Useless Facts

[CMR170889]

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.

[AIDS]

21. CMR170889 has waaaaaaay too much time on his hands.

[Spazosaurus]

problem with number 14...turtle rhymes with purple.

[Qloxx]

I once had a Turtle and he was Purple
Not orange or red
But now he is dead.
Hey it rymes i guess CMR170889 is not the only one with too much time on there hands.

[AIDS]

Actually turtle rhymes with Murtle but not purple. We have just all become too accustomed to the modern day rap artist giving us "near enough" rhymes so it kinda sounds like purple and turtle rhymes but it really doesn't and the fact that we even debating this topic means that we all have too much time on our hands.

[W1nTry]

problem with number 14...turtle rhymes with purple.

Depends on how you define rhyme in the strictest sense...

[Spazosaurus]

Well as long as we done talking about it...lol....Isn't Murtle is a person's name? so technically it is not actually a word per se. How do u really determine what rhymes or not.

[Cross]

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

Fellas you could be NEXT! (runs and hide from the evil donkeys from hell)

[AIDS]

It is a word it just happens to be a proper noun. Many names can be found in the dictionary and have standard meanings (e.g. Dan, Cassandra, Sue, Nick, etc.) But the point I was getting at was that turPle would rhyme with purPle but turTle doesn't because the sound is not quite the same.

[CMR170889]

Sigh would you all just leave the purple turtle alone.........stop making fun of him

 **goes in corner with purple turtle says: "Dont worry little turtle you're safe now from the GATTers."**



BTW  YAY!!!!    I'm not the only one with to much time on my hands.  I'm no longer in a lonely corner.





The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms  like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent. (except Antarctica)

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal  that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 6 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

On average a hedgehog's  heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

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

The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight  of a chicken is 13 seconds

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

[W1nTry]

Dread... some of those belong in the WDMC thread... like:

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child -> Those cheeky french bastards!!!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man -> What was HE doing?

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. -> Crazy white ppl

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it. -> *Blinks*

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! -> I can't even imagine what that must 'look' like to them.. OO_OO

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. -> WDMC???

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! -> That's canabalism on a WHOLE NEXT LEVEL

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not -> Gross

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! ->I Guess he lost it when he died?

[Synchronomyst]

"There is a city called Rome on every continent."


Not Antartica.

"It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open"

It isn't. You can, theoretically, do it and there's a high chance you'll pop your eyes out.

[CMR170889]

Ok so you're correct......but closest thing they have are NASA observatories with strong Roman links.

[New Era Outlaw]

Hate to burst your bubble, but a few of those 'facts' are actually wrong.
For example:

17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Nope. Thomas Edison has dibs on that. He did it to show that alternating current has the potential to kill people.
http://www.snopes.com/science/edison.htm


Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

No, it's not. The only thing that ever was green in Coke production was the bottle.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp


"It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open"

It isn't. You can, theoretically, do it and there's a high chance you'll pop your eyes out.

Yes and no. Yes, a few people are capable of sneezing with their eyes open.
And no, there is no chance whatsoever that your eyes will come out of your head if you do so.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/sneeze.asp

[W1nTry]

It isn't. You can, theoretically, do it and there's a high chance you'll pop your eyes out.

Yes and no. Yes, a few people are capable of sneezing with their eyes open.
And no, there is no chance whatsoever that your eyes will come out of your head if you do so.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/sneeze.asp

Not even that freaky woman who appeared on Oprah who could voluntarily pop her eyes out of her head? I would think in her case it could happen :p

[New Era Outlaw]

She didn't sneeze. And her eyes didn't pop out of her head, they merely bulged when she voluntarily moved her eye muscles. In any case, that's a rare case, and a bad example.

[W1nTry]

I know she didn't sneeze hence 'VOLUNTARILY' :p but that aside, think about it... if she forced her eyelids to stay open.. wouldn't he eyes BULGE out ? :p

[Crixx_Creww]

lol @ wendy was a name invented for the book
that reaalllllllllllll bad!!

i wah invent ah name an have it used for decades and centuries later!!

[rudeboy96]

12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

dat one not so useless nah. If only d lil boy who get eat by one knew that.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article1690634.ece

[Spazosaurus]

Bawwwwww @ rudeboy avatar.