RANDOM Useless FACTS
1. 22% of people leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink. 2. A baseball has exactly 108 stitches. 3. A mosquito has 47 teeth. 4. A snail can sleep for 3 years. 5. A Snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1 mile. 6. A Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. 7. American car horns beep in the tone of F. 8. American car horns beep in the tone of F. 9. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. 10. Canadians eat more Kraft macaroni and cheese packaged dinners than any nationality in the world. 11. During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water! 12. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 13. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden. 14. If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode. 15. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! 16. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 17. In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin. 18. In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people''s clothes. 19. In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. 20. In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world. 21. Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution. 22. Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do. 23. It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon. 24. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 25. Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process. 26. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards. 27. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. 28. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning. 29. Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation. 30. No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. 31. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 32. Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world''s first billionaire. 33. Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry. 34. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 35. Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards. 36. The average yawn lasts six seconds. 37. The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'. 38. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. 39. The first toilet ever seen on television was on ''Leave It To Beaver.'' 40. The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp. 41. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. 42. The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001. 43. The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour. 44. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 45. There are 284 restrooms along the 17.5 miles of corridors in the Pentagon. 46. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. 47. There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400. 48. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 49. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.