•   Tina Turners real name is "Annie Mae Bullock."
   •   H.T.M.L. is short for hypertext markup language.
   •   Humans and Dolphins are the only species to have sex for pleasure.
   •   An ostirich's eye is bigger than its brain.
   •   Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
   •   Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.
   •   After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.
   •   The king of hearts is the only king without a moushtache.
   •   Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
   •   Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
   •   Starfishes do not have brains.
   •   Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
   •   The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
   •   An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
   •   Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
   •   Giraffes have no vocal chords.
   •   Cat's urine glows under a black light.
   •   Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.
   •   Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
   •   Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."
   •   The bagpipe was originally made from the liver of a dead sheep.
   •   Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
   •   American car horns beep in the tone of F.
   •   The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.
   •   No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
   •   An average american spends 15 minutes of their lives watching their thighs jiggle.
   •   A human being farts an average of 11 times a day, 7 of which are in your sleep.
   •   All swans in England are the property of the Queen.
   •   Right handed people live on average 9 years longer than left handed people.
   •   A peanut is not a nut it is a legume.
   •   Every year 11,000 americans injure themselves trying out bizarre sexual positions.
   •   The name of all the continents end in the same letter they start with.
   •   9% Of Americans report being in the prescence of a ghost.
   •   Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
   •   California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
   •   In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
   •   Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
   •   Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
   •   One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
   •   Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
   •   The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
   •   Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
   •   The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
   •   A blue whale's testicles are as large as a Volkswagen beetle
   •   An adult blue whale's heart beats about 5-6 times a minute.
   •   7% of Americans think Elvis is alive.
   •   Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
   •   Michael Jackson is black.
   •   A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
   •   Cows poop on average 16 times a day.
   •   Music helps cows produce more milk.
   •   The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
   •   Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
   •   The dolphins that live in the Amazon river are pink.
   •   Rabbits and guinea pigs don't sweat.
   •   A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
   •   Coffee is the second largest item on international commerce in the world.
   •   96% of a cucumber is water.
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   •   It is impossible to lick your elbow.
   •   A shrimp's heart is in their head.
   •   A pregnant goldfish is called a twit .
   •   By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
   •   On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
   •   More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
   •   Rats and horses can't vomit.
   •   Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
   •   Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
   •   In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
   •   A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
   •   noogie, bootie have been added this year to the webster collegiate dictionary.
   •   A cat's jaw can't move sideways.
   •   Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to not leave a will.
   •   The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1935.
   •   A chest X-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts.
   •   Warsaw, Poland, holds the distinction of opening the world's first public library in 1747.
   •   In England, a billboard is called a hoarding.
Newer
   •   A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
   •   People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.
   •   It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
   •   23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
   •   Most lipstick contains fish scales.
   •   In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in
the sand (or attempted to do so).

The Newest- You can thank Matt for this...Matt is now the useless knowedge Manager
1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on TV; Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
2. Coca-Cola was originally green.
3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
8. The cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs-Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
17. If a statue in the park of a person on a 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.
18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
19"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
20. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
21. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.
22. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
23. The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosy" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously) so that they would cover the smell of the sores a pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!").
25. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase goodnight, sleep tight."
26. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
27. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
28. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of the handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
29. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language 6. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
30. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
31. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
32. People Do Not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
33. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop...even your heart.
34.Only 7% of the population are lefties.
35.Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
36.The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
37.The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
38.The average housefly lives for one month.
39. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
40. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
41. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
42. Eating breakfast cereals like "Fruity Pebbles" and "Cap'n Crunch Berries" will cause your stools to come out green.
43. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
44.About 20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called their inner ear canal HOME. They enter while you sleep! Just as many of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
45. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
46. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
47. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
48. Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
49. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
50. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
51. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
52. Many hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
53. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.

The Newest New Useless Knowledge
1. London cabbies estimate their average driving speed to be 9 miles per hour due to increasing traffic congestion.
2. Walt Disney World is home to the largest working wardrobe in the world with over 2.5 million costumes in its inventory.
3. It is against the law to remove your shoes if your feet smell bad while you're in a theater in Winnetka, Illinois.
4. The word "booger" was added to the english language in 1886.
5. On a package of Planter's Peanuts, it says "Caution- Contains nuts"
6. On the Volumatrix blowdryer, the warning label reads "Do not use while sleeping"
7. On a Toshiba television, the tag reads "Picture only shows when power is on"
8. Vaseline was created on accident. The chemist Robert Watkins was trying to make a synthetic crude oil.
9. Donald Duck was almost banned in Finland because he didnt wear any pants. Micky and Minnie mouse were also almost banned from Finland because they were a couple for so long with out getting married
10. NASCAR is 2nd in American Sports watched, 2nd only to Footbal. 68% of Americans watch NASCAR, but only 49% can name more than 5 drivers.
11. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
12. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
13. In Arizona, you can not have more than 2 dildos in 1 house.
14. In California, any vehicle with no driver can exceed 60 mph.
15. In Indiana, oral sex is illegal
16. In Kentucky, It is considered an offense for anyone to receive anal sex, unless it is male to male. In West Virginia, It is legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 lbs.
17. Jack the Ripper, the notorious murderer in 19th century England, committed his crimes on weekends.
18. It takes 1 1/2 days for a chick to break its shell.
19 Canada does not send mail on Saturdays.
20. There are 119 grooves on a quarter.
21. The worlds longest fingernails Shridar Chillil of Poona, India. The sum of his 5 nails was a total of 20 ft 2.25 in. He's been growing them for 49 years.