Welcome to Pretty Useless facts. Here at Giveaway Blogdom I get a kick out of useless facts. I think everybody should know that more Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the entire world and more. Come back every week to have a little laugh and gain a few more good wrinkles in your brain.
~ More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
~ Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920’s.
~ Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.
~ When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph. During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping one’s eyes open during a sneeze.
~ Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency.
~ THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss ‘Rita Thunderbird’ remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.
~ Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
~ The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
~ In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.
~ The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.
