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totally useless facts.
the "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
the only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible is the cat.
the "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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.
the original story from "tales of 1001 arabian nights" begins, "aladdin was a little chinese boy."
nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. what about milk you say? a cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
the most common name in the world is mohammed.
michael jordan makes more money from nike annually than all of the nike factory workers in malaysia combined.
the volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the pacific ocean.
cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.
spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. this is because all knights used to be right-handed. when the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to describe early radio users who sent morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).
the slogan on new hampshire license plates is "live free or die." these license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in concord.
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.
the giant red star betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the earth's orbit around the sun.
the longest place name still in use is:
taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronuk-
upokaiwhenuakitanatahu--a new zealand hill.
los angeles's full name is: "el pueblo de nuestra senora la reina de los angeles de poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "la.".
only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.
an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
according to einstein's special theory of relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. also, there is a particle called tackyon which is supposed to go faster than light. this means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.
when you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a persons head.
hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
a cat's jaw cannot move sideways...
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if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (hardly seems worth it!)
if you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (now that's more like it!)
a pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (in my next life i want to be a pig!)
banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (still not over that pig thing!)
humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (is that why flipper was always smiling?)
the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (hmmmmm.....)
right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (if you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
the ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (from drinking little bottles of...?) (did the gov't pay for this research??)
polar bears are left handed. (who knew?, who cares!)
the catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. that makes the catfish #1 for the animal having the most taste buds.
the flea can jump 350 times its body length. it's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
a cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (creepy!)
the male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. the female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. ("honey, i'm home. what the....")
some lions mate over 50 times a day. (in my next life i still want to be a pig... quality over quantity!)
butterflies taste with their feet. (oh, geez!)
an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (i know some people like that.)
starfish don't have brains. (i know some people like that too!)
