Pointless facts are fun
We should have a sticky full of them.
-People speak at a rate of about 120 words per minute
-The average person supposedly falls asleep in seven minutes
-the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet can not tan
-The resolving power of the human eye is 0.0003 of a radian or an arc of one minute (1/60th of a degree), which corresponds to 100 microns at 10 in. (confused yet?) A micron is a thousandth of a millimeter, hence 100 microns is 0.00397, or less than four thousandths of an inch, the human eye can detect a bright light shining through an aperture of only three or four microns
-Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
-Your fingers can detect a vibration with a movement of 0.02 of a micron
-The loudest snore ever recorded is 87.5 decibels
-The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
-One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
-The septum linguae is located on the tongue
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
-More people are killed annually by donkeys than are killed in airplane crashes
-The smelliest animal in the world is the Gorilla, it can discharge a nauseous fluid from it's anal glands which can be smelled over a radius of half a mile
-Crickets hear through their knees
-A female ferret is known as a "jill"
-Butterflies taste through their feet
-The donkey gets its name from "key" meaning color, and "dung"
-An Ostrich's eye is larger than it's brain
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
-Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
-It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky
-A dragonfly has a life-span of 24 hours
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
-The average flight speed of a house fly is five miles an hour
-Stan, the first Spanish dog ever fitted with contact lenses, was hit by a car the day after he was fitted with them
-The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
-There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard
-The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
-A frog's favorite color is blue
-Butterflies can fly at twenty mph
-The hummingbird is the only bird which can fly backwards
-Hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of any animal, they require from 6,000 to 12,400 calories per day (depending on the species)
-An electric eel will short circuit if put into salt water
-A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground
-Camel's milk does not curdle.
-Reindeer milk has three times the protein of cow milk
-The dog name "Fido" comes from the Latin meaning "I trust thee"
-Starfish have no brains
-Porcupines ********** (I'm not kidding)
-It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
-The male earwig's rear-end pincers are curved
-It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have been only 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world
-A jiffy is one-hundred-thousand-billion-billionth of a second
-there is 1/10 of a calorie on the back of a stamp
-An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver
-Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 a gram
-The toilet on the Space shuttle boasts a footrest, handholds, a seat belt and a suction fan
-There is an odd number of steps in every staircase in Thailand
-There are five holes in a bagpipe bag
-The Wright brothers airplane boasted a whopping twelve horsepower engine
-Tarzan means "white skin"
-There is 1/8 of a tea spoon in a dash
-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
-The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans towards the south
-Harvey Kennedy invented the shoelace
-Louis the XIV took only three baths in his lifetime
-Adolf Hitler parted his hair on the right
-Prince Charles collects toilet seats
-The yo-yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines
-There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
-Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
-The largest existing blimp is the Fuji Film blimp
-The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
-The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
-Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
-Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
-In the 656 BC Olympics, Chionis registered a distance of 23 feet 1 1/2 inches in the long jump
-Ghosts tend to deteriorate after about 400 years, the most outstanding exception to the rule being a troop of Roman soldiers marching trough the cellar of the Treasurer's House, York Minster, they are still marching through the cellar after nearly 19 centuries
-No piece of paper can be folded more than twenty times
-Pope Leo XIII stopped the practice of castration as a means for producing male sopranos
-Pope Stephen II reigned for only one day
-The only acceptable sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary-style position. Any other sexual position is considered illegal.
-There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game
-The next year which will read the same way upside down as rightside up is the year 6009, the last was 1961
-During the 1700's, doctors often prescribed swinging on a swing to cure ladies of such problems as melancholy and "vapours" or fainting spells.
-The sandwich was created in 1762 by the Earl of Sandwich. He was playing non-stop poker. His wife insisted that he must eat. So he told her to put a piece of meat between two pieces of bread, so that he could eat with one hand, and hold his cards with the other.
-The term "slapstick" originated in renaissance Italy as Commedia del Arte', and it was the precursor to slapstick - the slapstick was a stick with a loose piece of wood tied to the end that made a loud bang when you whapped an actor without - loads o' laughs. It had a brief resurgence in 17th century France when Moliere rediscovered the medium, and began creating new works in the same genre.
-The fortune cookie was first created in 1916 at the George Jung Noodle Factory in Los Angeles
-Arnold Shwarzenegger was the tallest Mr. Universe ever
-In 1904, the head of the patent office said that the office should be closed down because everything that could possibly be invented had already been invented.
-Sheep statistics - Body temperature: 100o F- 103o F, Pulse/heart rate: 70-80 beats per minute. Respiration rate: 12-20 breaths per minute, gestation: 145 days, Weight, adult sheep between 150-200lbs.
-A cat is 9% skeleton, for an elephant to be as flexible as a cat, it would have to be nearly 85% skeleton, leaving almost no room for internal organs
-The only person, male or female, to win an Oscar for both acting and screenwriting is Emma Thompson
-Montreal is the worlds snowiest city
-The Bates Hotel from Psycho is actually a ¾ scale miniature, Alfred Hitchcock shot it from low angles to make it look big
-The Greek word for butterfly is psyche, which means soul.
# In Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle.
# The worlds longest national road is the Trans-Canada Highway, it runs from St. Johns Newfoundland to Victoria B.C.
# Katherine Hepburn and Barbera Streisand are the only two actresses to ever tie for the best actress Oscar
The word "diploma" is Greek for "folded paper"
-"Caterpillar" is Roman for "hairy cat"
-A large man can prespire 19 litres of water a day
-King Tut is the only Egyptian Pharaoh to remain buried in his tomb
-James Buchanan was the only unmarried President of the United States
-Rejkjavik, Iceland is the northernmost national capital in the world
-a furlong is an eighth of a mile.
-Siberian huskies lack the glands that other dogs have that give bad doggie breath.
You made me use the word awesome.
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