Useless Facts

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1. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

 

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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

 

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1. Almonds are members of the peach family.

 

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Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

 

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1. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

 

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1. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”

 

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Prothotic Motion Control

 

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1. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

 

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1. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

 

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1. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

 

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1. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

 

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1. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”

 

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1. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

 

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1. The word “School” comes from the ancient Greek for “FREE TIME”.

 

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1. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 

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1. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1” encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

 

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It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 

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1. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

 

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1. The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away (pretty good trick).