Useless Facts

[Rocksurfer]

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

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

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

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

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

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this?)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

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 first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

EMU's and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

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

It is impossible to lick your elbow.



The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.



A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.



40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.



A shrimp's heart is in it's head.



Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.



People say 'Bless you' when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.



The most common name in world is Mohammed.



A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.



The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001.



Rats and horses can't vomit.



Most people button their shirt upwards.



In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.



The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.



The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.



35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.



23% of all photocopier breakdowns are caused by people sitting on them while photocopying their rears.



Most lipstick contains fish scales.



There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.



More than half the people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

[yotarunner85]

Wow! I feel smarter having read this. Thanks!

[IMMUDDY]

HAHAHA, what a great post.
Yes i tried to lick my elbow.
Did you also know that the skin on your elbow has no feeling.  go ahead and try it.. pinch it with all you got.

[santa cruz crawler]

lots of good info!! lol

[abnormaltoy]

Didn't want to break the chain on that email? Were you promised (and did you receive) good fortune? 

[Sparkplug]

i tried to lick my elbow, damn it

[toe]

I thought about licking my elbow.........

[kneedownnate]

After trying to lick my own elbow I've determined a flexible chick with a wicked long tongue could lick her elbow 

[Rocksurfer]

Don't judge a man until you walk a mile in his shoes, first you'll be a mile ahead of him and second you have his shoes.

[Dr Phat]

A) I can lick my elbow and no I dont have a huge tounge...just messed up shoulders haha.

And...

B) How can the great wall of china be seen from space when the average 4 lane highway is wider than it?

[<MIKE>]

A) I can lick my elbow and no I dont have a huge tounge...just messed up shoulders haha.

And...

B) How can the great wall of china be seen from space when the average 4 lane highway is wider than it?


maybe the contrast of the countryside that its in?

[GNasty 82]

Is a road technically a 'structure'?

[blackdiamond]

Is a road technically a 'structure'?

Some roads have road beds that go several feet into the ground, so they should qualify as a structure.  The autobahn in Germany has a road bed that is something like 10 feet thick if I remember correctly.  It cost a lot to build, but doesn't have the ongoing issues that US highways do with settling and wear.

[junya92toy]

A) I can lick my elbow and no I dont have a huge tounge...just messed up shoulders haha.

And...

B) How can the great wall of china be seen from space when the average 4 lane highway is wider than it?

Space is considered to up only like 62 miles from the earth.

[Dr Phat]

If you dont want to include highways then.

What about Bridges? Tapan Zee Bridge? Throggs Neck? Golden Gate for you West Coasters?

Hell, what about the 1300ft super tankers that are 125ft plus wide.

[junya92toy]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/visible_from_space_031006.html

[Dr Phat]

Guess that ends that haha.

[Wermz84]

Don't forget that desert snails can nap for up to four years.
&
A cockroach can live for up to two weeks without its head (death is from starvation and not the injury)

My contributions to you RS. 

During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

The death in one of those scenes also looks realistic because it actually happened.

People say 'Bless you' when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.

I thought they said that because way back when people were really superstitious they thought you were being possessed by an evil spirit (way before they knew anything about heart rates and stuff.

[Dr Phat]

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/benhur.asp

Depends on which one your talking about I guess...

Haha.

[Wermz84]

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/benhur.asp

Depends on which one your talking about I guess...

Haha.

Well Damn!  

[Steve_925]

the gum thing for choppin onions doesnt work

[kneedownnate]

It did for me    Decided to fire up the crock pot and throw in some veggies with the drumsticks I didn't feel like cooking the other day, popped in a piece of gum when cutting the onion and it pretty much worked.  I say pretty much worked cause I only felt the slightest stinging, but my eyes are pretty sensetive and go nuts when cutting onions.

A cockroach can live for up to two weeks without its head (death is from starvation and not the injury)

Wonder if the same is true of potato bug larvae?  I found one in the garden and cut it in half, only to find there seemed only to be meat in the rear half.  Cut the body off directly behind the head, and again only found meat after the head, cut the body into a couple pieces and it was all meat.  Kinda seemed like everything was contained within the head 

[Steve_925]

didnt work for my girlfriend tonite atleast

[Rocksurfer]

Tell her not to rub her eyes while doing it.