Useless Random Facts!

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Dog owners in Turin ,Italy can be fined up to $650 if they dont walk their dogs at LEAST 3 times a day.

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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.

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If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs, the price on the world market would increase by 80%

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The inventor of the waffle iron did not like waffles.

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In the average lifetime people will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.

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Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attactive to females.

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Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds ,while dogs can only make about 10.

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Walt Disney, The creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.

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No one knows where Motzart is buried.

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Children are more allergic to cockroaches then they are to cats.

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Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.

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Kilts are not native to Scottland. They originated in France.

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Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.

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The odds of getting a Hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000 to 1.

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Anteaters prefer Termites to ants.

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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west then West Virginia.

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About 1 in 30 people in the US are , in jail, on probation. or on parole.

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Worms reportedly taste like bacon...Ewww.

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A woman's sense of smell is most sensitive during ovulation.

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At birth a panda bear is smaller then a mouse.

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Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.

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Leonardo DiCaprio got his first on screen kiss from a man.

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The average NFL players career lasts only 3 1/2 years.

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From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One race car for about 30ft.

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Forensic scientists can determine a person's , sex, age and race , by examining a single strand of hair.

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If Walmart was classified as a country,it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.

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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds.

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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

WOW!!

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Some toothpastes and deoderants contain the same chemicals found in anti freeze.

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While humans and most species are divided into only 2 sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes.

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The word "News" is accually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points, North, East, West, South.

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Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

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Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.

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A Dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

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80% of Americans will be a victim of a violent crime at least once in their lifetime.

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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.

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More Monopoly money is printed in a year, then real money printed throughout the world.

Wow! Really interesting!

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A Snail can sleep for 3 years.

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Woman who read romance novels are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners when woman who don't read romance novels.

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80% of 10 years old girls in the US go on a diet.

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The Lungfish can live out of water for 3 years in a state of suspended animation.

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A Cow give nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

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Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts over the next hour.

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Nike Air Soles do not actually have air in them.

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18% of an american's income is spent on transportation.

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Streets in Japan do not have names.

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Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

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Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.

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The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

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If you cut off a snails eye, it will grow a new one.

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The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

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A Million dollars worth of $$100 bills weighs only 22 pounds.

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No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.

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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more then the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks and spectator sports combined.

oh well, never know when they may come in useful. lol

Great Thread Here. I have compiled quite a bit of these. Here are 50.

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

3. The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.

5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.

7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

10. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

17. The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.

18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

19. A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

24. The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

26. The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

28. Camel’s have three eyelids.

29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

30. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.

31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name “soyce”.

39. Slugs have four noses.

40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called “Solarmax”.

49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

50. Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

Awesome add Onecrunch. I love learning random facts like this.

The standard 100g bar of chocolate contains (on average) 6 SIX insect legs.

I's kill for a Herseys Kiss right now.

Yeah, You can never get enough of those Kisses.
Right now I'm craving for KISSES!!!

Mmmmmm, kisses! Doh!

I've tried American chocolate and all I can say is English chocolate, especially Cadburys Dairy Milk is far superior just ask anyone who's ever been to the UK.

I know you'll think this is sacrilege, but you can't comment unless you've tried both.

129joe wrote:

I've tried American chocolate and all I can say is English chocolate, especially Cadburys Dairy Milk is far superior just ask anyone who's ever been to the UK.

I know you'll think this is sacrilege, but you can't comment unless you've tried both.

Amen

the best chocolate is bourville dark yummy scrummy !!!!!

Oooh Cadbury's Milk chocolate..Yum!

The longest official city name in the world is:-

Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit.

It is the official name of Bangkok, Thailand.

When reading horizontally from Shakespeares original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads "I am a homosexual" in the last 14 lines of the book.

Was this a message or just coincidence?

Did you know that Olympic gold medals are not made of gold------what a rip off.

LOL I kinda knew that fishes. That is kinda shabbadabby eh?

Oh my goodness! I never saw this thread. I can't wait until my husband gets up tomorrow. He is the king of useless facts! He says his head is a Crap Trap. He claims he can't remember the important things, just the things that doesn't matter. U wouldn't believe some of the things he knows.

I will have to inquire some of those useless facts, and share some with ya guys.