Woohoo! Interesting, but Useless Facts Time!
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
If you bang your head against a wall for a hour, you'll burn about 150 calories.
(Don't try this Edgar)
That's only part one of my useless facts. I'll have more up soon.
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