Pretty Useless Facts Sunday

~ Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

~ In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

~ The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

~ A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

~ A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

~ A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

~ In the 1983 film “JAWS 3D” the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.

~ The numbers ‘172’ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

~ The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”

~ More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

~ The the U.S. you dial ‘911’. In Stockholm, Sweden you dial 90000

~ Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

~ The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

~ There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

~ Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other

~ Daffy Duck’s middle name is “Dumas”

~ In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field