More Useless trivia

 

·        On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

·        On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

·        In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

·        Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

·        Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

·        Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

·        A snail can sleep for three years.

·        No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

·        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.

·        "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. “I Am” is the shortest sentence in the bible.

·        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.

·        The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

·        The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

·        Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

·        Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

·        Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

·        The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

·        The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

·        Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

·        Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.

·        Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.

·        Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.

·        The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.

·        The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.

·        Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

·        Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.

 

Published Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:28 AM by dhite
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