Useless Facts

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1. 70% of all boats sold are used for fishing.

 

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1. Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day, making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the adult.

 

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1. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

 

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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

 

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1. You were born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult you will only have 206.

 

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1. If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

 

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1. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

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1. The strongest muscle (Relative to size) in the body is the tongue.

 

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1. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

 

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

 

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1. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

 

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1. A palindrome is a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backwards as it does forward: Ex: 'Red rum, sir, is murder.' 'Ma is as selfless as I am.' 'Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!' 'A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.' 'He lived as a devil, eh?'

 

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1. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

 

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1. In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. It was estimated to save the nation about 300,000 barrels of oil each year by adding most of the month April to D.S.T.

 

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1. The Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing.

 

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The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

 

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1. Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

 

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1. If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.

 

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1. There are 1 million ants for every human in the world.

 

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1. Odds of being killed by lightening? 1 in 2million/killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000/killed by falling out of bed? 1 in 2million/killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.