Every episode of the television show "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.


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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!


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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 cant find any food!


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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!


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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!

Quite inteeresting things...never knew all that....never thought anyone would want to know- but interesting nonetheless....

I wish I had some useless info...but can't think of any at the moment, although I KNOW there are plenty roaming around my brain...lol

That was very interesting...
Most of them I knew and most of them made me laugh...

Thanks man_in_mudboots!

what did you mean about the Seinfield one? what superman?

haha some of those are cool... they arent all worth the exclamation point tho

Monster Hunter, there is a likeness of superman somewhere in the background of every seinfeld episode. a poster, figureine,whatever

[qoute] 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. [/qoute] wow!

I love useless knowledge!

There is? Here in australia?

LOL! Great work Man in mudboots!
Im with you subby, wheres rome in australia?!, we live here we should know!

people could so easily make stuff like that up though for example-
54% of people wipe their noses on accident before they start their car
oh well and i dont think theirs a rome in australia. i checked the atlas.

27% of all factiods are made up on the spot!

my mind is full of useless facts....

and not much else...

Useless fact: By the time you finish reading this, Burnside will probably have another 1000 posts...

Mind blowing

*wonders if she should put her useless facts on here........*

Go for it pheenix!!!

you asked for it:

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1,7 million years.
Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.
A fathom is 1,8 metres (6 feet).
There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.
Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders. The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. "She" probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the Viking word for feminine reference.
There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called "flag" numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.
After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed.
For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.
The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
On every continent there is a city called Rome.
The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.
The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London, which today is the 13th most populated city, with about 8 million residents.
The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.
Tokyo was once known as Edo.
The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.
The Vatican is the world's smallest country, at 0,44 square km (0,16 square miles).
The US flag displays 13 stripes - for the original 13 states.
To most Americans, the orient is China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam; to Europeans it is the area of India and Pakistan.
The words "electronic mail" might sound new but was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge. More at creditcards
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
Women make up 49% of the world population.
About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.
The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is caused by a chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter which also is produced naturally in the brain.
From the Middle Ages until the 18th century the local barber's duties included dentistry, blood letting, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole originates from when patients would grip the pole during an operation.
The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.
The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.
It is not true that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that can be viewed from space - many man-made objects, including the Dutch polders, can be viewed from space.

Did you know that in New Mexico, over eleven thousand people
have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it?
Did you know that in 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa,
made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast?
• A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.
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• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 4-7 weeks.
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• A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
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• The world camel population is close to 19 million.
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Animals and Creatures : Armadillos
• Armadillos can be housebroken.
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• Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.
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Animals and Creatures : Bats
• Giant flying foxes, which are a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet.
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Animals and Creatures : Cows
• Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk.
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Animals and Creatures : Dogs
• Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog.
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• Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints.
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• The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds.
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Animals and Creatures : Sharks
• Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
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Arts and Literature
• During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.
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• January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time.
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• The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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• The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
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Arts and Literature : Books
• General Lew Wallace's best seller Ben Hur was the first work of fiction to be blessed by a pope.
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Arts and Literature : English Language
• The word "diastema" is the word for having a gap between your teeth.
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• The word Lethologica describes the state of not remembering the word you want to say.
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• The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Suess in the book "If I Ran to the Zoo."
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• The word assassination was invented by William Shakespeare.
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Business
• It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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• The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot.
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Entertainment : Movies
• Actress Debra Winger helped to perform the voice of E.T. in the movie “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)."
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• The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
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• The song with the longest title is "I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945. He later claimed the song title ended with “Yank” and the rest was a joke.
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Entertainment : Radio
• ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
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Entertainment : Television
• Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder.
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• The first female guest host of Saturday Night Live was actress Candace Bergen.
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Geography and Space
• The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
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• The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992.
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Health and Body
• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
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Health and Body : Sex
• During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
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• According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society.
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• There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
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• Back in 1919 the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
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• Sex burns about 70-120 calories for a 130 pound woman, and 77 to 155 calories for a 170 pound man every hour.
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• Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.
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• The condom made originally of linen was invented in the early 1500's. Casanova, the womanizer, used linen condoms.
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History : China
• Slaves under the last emperors of China wore pigtails so they could be picked out quickly.
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History : Romans
• Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 B.C.
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Household Products
• Doctors in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring.
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• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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• Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.
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• Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
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• John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $453,500.
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• Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
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• Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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• The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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• A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building.
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Household Products
• Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
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Household Products : Clothes
• The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
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Household Products : Toilets
• Most toilets flush in E flat.
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• The first toilet tank ever seen on television was on Leave it to Beaver.
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Household Products : Toys
• Barbie's measurements if she were life-size: 5 feet 9 inches tall, 33-18-31 1/2
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• The hula hoop was the biggest selling toy in 1957.
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• Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
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• When the divorce rate goes up in the United States, toy makers report that the sale of toys also rise.
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Wowzers lol.


Well um,

-My dog is very sexi

nice ones, pheenix, although some were actually useful.
see? says so there, too. mind you, the 'city' named Rome in Australia could well be a microscopic dot with nine people that doesnt even get put on maps. heres one, if were getting into nasty facts, dragonfly males actually have a shovel-shaped organ on the end of their penis, that scoops the scemen of the previous male out of the female before mating. yuck, huh?
i dont think thats correct............

5 rabbits will eat as much grass as a cow.

Dang... You guys took most of mine....

Well, what I can think of at this moment:

*You can only fold a piece of paper over on itself a total of 8 times. (Originally it was said to be 7 times, but my friends and I disproved it...)

* There are approximately 1 million ants per person on this earth.

*A common form of condoms (used since I believe pre 1000 AD, long before the production of safer alternatives) were made out of the intestines of livestock. (Don't ask me why I know that.)

*It is illegal for a protrait of a living person to appear on a US postage stamp

*Until the law was brought to light by a US politician trying to buy a cat for his child, it was illegal in his state to house both a cat and a dog.

*In one state (I believe in the southern US) it is illegal for a girl to ask a boy out on a date.

*The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.


Yeah, that's all I can remember at the moment.....

Wow, I know some useless stuff! lol

Wow!

This is a fairly common misconception. Because of their independence (not as obedient as most dogs), they are often labeled as the dumbest breed. But not being as trainable does not make them less intelligent. They're actually pretty smart, and were breed to be very independent thinkers.

Isn't it Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha?

Some sausage is made out of pig intestines..yay.

Yeah.... It's hard to buy intestines anymore to make sausages.... My family (yay German heritage) makes sausages at home and we always have to order the intestines from the internet or some food resource catalogue.

2 Things your thumb nail is the fastest growing fingernail.

Also one for the P.I.M.P.S. If your spinning rims spin counter clockwise....they are fake!

Statistics can be used to prove anything. 73% of all people know that.

-Homer Simpson-

Bet you always wanted to know this!


A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

Well, I've read that if a spider's silk was as thick as a pencil, its web could catch a flying 747.

Thank god human penisses are shaped just the way they are.

Human hair grows most rapidly between 10 and 11 A.M.

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

86% of prisoners in guatameno bay were caught by bounty hunters

President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!

Well saddam did, not sure theres much call for Italian shoes in prison!

I'm sure there'll be. In tasmania theres a town call Baghdad

Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.

a fly takes off backwards

In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!

I just found out - Absolutely true....

A hawk in it's 'dive' towards it's prey - if there is any prey - moves 200 or so mph in the dive. An Absolutely astounding fact. I was amazed.

Did you know a fly takes off like a helicopter? Need I say not useless?
Yeah.....

In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones.

A paintball travilling over 300 fps can break your skin

Windex... the silent killer.

Here's a blesbok. Does it look the colour of grape juice to you?

finger nails grow 2.8 times faster than toe nails, there are almost 400 dimples in a golf ball, a human emitts 24btus of body heat and suplies as much energy as a 9vt battery

not any grape juice i would want to drink.

Is grape juice hairy??

I got a couple orgasm ones:

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 min. that's right 30 MINUTES!!

A sneeze is 1/12 an orgasm.

93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.


A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.


Austria was the very first country to use postcards starting in 1869

Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners