The USELESS facts

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• Pez was origionally made to help smokers quit. Its casing was made to mimic a lighter so when pushed a tablet would come out which was to be a nicotene substitute. The tablet recipe was later changed so it could be sold as a candy.
• It takes less work to pull something than it does to push. Based on this the wheel barol was origionally made to pull but is now designed to push for better control.
• The speed o' a running Domestic Pig is 11 miles per hour. But A Three-Toed Sloth, however, only goes 0.15 miles per hour.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, I can't explain that one!
• Kermit the Frog has 11 points on the collar around his neck.
• Why was HTML chosen as the language for the WWW when it's so limited? Well At the time, the goal was simply to put hypertext information up on the Net so that it could be easily downloaded and formatted quickly in a simple, device independent way, and HTML was a simple, small, quickly downloadable, language to do it in!!
• The first letter Vanna White ever turned on Wheel of Fortune was the letter T.
• Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
• If you type these two characters :) in microsoft word 97 they automatically turn into a happy face.
• The memory span of a goldfish is 3 seconds, why do you think they never get bored swimming in there little bowls, they can never remember where they are.
• The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
• Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
• There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
• Ants never sleep.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• There are 22 stars in the Paramount movie studio logo.
• The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Jungles of the Philippines.
• Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.
• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
• The billionth digit of pi is 9.
• Every one talks about pi but does anybody ever stop to think what it is used for; besides stating its numerical value and thinking they are smart because they can state the first 100 digits of this non terminating number. Pi is simply the ratio of the circumference of a circle compared with its diameter. So every circle has a circumference 3.14159... times greater than its diameter.
• The memeory required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount of memory needed for missions on the space shuttle.
• 400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow
• Peope DO NOT get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors too much.
• The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
• The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
• The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
• Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'
• Most toilets flush in E flat
• Most digital alarm clocks ring in the key of B flat.
• Human eyes never grow, while the human nose and ears never stop growing!
• 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day
• Most hamsters blink one eye at a time
• It takes a half agallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot.
• According to the Supreme Court decision in the Baker's vs. Dept. of Agriculture case, a state can require a retail store to sell strawberries by weight OR by volume, but not by both methods at the same time.
• The official colours used to paint the Canadian flag are "The printing ink colour is FIP red: from companies
  • General Printing Ink, No. 0-712;
  • Inmont Canada Ltd., No. 4T51577;
  • Monarch Inks, No. 62539/0;
  • Sinclair and Valentine, No. RL163929/0.
  If painting the colours are FIP red No. 509-211 and white: 513-201."
• There is considerable debate as to whether a Panda is closer related to Bears or the Raccoons.
• t is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT
• Cats use their wiskers for balncing purposes
• The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
• The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
• About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
• A fifteen letter word with no letters repeated is uncopyrightable.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

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