USELESS FACTS
* Every episode of "Seinfeld" contains at least one Superman.
* There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
* The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
* Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
* Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
* Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
* A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
* More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
* The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
* When opossums are playing dead, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
* Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning!
* Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
* A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
* A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
* A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
* A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
* Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee!
* A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
* One in every 4 americans has appeared on television!
* The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
* Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
* It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska!
* You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
* Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
* 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
* 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
* There is a city called Rome on every continent.
* Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
* The state of Florida is bigger than England!
* It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
* Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
* Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
* Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
* The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
* There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S than real ones!
* "Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
* About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
* More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
* A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
* Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
* Slugs have 4 noses!
* Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
* Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue!
* Honeybees have hair on their eyes!
* A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
* In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
* The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
* More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
* The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
* The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
* One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
* America once issued a 5-cent bill!
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
* There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
* Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
* A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
* A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
* The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
* Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
* In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
* The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
* The average person laughs 15 times a day!
* 3 out of 10 people will actually check on the above facts!
