20 Useless Facts

[kor]

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .
10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
13. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

 

[Talmann]

12. can be useful in a case of survival...

[kor]

Ok so they're Mostly Useless Facts. 

[Ryazania]

I envy pigs now.

[Khablan]

Dang.  Why was I not born a pig.

[Talmann]

The next time someone tries to insult you by calling you a pig, tell them thank you and see their reaction...

[Trey]

The next time someone tries to insult you by calling you a pig, tell them thank you and see their reaction...

GOLD.

21. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a complete, grammatically correct sentence.

[Xyrael]

22. Columbia has the highest murder rate in the world. Coincidentally, surveys show that Columbian people are also the happiest.

[Prydania]

23. The Phantom's full name (from The Phantom of the Opera) is Erik Destler.
24. The first national anthem of the United States was Hail Columbia by Philip Phile.
25. The national anthem of the Confederate States of America, I Wish I Was in Dixie, was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett, a northerner from Ohio. He was very upset that the rebellious Confederacy adopted his song as their national anthem.
26. The first nation other then Canada to win a gold medal in ice hockey at the Olympics was Great Britain, who won the gold during the 1936 games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The Brits defeated the Canucks in the gold medal game 1-0.

[Trey]

27. Rapper Flavor Flav's real name is William Drayton.

[Prydania]

28. Most of the personalities for the Transformers debuted in the 1986 animated film were based on the personalities of the 1985 Super Bowl XX champions Chicago Bears.

[Myroria]

29. There are only 45 minutes of dialouge in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
30. (Only makes sense if you RP) Another name for Troy was Ilium, and the king that took Helen was named Menelaus.

[Trey]

28. Most of the personalities for the Transformers debuted in the 1986 animated film were based on the personalities of the 1985 Super Bowl XX champions Chicago Bears.

31. Orson Welles' last role was as the voice of Unicron in Transformers: The Movie.  Rumors persist that he didn't finish all of his lines and that Leonard Nimoy filled in for him; the filmmakers refute that claim.

Oh, so that's why I found 2001 so boring when I was 9.  I need to watch it again, since I have more patience and appreciation for that style of film-making now.

[kor]

32. It has been determined that one brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.

33. In 1884 evaporated milk was patented by John Mayenburg of St Louis, Missouri, America.

34. There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.

34. 27 November 1893 New Zealand went to the polls and for the first time in a national election anywhere in the world, women voted too.

35. In 1948 the first Polaroid cameras went on sale in Boston, Massachusetts, America.

36. All horse racing was banned in Britain because of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 1967.

37. A 15th-century Bible was sold at Christie's in London to a New York antiquarian bookseller for $2 million (£1.1 million) in 1991.

38. A rhinoceros has three toes on each foot.

39. In November 1983 thieves broke into the Brinks-Mat security warehouse at Heathrow Airport, London, England, and stole £25 million, ($46 million) worth of gold bullion.

40. Simple, moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels to such an extent that it takes 4 to 15 months for them to return to their normal condition.

41. 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies assuming that all the offspring survived.

42. There are on average 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas. Essential to the balance of nature, spiders annually consume a hundred times their number in insects.

43. The world's most dangerous jellyfish is Australia's box jelly; its toxin is more potent than cobra venom and can kill a person in minutes.

44. The anaconda, which is one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.

45. 80% of the average human brain is water.

46. Because of their extreme elasticity, the lungs are 100 times easier to blow up than a child's toy balloon.

47. A French survey in 1997 found that blue or green-eyed women have the greatest chance of reaching 120!

49. Warsaw, Poland opened the world's first public library in 1747.

50. The ostrich has only two toes, unlike most birds, which have three or four.