Useless Trivia
The Hoover Dam was built to last 20 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
In relation to its size, a barnacle has the largest penis of any animal in the world.
The longest word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “Uncopyrightable.”
Bees must collect nectar from 2 million flowers to produce one pound of honey.
Every United States President has worn glasses; some of them just don’t like to be seen wearing them in public.
The average life span of a major league baseball is seven pitches.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
One in every four Americans has been on television.
Animals in the wild rarely experience the joys of a venereal disease, except for otters, which sometimes get herpes.
In Wales, sheep outnumber the population by a 4:1 ratio.
Jazz fans, gun owners and people who lack confidence are the most sexually active.
In Middle Eastern Islamic countries, it’s a crime to eat any lamb that you’ve had sex with.
In ancient Greece, a man who was guilty of adultery was punished by having a large radish shoved up his rectum.
Fleas can accelerate fifty times faster than the Space Shuttle during liftoff.
In a recent survey, 49% of Americans believed that humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs.
On film sets, the shortest light stand is known as a Gary Coleman.
A Giraffe’s tongue is so long, it can clean its ears with it.
Jeanne Pierre Francois Blanchard built the parachute and tested it using a dog.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, while a dime has only one fewer with 118.
French fries were invented by Belgians and brought to the United States by Thomas Jefferson.
In a recent survey, 33% of pet owners talk to their animals through the phone or the answering machine.
A record that has never been broken, 55% of the cars in the world were Ford Model Ts in 1916.
Snails can sleep for three years without eating.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave it to Beaver”, while the first toilet flush was on “All in the Family.”
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
The movie “Volcano” cost as much to produce as the property damage caused by Mount Saint Helens’s eruption in 1980.
In Oklahoma, Violators can be fined or jailed for making ugly faces at dogs.
The average McDonald’s Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seed on it.
During arousal, testicles increase in size by 50%.
Banging your head against a wall can burn up to 150 calories per hour.
The Late, James Doohan, who played Scotty from “Star Trek”, is missing the middle finger on his right hand.
It takes sperm an entire hour to move just seven inches.
The first Harley-Davidson motorcycle was built in 1930 and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
One in eight Americans have worked at a fast food restaurant.
British women have been found to have the biggest breasts in Europe.
Hawaii’s Kalawao County is the poorest in America with an average household income of $9,859 and Colorado’s Douglas County is the richest with an average household income of $84,645.
Giving oral sex at least three times a week will keep a women looking young, according to one Chinese spiritual sect.
Roast turkey did not appear consistently on royal Christmas Day menus until 1851, when it replaced roast swan.
Lightning is likely to strike the same place twice, since it follows the path of least resistance.
Charlie Chaplin once covered his penis with iodine to ward off venereal disease before participating in an orgy.
The hood ornament design on a Rolls Royce is known as the Spirit of Ecstasy.
In a typical fast food restaurant, customers receive 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend.
Men are more likely to get a headache during orgasm than women.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All fifty states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a five-dollar bill.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The characters Bert and Ernie on “Sesame Street” were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s A Wonderful Life.”
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The blood used during the shower scene in “Psycho” was actually chocolate sauce.
The eyeballs of a giraffe protrude to such an extent that it can see in all directions without turning its head.
Polar Bears will often spend days on an ice floe floating out to sea, then plop into the frigid water and swim 100 miles or so back to shore.
Thomas Edison made the first Frankenstein film in 1910.
Ninety-nine percent of the 500,000,000 species that have existed on earth since the beginning of time are extinct.
Lynchburg, Tennessee, the home of Jack Daniels Whiskey, is a dry town unable to sell alcohol there.
Tigers have striped skin as well as fur.
It is illegal to import pork products into Yemen, with a maximum punishment of death.
When Walt Disney was stressed out, he would wash his hands up to 30 times an hour.
The corpse of Elvis Presley earns $15 million a year on admissions to Graceland.
The Slim Jim was invented in the 1940’s by Adolph Lewis to create a dried beef product easier to eat than a sausage. The sticks were stored in jars of vinegar and sold in bars like pigs feet, its current formula has 30 spices, but 29 of them are a mystery.
Everytime you lick a stamp you consume 1/10th of a calorie.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
When you blink your eye, you move more than 200 muscles.
About 10 million people share your birthday.
Tug of war was an Olympic event from 1900 to 1920, and will be again in 2004.
More than 19 million people belong to health clubs paying more than $ 6 Billion in dues. 1.3 million people don’t even show up.
Women are four times to shoplift than men.
On average 13 people per year die from vending machines falling on them.
The United States consumes more than 131 billion gallons of gasoline each year.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
Romania plans to spend $20 million by 2003 on a Count Dracula theme park.
The most common surname in the world is Lee.
You can make 7.5 million toothpicks from a cord of wood.
85% of men’s left testicles hang a bit lower than the right and circumcised men are 1.33 times more likely to receive oral sex than an uncircumcised man.
According to a study by the University of Chicago, women are attracted to men who smell like their fathers.
An Amish man with a beard is married.
The life span of a pair of crap dice in a casino is eight hours.
Astronauts can’t cry in space because there is no gravity, without which tears can’t flow.
In London, it’s illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle.
Captain Kirk never said “Beam me up Scotty.” He did say “ Beam me up, Mr. Scott.”
JFK reportedly claimed that if he didn’t get sex at least once a day, he would get headaches.
53 Americans were diagnosed with the plague from 1994-1999.
PepsiCo did not pay one cent in federal income taxes in 1999.
A person who practices oculolinctus, gets aroused by licking eyeballs.
A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the distance of the Wright Brothers first flight.
The longest worm known, Lienus longissimus, has been reported to exceed 150feet in length.
Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day.
85 percent of all potatoes grown in the North America become French fries.
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
There are two golf balls on the moon.
Pigs can get sunburned.
More than half the world’s population has never made or received a phone call.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The average women consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
The tongue is the fastest-healing part of the human body.
The time on all the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction was 4:20.
Japan leads the world in condom use.
It took 10 million bricks to build the Empire State Building.
In 1915, a telephone call from New York to San Francisco cost $20.70 for the first three minutes. Today the same call can be made for as little as five cents per minute.
Sony recalled 100,000 copies of Tiger Woods 99 after The Spirit of Christmas, the first episode of South Park was found hidden on the disc.
Anne Boleyn, the wife of Henry VIII, was rumored to have 11 fingers.
There are four million miles of road in the United States, only half of it is paved.
The blue prints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
In 2001, video games made more money than Hollywood earning $11 Billions.
A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words, found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-coms.
A single human tooth contains 55 miles of canals.
Most executive secretaries earn more than middle managers at the same company and are five times more likely to get an annual raise.
For his work on the movie The Wizard of Oz, the dog who played Toto earned $125 per week, the munchkins weekly salary was $50.
There are at least four parking spaces for every car in the United States.
In the past decade more than half of the Best Actor Oscars have gone to men playing characters with a mental or physical handicap.
King Kong’s roar was created by mixing the roar of a lion with the call of a tiger, then played backwards.
The largest collection of preserved human brains is maintained in a World War II era bomb shelter in Essex England-8,000 brains.
The approximate cost to make the movie Titanic was reportedly in excess of $200 million, if another Titanic ship were to be built today it would cost about $133 million.
A blind chameleon still changes colors to match its habitat.
$203 million is spent on barbed wire each year in the United States.
Pabst was the first beer to come packaged in six-packs in the late 1930s.
Bon Jovi’s New Jersey was the American rock album to be released in the former Soviet Union and received only $9,600 in royalties.
Top freestyle swimmers achieve a speed of only 5 mph, while fish have been clocked at 68 mph.
On average, there are 61,000 people in the air over the United Sates.
The YKK on zippers stands for Yoshida Kogy Kabushibidaisha , the world’s largest zipper maker.
Ten percent of the world’s population is left handed.
Space Invaders was the first game to feature a high score.
The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935.
Car tires are no longer put in landfills, because when they were buried in the past, the decomposition of other garbage and the process of compaction meant they would eventually rise to the surface.
It is impossible for you to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue.
A shrimp’s heart is its head.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period 80 years, no one reported a single case where a ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Horses can’t vomit.
The “Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is to be toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze hard enough you can fracture a rib, if you suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die and if you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the number of bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
If the U.S. government has no knowledge of extraterrestrial aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials and their vehicles?
In every episode of ‘Seinfield,’ there is a ‘Superman’ somewhere.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and
Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like
it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
Most boat owners name their boats –Obsession.
Women invented bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser
printers.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
There are more collect calls on Fathers Day than any other day of the year.
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
It is reported that 40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
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."
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 we know today as the honeymoon.
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"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or 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.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies
Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
It was reported that both Hitler and Napoleon had only one testicle.
It is a misconception that watching television in the dark is bad for your eyes.
Your foot is approximately the same length as your forearm.
Chickens go to bed early because they have terrible night vision.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 States.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off, it will die from starvation.
The word “FUCK” is used 257 times in the movie Pulp Fiction which broke the old record held by the movie Good Fellows with 246 times. The title was again broke by the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut which used the word “FUCK” 300 times.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
If you were standing in the northernmost point of the continental United States, you would be standing in Minnesota.
Only 33 percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland.
Maine is the only state that boarders only one state.
Women who swallow during oral sex are 82 percent more likely to become pregnant.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The skeleton of an average 160 pound body weighs about 29 pounds.
When chimpanzees watch television they prefer game shows.
The average adult eyeball weighs about one ounce.
Neil Diamond wrote the ballad “Heartlight” after seeing E.T.’s chest glow in the Motion Picture E.T. The Extra Terrestrial . He paid Universal Studios $25,000 so he could say the song was inspired by the film.
More than two thirds of pet owners let their animals stay in the room during sex.
One in 100,000 male babies is born with a double penis.
More than 45,000 pieces of plastic debris float on every square mile of ocean.
The water used to make the raindrops in the movie “Singin’ in the Rain” had milk added to them so the drops would show up better on film.
The beam of light shinning from the top of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas is the most powerful in the world and is visible to airplanes 250 miles away.
Humans can catch 65 different diseases from dogs.
The famous Hollywood sign, erected in 1923, originally said “Hollywoodland.”
The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas such as the forearm have only 13,000 bacteria per square inch.
The highest grossing film about sports is Adam Sandler’s “The Waterboy.”
Henry Ford was awarded Hitler’s Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
Universal Studios spent a record $68 million to promote the movie “Jurastic Park.” That is $8 million more than the movie cost to make.
In the United States deaf people have a safer driving record on average.
The Eiffel Tower’ height varies as much as six inches, depending on the air temperature.
Every three minutes someone in the world reports seeing a UFO. In the United States most reported sightings occur in July at 9 P.M. or 3 A.M.
Everyday blinking causes your eyes to be closed for about a half hour.
A sheep can remember another sheep’s face for more than two years.
Most carrots originally had a violet hue until the Dutch decided to cultivate them in their national color of orange in the 18th century.
The word “Atari” means “prepare to be attacked” in Japanese.
The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.
The average one dollar bill last for about 1.5 years in circulation and cost the government 2.5 cents to print. It is exchanged 400 times in it’s life time.
The most financially successful film directed by an African-American is Keenen Ivory Wayan’s “Scary Movie” which grossed $300 million worldwide.
In the biography “An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963” historian Robert Dallek reveled that President John F. Kennedy took Codeine, Demerol and Methadone for pain; Ritalin a stimulant; Meprobamate and Librium for anxiety; Barbiturates for sleep; Thyroid hormone; Injections of blood derivative gamma globulin, presumably to combat infections. Kennedy also is reported to of suffered persistent digestive problems and Addison’s disease a life-threatening lack of adrenal function which caused fatigue vomiting and low blood pressure. Suffering from spastic colitis that caused severe diarrhea, he took anti-diarrheal drugs that caused him to loose so much weight that he had to take doses of male hormone and testosterone.
More than half the bones in your body are located in your hands and feet.
There is enough iron in the human body to make one small nail.
Women blink almost twice as much as men.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
Beards are the fastest growing hair. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it could grow to 30 feet over the course of his lifetime.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails and your middle fingernail is the quickest one to grow.
It takes about 150 days to grow out a full length fingernail.
Your brain continues to send out electrical wave signals approximately 37 hours after death.
The nervous system transmits messages to the brain at speeds of 180 miles per hour.
The human nose can remember 50,000 different smells.
The human eye can detect more than 10,000,000 different colors!
Your jawbone is the hardest bone in your body.
When you were born, you had 350 bones in your body, and after childhood 144 of these bones fused together.
Your brain stops growing when you are about 15 years old.
Laughing and coughing put more pressure on the spine than walking or standing.
Your stomach produces a new lining every 3 days in order to avoid digesting itself in its own production of acid.
About every seven years, your body replaces the equivalent of an entirely new skeleton.
The spinal cord is less then two feet in length and is the same diameter as your index finger, yet it contains over 10 billion nerve cells.
Blood type A can receive blood types A & O safely. Blood type B can receive types B & O.
Blood type O can receive only O blood but are "universal donors" because O is acceptable to all other blood types. Blood type O is the most common blood type worldwide.
The eye muscle is the fastest reacting muscle of the whole body. It contracts in less than 1/100th of a second.
It takes approximately 200,000 frowns to create one permanent brow line.
Your eyesight is the sharpest in the middle of the day.
