Useless Facts

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1. Hong Kong holds the most Rolls Royce’s per capita.

 

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1. Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7

 

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1. WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, he went through "the whole 9 yards", hence the term.

 

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1. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

 

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1. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

 

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1. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

 

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1. In the early 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (like two-way radios in taxis) but did not re-number the other channel assignments.

 

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1. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

 

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Firehouses have circular stairways originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases

 

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1. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

 

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1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

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1. Statues in parks: If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

 

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1. The expression 'to get fired' comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the term 'Got fired'.

 

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1. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

 

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1. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

 

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1. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

 

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1. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 

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1. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

 

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1. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

 

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1. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.