Useless Facts

  1. This common everyday occurrence composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide is called a 'fart'.
 
  1. "Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.
 
  1. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
 
  1. Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)
 
  1. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
 
  1. Los Angeles' full name 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula' is reduced to 3.63% of its size in the abbreviation 'L.A.'.
 
  1. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
 
  1. The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsy Ross.
 
In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.
 
  1. Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
 
  1. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
 

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