Pretty Useless Facts Sunday

~  Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west. 


~  In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.

~  Only female mosquito’s’ bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.  

~  The ‘Golden Arches’ of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of Christianity.  

~  This common everyday occurrence composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide is called a ‘fart’.  

~  In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government subsidized housing.
 
~  If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 

~  Moon was Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)


~  Dr. Jack Kevorkian first patient had Alzheimer’s disease.

~  Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


vEvery night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.


~  Abe Silverstein, who headed NASA’s Space Flight Development Program, proposed the name Apollo for the space exploration programs in the 1960’s. He chose that legendary Greek name because the virile Apollo was a god who rode through the skies in a magnificent golden chariot. The precedent of naming manned spacecraft for mythological gods had been set earlier with Project Mercury, also named by Silverstein.


~  In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds. 
 
~  Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

~  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 


~  If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.  
 
~  One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

~  Butterflies taste with their hind feet. 


~  Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land.  Although they are rapid, they are not agile.  So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.  

~  Ants closely resemble human manners:  When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.  

~  Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana.