Useless Facts

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1. The first contraceptive was crocodile dung used by the ancient Egyptians.

 

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1. A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independence. Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person signed 2 years later.

 

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1. Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died at 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.

 

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1. Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of 5.

 

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Weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald McDonald.

 

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1. Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.

 

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Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

 

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1. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

 

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1. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

 

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1. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.

 

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Thomas Edison, acclaimed inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.

 

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1. You can sail all the way around the world at latitude 60 degrees south.

 

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1. The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

 

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1. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

 

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1. Porcupines can float in water.

 

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1. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 

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1. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 

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1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

 

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1. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20, a national pot-smokers hour.

 

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1. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."