Useless facts
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nairiporterCockroaches can live for 9 days without a head, before they die of starvation.
Snails can sleep for 3 years.
All polar bears are left-handed.
A US airline company saved $40,000 by putting one olive less in the salads that they served in first class.
The eye of the ostrich is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without knee-caps. They develop knee-caps after their second year.
When you hit your head against a wall for an hour, you would burn 150 calories.
Butterflies sense taste through their legs.
The Donald Duck comic was banned in Finland because Donald didn't have pants on.
People and dolphins are the only two species who have sex for pleasure.
If Barbie existed in real size, her proportions would have been 39-23-33. She would be 2.20 m tall, and her neck would be twice longer than the normal human neck.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually become white.
Leonardo DaVinci invented the scissors.
Not even one word in the English language rhymes with MONTH.
People are afraid of spiders more than they fear death.
One of the reasons why pot is illegal today is that in the 30s the cotton producers lobbied against the hemp producers, because they were their competitors on the market.
Just one person in every 2 billion people will live to the age of 116.
Our eyes remain the same size since birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing (possibly because we never stop lying!)
Right-handed people live 9 years longer on average than left-handed people.
Starfish don't have a brain.
STEWARDESSES is the longest word you can type using only your left hand.
Ants always fall on their right side after being sprayed.
People eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping for their lifetime.
The Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship moves with just 15 cm for each gallon of diesel fuel it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The name Wendy was invented in the book Peter Pan.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses all letters in the English language.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest human muscle is the tongue.
TYPERWRITER is the longest word one could type, using just one row on the keyboard.
Women blink twice as much as men.
The chance of being killed by a cork flying from a bottle of champagne is higher than being killed by a venomous spider.
You can kill yourself by holding your breath.
Your birthday coincides with that of at least 9 million people around the world.
Snails can sleep for 3 years.
All polar bears are left-handed.
A US airline company saved $40,000 by putting one olive less in the salads that they served in first class.
The eye of the ostrich is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without knee-caps. They develop knee-caps after their second year.
When you hit your head against a wall for an hour, you would burn 150 calories.
Butterflies sense taste through their legs.
The Donald Duck comic was banned in Finland because Donald didn't have pants on.
People and dolphins are the only two species who have sex for pleasure.
If Barbie existed in real size, her proportions would have been 39-23-33. She would be 2.20 m tall, and her neck would be twice longer than the normal human neck.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually become white.
Leonardo DaVinci invented the scissors.
Not even one word in the English language rhymes with MONTH.
People are afraid of spiders more than they fear death.
One of the reasons why pot is illegal today is that in the 30s the cotton producers lobbied against the hemp producers, because they were their competitors on the market.
Just one person in every 2 billion people will live to the age of 116.
Our eyes remain the same size since birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing (possibly because we never stop lying!)
Right-handed people live 9 years longer on average than left-handed people.
Starfish don't have a brain.
STEWARDESSES is the longest word you can type using only your left hand.
Ants always fall on their right side after being sprayed.
People eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping for their lifetime.
The Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship moves with just 15 cm for each gallon of diesel fuel it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The name Wendy was invented in the book Peter Pan.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses all letters in the English language.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest human muscle is the tongue.
TYPERWRITER is the longest word one could type, using just one row on the keyboard.
Women blink twice as much as men.
The chance of being killed by a cork flying from a bottle of champagne is higher than being killed by a venomous spider.
You can kill yourself by holding your breath.
Your birthday coincides with that of at least 9 million people around the world.
