca - Cola was originally green.

#27. A third of all ice cream sold is vanilla.

#28. Eskimos never gamble.

#29. Men get the hiccups more often than women.

#30. Your nose and ears never stop growing.

#31. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

#32. In Japan, watermelons are cubes - they stack better.

#33. The Hawaiian alpabet has 12 letters.

#34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

#35. "Stewardess" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

#36. Rubber bands last longer when they are refrigerated.

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

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

#39. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

#40. A cats ear has 32 muscles.