Useless Facts
*Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
*Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
*The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in
Greece has memorised all 158 verses.
*There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
*The average secretary'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 members 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's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated
to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
*A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
*An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
*Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
*In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
*Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
*The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
*When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football
at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
*The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
*A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
*A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
*On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a
spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
*It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
*The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
*Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme?
Paul Reiser himself.
*In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
*The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when
the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and
saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
*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.
*John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
*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.
*Typewriter is the only ten letter word you can type on the
top of your keyboard.
