Question:
Funny, random, useless facts?!?
Jaylene K
2009-08-13 20:48:39 UTC
my best frind and i are having a useless facts competition tomorrow. got anything?!
pleaseee!!!!
i will love you foreverrrr.
Nine answers:
anonymous
2009-08-13 21:16:26 UTC
An Orgasm burns 200 calories per episode,



On average the adult male thinks about sex every 7 seconds



the first recorded condom use was by the love addict casanova and they were made of linen.



the name wendy didnt exist until the book peter pan



Hydroxydeoxycarticostarones is the largest anagram in the US language.



A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.



underground is the only word in the US language that begins and ends with "und"









your gonna win ;)
Gray
2009-08-13 23:10:53 UTC
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable

The state of Florida is bigger than England

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year

Males sweat 40% more than females

Spiders have transparent blood

Pain travels through your body at 350 ft per second

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning

The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet

Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening

Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes

You can start a fire with ice

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland

Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day

Frogs cannot swallow without blinking

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland

Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace
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2016-02-29 03:14:46 UTC
The male pig has a penis shaped like a cork screw, and they will have an orgasm that lasts for half an hour!! I'm thinking I might like to come back as a pig in my next life! lol ~ A couple of other interesting ones... there are 31 billion searches on google each month. ~ The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992. Today the number of text messages sent and recieved everyday, exceeds the total population of the planet... ~ There are 200 million registered users on Myspace. If myspace were a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world between Indonesia and Brazil. ~ Cats will land on their feet if dropped from somewhere high. AMAZING hey??!!
yodaisypo
2009-08-13 21:01:21 UTC
India use to be the richest country in the world before the Bristish attacked in the 17th century.



The first astronaut (Neil Armstrong) stepped on the moon with his left foot.



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



Mark Twain's (An author who wrote Huckleberry Finn) real name is Samuel Clemens.



The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
CottonTail
2009-08-13 21:24:31 UTC
In the early-to-mid 1900's it was illegal to be "found ugly" on the streets of some mainstream American cities like Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Municipal Code, sec. 36034) and Omaha, Nebraska (Unsightly Beggar Ordinance Nebraska Municipal Code of 1941, sec. 25) and Columbus, Ohio (General Offense Code, sec. 2387.04)
Fire Ball
2009-08-13 20:53:11 UTC
a sneeze comes out of you at over 100mph

if you don't close your eyes when you sneeze, they will pop out

if you live to be 100, you will have spent about 25 years of your life in the bathroom
urantiamind02
2009-08-13 21:04:53 UTC
if you fart in a freezer it smells more.

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

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 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.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

Currently one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter P
B0B
2009-08-13 21:34:03 UTC
We all have twenty nails we can't hammer.
Volusian
2009-08-14 07:51:01 UTC
Some of these can be asked as TRUE or FALSE, the others require a specific answer.



ALL blue-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-511473/All-blue-eyed-people-traced-ancestor-lived-10-000-years-ago-near-Black-Sea.html



In Nathaniel Philbrick’s former best selling book, ‘Mayflower,’ it is estimated there are 35 million Americans who are descendents of the original Mayflower passengers.



Wint-O-Green Life Savers will spark when you bite or hammer them in the dark.



There are over 14 TRILLION UNUSED flyer MILES.



The Starbucks coffee chain is named after the first mate, Starbuck, in Herman Melville’s classic novel, ‘Moby Dick.’



The very first fast food chain to introduce a drive up service window was Jack In the Box in 1951.



The Thirty Years’ War lasted 30 years.

The Hundred Years’ War lasted 116 years.



Catgut comes from sheep and horses.



A camel's hair brush is made of squirrel fur.



The ‘black boxes’ in commercial airplanes are orange.



The official language of Brazil is Portuguese



The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after dogs.



One in four PUREBRED dogs in America has a genetic problem.



A purple finch is actually crimson.



Panama Hats are made in Ecuador.



Georgia is the only U.S. state named after a king - England's King George II.



Georgia’s nickname, The Peach State,’ may be a misnomer. Both California (#1) and South Carolina (#2) each produce more peaches annually than Georgia (#3).



The state of Wyoming is named after the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.



Chicago, Illinois, nicknamed ‘The Windy City,’ ranks twenty-first on the list of the 68 windiest cities. (It has nothing to do with weather but rather makes reference to Chicago’s blustery and ‘windy’ politicians of an earlier era.)



The MOST densely populated state in the U.S. is New Jersey with an average of 1,143.9 people per square mile.



The LEAST densely populated state in the U.S. is Alaska with an average of 1.1 people per square mile.



Alaska has 33,904 miles of coastline.



Kaskaskia, Illinois, Illinois' first state capital, is WEST of the Mississippi River. The entire rest of Illinois lies EAST of the Mississippi River.



Reno, Nevada is farther west than San Diego, California



Minnesota is farther north than Maine.



The Cincinnati, Ohio airport is in Kentucky.



The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey.



You can snow ski and snowboard in Hawaii.



60% of all alcohol sold in the U.S. is consumed by 10% of those people who drink alcoholic beverages.

80% of all the wine sold in the U.S. is consumed by 11% of those people who drink alcoholic beverages.

All 50 states in the USA have wineries.

California is largest wine producer in the USA followed by New York State (#2) and Washington State (#3).

Bourbon is the official spirit of the United States by Act of Congress in 1964.

Chicago, Illinois has the most bars per capita of any major city.



Fed Ex delivers 6,000,000 +- (6 million) packages a day



Seven Lego sets are sold every second by retailers worldwide.



A Barbie Doll is sold every three seconds worldwide.



Approximately 400,000 people each year are bitten by venomous snakes; approximately half of them will die. (The majority of these people live in Asia and Africa.)



George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, devised the word ‘Kodak.’ The letter “K’ was his favorite letter of the alphabet, calling it “a strong, incisive sort of letter.” The remaining letters in the name were chosen using an anagram playset.



Wal-Mart is the second largest employer is the U.S. (The U.S. Government is #1.)



Annually, more steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than is used in the manufacture of automobiles. (SOURCE: History Channel – Modern Marvels – STEEL)



The very first VIDEO CONFERENCE telephone call was made in 1927 by President Herbert ‘A chicken in every pot’ Hoover from his office in Washington, DC to New York City.



The very first college football game was played on November 6, 1869 in which Rutgers University defeated Princeton University by a score of 6 to 4 at Rutgers’ campus in New Brunswick, NJ.



The most-lopsided game in the history of college football occurred on October 7, 1916 when the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeated the Cumberland College (now University) Bulldogs of Tennessee by a final score of 222 to 0.



The very first televised football game, pro or college, took place September 30, 1939 when the Fordham University Rams of New York defeated the Waynesburg College (now University) Yellow Jackets of Pennsylvania by a score of 34-7.



The average length of a player’s career in the NFL is 3 ½ years.



“Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud” is the brand name of the ONE and ONLY rubbing mud that is used by ALL major and minor league baseball teams and some colleges before games to rub up baseballs to remove the new ball shine/sheen/slipperiness. No other mud will do. It is ‘harvested’ from a secret location in a New Jersey tributary of the Delaware River.



In baseball, a 400-foot home run ‘BLAST’ hit to ‘DEEP’ center field is a 133-yard shot in golf, a distance that most weekend duffers make using either a wedge, 9 or 8 iron.



1 in 7 or almost 14% of adult Americans are illiterate.



18% or almost 1 in 5 married couples in the U.S. fail to reach their 5th anniversary.



1 in every 100 American ADULTS is now in jail or prison (91% are male and 9% female).



According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated one in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.



Over 99% of species that ever lived are extinct.


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