Useless Facts

Today is useless fact day!! WHOOOOOOO!!!

1) Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years (wonder why...'cause yogurt's just bacteria...is it really that healthy??)
2) A Cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second.
3) If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit. (For those who don't know, pi is 3.14)
4) A piece of paper can be folded in half no more than 9 times.
5) The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.
6) Whitby has more doughnut shops per capita than any other place in the world (OH MY GOD I'M GOING THERE)
7) The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
8) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
9) A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink (hehe...flink flink flink flink)
10) Alligators cannot move backwards (....I have a fantastic visual right now. Tee hee.)
11) Flamingos can only eat with thei heads upside down.
12) Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes. (FANTASTIC)
13) A gold fish's memory span is three seconds ("Hi. I'm Dory.")
14) The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span. Anna will eat over 1 million.
15) Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton (WEEEEEIRD)
16) Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendix needlessly removed every day (f-ing Canadians)
17) 400 quarter-pounders can be made out of one cow (Oh Bessie!)
18) The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 ft. That's a lot of Jason Biggs humping.
19) The armhole in clothing is called an armsaye. Or the armhole.
20) The end of a hammer, opposite the striking end, is called a 'peen'. Hehehehe. Peen.
21) Spat-out food is called chanking.
22) Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
23) The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'. What a fantastic song.
24) A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp; a dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.
25) Those stars and colours you see when you close and rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
26) The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
27) 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
28) Most car horns beep in the key of 'F'. I beep in the key of fuck you. ...I don't even know what that meant.
29) Most hamsters blink one eye at a time
30) Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously (I totally know people who would do that)
31) The most common name in the world is Mohammed
32) A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body.
33) The average person over fifty will have spent one year looking for lost items, and five years waiting in lines.
34) November 29th is National Sinky day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship it. I hate humanity.
35) The toothbrush was invented in 1498
36) A sysygy occurs when all the planets of our Solar System line up.
37) A golf ball has 360 dimples. Matt's ass has 17.
38) 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. (BRILLIANT)
39) By the time they reach grade 12, an American will have been in school for about 17,000 hours. Damnit. That's 17,000 hours that I could have had to nap.
40) In California, it is illegal to eat oranges while bathing. (I'm moving there. Awesome.)
41) If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
42) In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 km of a private home. What the fuck???
43) A duck's quack has no echo.
44) There's a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.
45) Every single hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.
46) All porcupines float in water. I want to try it. Now. Right now.
47) Cat's urine glows under a black light.
48) A group of officers is called a mess. How true.
49) Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Beat that, Paul Joseph Bruno Murphy IV.
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50) The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The "crack" of whip is actually a tiny sonic boom. Neat.

So yeah. There are 50 totally useless facts that will never get you anywhere in life. What an uplifting thought.

Here's where I got these (there are TONS more there): http://www.doiv.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/useless-facts.htm