Useless facts..........

  • Nici
    19 years ago

    Here's me getting bored again. Hope you enjoy these useless facts and feel free to add anymore.

    A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

    About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

    "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie.

    It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion.

    It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.
    It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
    It takes 20 different muscles to form a kiss.
    It takes 25 muscles to swallow.

    It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs

    Nici

  • Georgi
    19 years ago

    hahahaahahhahahahhhahahahahahahahaha
    love the cockroach one! ahahahaaa

    *still laughing*

    aahahhaaa

  • Steven Beesley
    19 years ago

    Nobel Peace Prize Medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.

    It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are acidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

    Tourists visiting iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

    The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.

    One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year.

    Every second, America consumes 100 pounds of chocolate.

  • melinda
    19 years ago

    i love the thing about tress and squirells!!

  • DeathsRose
    19 years ago

    I like the one about Iceland. I don't know if I'll ever go there, but It's nice to know.

  • Ele
    19 years ago

    i have to take credits for some of those trees, im always forgettin where i bury nuts

    a fact from me; in york (england) it is legal to shoot a scottish person with a bow and arrow if youre within the town walls

  • JL
    19 years ago

    lol these are random...but in sleeping beauty her parents don't die/aren't dead.
    fact: there are 365 steps leading up to the white house representing every day of the year.
    *7% of the entire irish barley crop goes to producing Guinness Beer~
    *Hawaii has the most expensive golf courses
    *It is illegal in the US to molest a butterfly o.O

  • Cut~Up~Angel
    19 years ago

    Lol! Some of these are very random... hmm well i found a website aaages agoo and heres a few i can remember...

    Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

    Its Illegal to mispronounce Arkansas in that state.

    In Tennessee it is legal to gather and consume road kill (awww no fair =P)

    A 'jiffy' is a real unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

    And a ducks quack doesnt echo but no one knows why

    HeHe x~X~x

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    OH YEAH!

    Get this:

    They have square watermelons in Japan, they're grown in boxes to make them stack better.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    there are as many chickens on this planet as humans

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    one type of humming bird ways less than a penny

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    Sharks can live up to 100 years

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    Mosquitoes are attracted to the colo(u)r blue twice as much as any other colo(u)r

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    A dime has 188 ridges around the edge

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    Kangaroos can't walk backwards

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    you would need 14,826 billion fireflies to generate as much light as the sun produces

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    An underground mushroom in Oregon is 3.5 miles across and covers an area larger than 1,600 football fields

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    The california state flag was originally supposed to feature a pear, not a bear.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail was facing the ground

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    Fish can't blink because they don't have eyelids.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    There aren't any billboards in Vermont

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    The largest recorded snowflake was 16 inches wide and 8 inches thick, it fel in Montana in 1887

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    A day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    The ski-doo snowmobile was originally supposed to be called the Ski-dog; there was a typo.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    In the carribbean there are a species of oysters that can climb trees

  • Once an Angel
    19 years ago

    If insects were 1/4 the size of people then would be a world of flies and spiders, not humans.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    There is 200 million insects for every one human

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    You burn more calories eating a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    An octopus has three hearts

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    There is about 1/4 pound of salt in each gallon of seawater.

  • aDORKable x3
    19 years ago

    Cows have 4 stomachs

    The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

    The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

    Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's
    Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

    A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

    A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English
    Dictionary, is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis". The only
    other word with the same amount of letters is
    "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses", its plural. (It's a disease coal miners get! I catually knew this one 0.o)

    111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
    fathered over 160 children.

    The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

    The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are
    antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

    aiight, enuff for now lol

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    Dolphins are the only other animals in the world, that enjoy sex..

    It was in a book, don't ask.

  • The Wingless
    19 years ago

    In latin Politics means many blood sucking creatures.

  • JL
    19 years ago

    therapist= the rapist

    more people die anually from being hit on the head with coconuts than from shark attacks

    if you took all the roads in NYC, you could reach Japan

    Cows can walk up stairs but not down them

    A goldfishs attention span is only 3 secs

  • JL
    19 years ago

    the great pyramid is estimated to weigh 6,648,000 tons
    brown eggs= hens with red feathers and red ear lobes
    white eggs= hens with white feathers and white ear lobes

  • avery
    19 years ago

    The word "sh*t" means marijuana in Portuguese.
    I knew this one by heart. :)

  • Amanda Bee
    19 years ago

    Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

    In Texas it is illegal to have sex with a fish, in Florida it is illegal to get a fish drunk, and N.Carolina thought both laws were good so in NC it is illegal to have sex with a drunk fish .

    In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 P.M. if you live in an apartment.

    In 1471, a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was accused of being 'a devil in disguise' after laying a brightly colored egg. The chicken stood trial, was found guilty and burned at the stake.

  • Amanda Bee
    19 years ago

    In Gainesville, Georgia - the chicken capital of the world - it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.

    In Minnesota, you may not hang male and female underwear next to each other on a clothesline. (Ha! Ha! No mingling!)

    According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. The offense was punishable by hanging.

    It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

    In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. (Sorry all of you giraffe owners….)

    Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year. (I am a citizen of Kentucky….and that one gets me every time!!! The question is…who checks????)

  • Amanda Bee
    19 years ago

    Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.