A lot of trivial information that could come in handy someday...
So you think you know verything...
Here is a list of useless information, usless that is unless you are a contestant on Jeopardy or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, or is playing a game of trivia at a very boring party.
- A American ten cents piece (dime) has 118 ridges around the outside circumference.
- A Cat has 32 Muscles in each ear.
- A Crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- Dragonflies have a life span of 24-hours.
- Goldfish have a memory span of 3-seconds.
- A Jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Some species of Shark are the only species of fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A Snail can sleep for three years.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- An Ostrich’s eye is bigger than their brain.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Cats have over 100 vocal sounds while dogs only have about 10.
- Human babies are born without kneecaps; they don’t appear until the child reaches between 2 and 6 years of age.
- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
- In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
- Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- No word in the English language rhymes with the words month, orange, silver or purple.
- Human eyes are always the same size from birth.
- Human noses and ears never stop growing.
- Peanuts are but one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- Rubber bands last longer if you keep them refrigerated.
- ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed using only the left hand and ‘Lollipop’ using only your right.
- The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- The words 'race car,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
- Pigs have orgasms that lasts for up to thirty-minutes.
- There are 293 ways to make change for an American dollar.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
- There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- ‘Typewriter’ is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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