Useless Knowledge

I love little bits of trivia and facts. If anyone else has some post them here.


54% of Americans fold toilet paper neatly. 35% wad it. What about the other 11%?

Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.

A person would die if all of the toxic ingredients of one cigarette were directly injected into the bloodstream.

An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don’t like sex.

In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair

The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day; that’s about 2 1/2 years of your life down the drain.

An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.

Slugs have 4 noses.

If you weighed all the earthworms in the US, they’d be about 55 times heavier than the combined weight of all Americans.

Since the successful launch of space shuttle Columbia on mission STS-90 there have been more crickets in space than humans.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.

There is enough graphite in the average pencil to draw a line 35 miles long, that’s 45,000 words.

It would take half the people in the United States between the ages of 18 and 45 to run the nation’s telephone system if it were not computerized.

If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Top Six reasons for being late for work: 1) traffic. 2) oversleeping. 3) procrastination. 4) Chores. 5) Car Trouble. 6) Having Sex.

If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

If you counted for 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Good one wanahee.....I wonder why?

"Slugs have 4 noses."..

We also learned thanks to Genenco, that ants prefer slugs over tofu...

 

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Dolphins are so smart, I love them.

Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy Ketchup.
The dot over the lower case i is called a Tittle.
85% of the guys who die while having sex are cheating on their wives.