Interesting... But Completely Useless Facts - Part 2
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray
blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least
6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting
from the flush.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute
for blood plasma.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years
of age or older.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's
first flight.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1
olive from each salad served in first-class.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up
in the morning.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like
being seen wearing them in public.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for
dating are already married.
- The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro,
Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
- The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the
days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were
stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up
straight staircases.
- Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose
name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."
The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all
of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens
every year.
- On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- 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.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their
bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
- Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their
elbow.
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