Poll: what do You think of these 100 useless facts?

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.

5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.

7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

22. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa L?wenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

28. Camel's have three eyelids.

29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".

39. Slugs have four noses.

40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

46. About 200,000,000 M%26amp;Ms are sold each day in the United States.

47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".

49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dPoll: what do You think of these 100 useless facts?
1. Crazy

2. Then they should make gud clothes

3. I love pickles!!

4. We are wasteful

5. Thats interesting

6. I used to wonder why it never happened

7. Alwayz watch your bck

8. Never knew that

9. They was blazin bck den??!!

10. ha ha i's have "tiddies"....

11. Science

12. ^-^

13. aww and my fav number times two is 4 (sadness)

14. that is an extreme sex addiction

15. and they wonder why most prostitutes are cheap

16. lik most still do now

17. oh oka that makes since

18. to bad dey stopped that

19. wow ppl are lazy

20. that is really not suprising

21. why did i never know that??

22. that's why kids are so fat nowadayz

23. hmmm....

24. that's kinda creepy when u think about it

25. and dey wonder why so mny are illiterate

26. i jus had to check dis out

27. retarded kids and blood line

28. dats practical

29. pplz need to get it together

30. IRONIC??

31. dont even know who they are

32. all except mine

33. hmm??

34. that is jus to much work

35. most profitable job ever doe

36. dats why i dnt use it

37. would love to see it in action

38. so we just effed it all up??

39. just more places for my salt to enter their bodies

40. because it works wonders

41. i never knew or wondered it eitha

42. well since they are worshiped--

43. that is common sense-- which most people dont have

44. wow....

45. eww they are nasty anywayz.... and how expensive were these olives

46. because they are addictive like pringles

47. ha ha splinters!!

48. ummm.... yeah....

49. and dat is exactly why i dnt knw how to play

50. umm okay im lost on that one

51. u dnt need to know how fast ur losing money

52. but why doe??
Awesome. Thanks for that useless bit of knowledge.Poll: what do You think of these 100 useless facts?
I think they're pretty...useless!Poll: what do You think of these 100 useless facts?
I'm not doing your homework
Okay. I read them all, and I knew about 10 of them. Where's mah cookie?! :)
i think i just shitt myslef
cool



I have a hard time believing number 7 though
9 Really!!!!!No wonder it's under lock and key,that would be a mean smoke by now.
I love useless crap like this!



You would like a book called, "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" It's full of stuff like this.
I have more questions to answer

I dont have time to read that