Useless Facts

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Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

 

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1. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

 

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1. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

 

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1. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

 

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1. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

 

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1. The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

 

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1. A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

 

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1. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

 

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1. Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

 

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1. In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.

 

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1. It's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.

 

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1. Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

 

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1. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

 

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1. One third of all cancers are sun related.

 

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1. THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.

 

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1. It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.

 

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1. Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.

 

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1. Most Egyptians died by the time they were 30 about 300 years ago,

 

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1. For some time Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face, explaining: "It does not matter, my audience sees only my right side."

 

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1. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television.