Useless Facts

[01dragonslayer]

Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.​

If you've ever broken a nail way down near the base—or lost one completely—you know they take quite a while to grow back. In fact, the American Academy of Dermatology says that a fingernail takes around six months to grow from base to tip and toenails can take up to a year. But a couple factors tend to speed that process up: Fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand as well as on your bigger fingers, and nails also grow faster during the daytime as well as during the summer months.

 

[jbryand101b]

Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.​

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If you've ever broken a nail way down near the base—or lost one completely—you know they take quite a while to grow back. In fact, the American Academy of Dermatology says that a fingernail takes around six months to grow from base to tip and toenails can take up to a year. But a couple factors tend to speed that process up: Fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand as well as on your bigger fingers, and nails also grow faster during the daytime as well as during the summer months.

01dragonslayerI’m ambidextrous…

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government subsidized housing.

 

[GoPro]

1. In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government subsidized housing.

01dragonslayerI'm Colorado, but wrong area...I should move lol. Nah, I don't need it.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. Honking of car horns for a couple that just got married is an old superstition to insure great sex.

 

[01dragonslayer]

Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.

 

[01dragonslayer]

Napoleon's penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. A bull can inseminate 300 cows from one single ejaculation.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. The following sentence: 'A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.' Contains the nine different pronunciations of "ough" in the English Language.

 

[01dragonslayer]

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. The shape of plant collenchyma’s cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

 

[01dragonslayer]

1. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.