Ok I admit it I am highly entertained by useless facts. I usually can’t remember them but generally think they are hilarious or interesting in the least. Happy Sunday!
~ A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
~ One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
~ Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
~ Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
~ Simplistic passwords contribute to over 80% of all computer password break-ins.
~ Babies are most likely to be born on Tuesdays.
~ Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.
~ Most collect calls are made on father’s day.
~ In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
~ Spain leads the world in cork production
~ Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates.
~ You can’t plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
~ In Lehigh, Nebraska it’s against the law to sell donut holes.
~ Mosquito’s have 47 teeth.
~ All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
~ In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden…. and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
~ The original game of “Monopoly” was circular.
~ TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
~ It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
~ The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
~ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
~ More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
~ The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
3 COMMENTS
AimeeKay
14 years agoI love useless trivia! It always makes me smile! Thanks for the pick me up on this rainy Monday!
Brandy, April, and Amanda
14 years agoAnonymous-
I hope to start this every Sunday. These things crack me up and we can all use a little humor to start our Monday's off. Enjoy and I am glad you like!
Anonymous
14 years agoThis is hilarious! Are you going to do this every Sunday – I hope so!!