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Here is a bunch of useless facts that will waste 10 minutes of your life.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hanthingy and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The first NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a Superbowl was the St. Louis Rams in 1999.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year.
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year. (which is more than real money printed in a year)
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.
The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.
In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.
Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in U.S. coins without being able to make change for a dollar
If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess
There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper
Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable – it has three.
The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term meaning "for example."
Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds
For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
A thingyroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl.
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The word "and" appears in the Bible 46, 277 times. courtesy of em
On March 29, 1848 Niagra falls completely froze over. courtesy of LavyBrown
Shigaru Myamoto's Mario was named after the landlord of the building that they made the game in. courtesy of Payne of Chaos
In 1960, a 7 year old boy went over the falls of Niagra Falls and lived. courtesy of LavyBrown
An actual scream of a dying woman can be heard on The Ohio Players' Roller Coaster of Love.
At one historic battle when George Washington was sending a message, George Washington's hat had three bulletholes in it, and his coat had five, yet he still lived!
The movie that said the f-word the most times was the Devil's Rejects, saying it 560 times!
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is a phobia where you have a fear or disliking of the numbers 666.
In retrospect, using this code: A=101 B=102 C=103, and applying it to the name Hitler, the name adds up to 666.
Once, a man was going to light a ciggarette but instead of getting his lighter, he accidently got his .15 Caliber Semi-Automatic Handgun and blew a hole in his hand and shot his cousin in the thigh.
A couple were going to marriage counseling but the husband arrived there late. The wife became so angry that she shot her husband. The husband returned fire and shot her wife. Later, the ex-couple were arrested for attempted murder. The marriage counseling was taking place at their local church.
If you go directly south from Detroit, you will end up in Canada.
On an US map, you can find a shape of a chef by looking down from MN to LA.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one 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.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
A duck's quack doesn't echo.
Richard Millhouse Nixon and William Jefferson Clinton have all the letters that contain "criminal."
add this!
The word 'and' appears 46,277 times in the bible. :P
Sure, okay.
It only took me minutes ::)
How many Lavy?
7
I didn't waste it. It was fun laughing at those stuff. ;D
Lavy, I think the time depends on how fast you can read. For example, I was done in less than 3 min. My sister took almost ten though. Lol.
haha, thank you for adding that *feels loved* :P
oh coures if I didnt read 1/2 of it three times I would have been alot faster.
So it takes some people longer to read then others, oh well. . . . I thought those were great!
I laughted at them I love all of them :D
If I weren't playing Torn City I would have been a lot faster! :P ;D
lol! ;D Thanx for posting that! It's so funny!
post some more then I can waste a full ten minutes
I need help getting the uncommonly known facts. Tell me some and I will post them.
on March 29 1848 Niagra falls complety frozz over
K. I will put that in there.
ok
Shigaru Myamoto's Mario was named after the landlord of the building that they made the game in. Which is in Kyoto,Japan.
Edit: I know way to much about Nintendo.
lol
K
um I got another Niagra Falls one
in 1960 a 7 year old boy went over the falls of Niagra Falls and lived
A'ight.
Do you want towaste ten minutes
I don't know. My whole life is a waste of ten minutes. Got a new fact by the way.
um... Hong Kong isn't a city. "City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong."
In case anybody didn't notice, I added a new fact.
we did notice we did
Roller coasta'! Of love! Has anybody actually HEARD the scream?
What are you talking about?
I am talking about the fact I added. Its at the end of the list.
Added a new fact by the way. Been awhile since I added the last one.
Another fact for the more mature people.
Some more facts! I'm the only one that cares for this topic!
no we just don't post in it that's all
Oh reeaaallllyyyyy.
yes realllyyyyy
Another fact, and one that was false.
A whole lotta facts has just been added, and I finally exceeded 10000 characters! Well, its been a good run. I poured my life and blood into this topic. And now, I will retire.
good job you deserve the rest