Useless but interesting information

heres todays useless stuff for you to have a look @

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs… but not downstairs.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.”

The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their bums.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH " or “ORANGE”

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

“Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

he he…well did you?

hahahah. lmao. omg, i spent 5 minutes doing it.

actually i didn’t but i did try to fold the paper in half only got to 6!!! gonna get some really thin tissue paper n try :stuck_out_tongue:

the paper thing IS possible. i did it once 8 times. we kind of cheated though, cuz we used c-clamps and a vice

haha, ive tried to do that elbow thing before and i can get close to doing it, but i cant :frowning: ive heard most of that information before but i didnt know a pearl dissolved in vinegar… thats kewl…

im sorry… another useless fact…

mista bliss, your footer is too cool (for the 100th time)

I didn’t try to lick my elbow, but I <i>am</i> off to find some paper to fold… :evil:

the paper folding thing, must be what us brits do after readin the thread, must have been the americans that try to lick their elbow lol :stuck_out_tongue:

thats cuz you guys are weird.

The marilyn monroe thing is false…

Lmao! These are fun! They can be used with theese lil random pop-up messages “Did you know…?” :stuck_out_tongue:

Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

dammit! ow the heck didyou know??? :stuck_out_tongue:

But I doubt if all of tgose are true
for example:

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH " or “ORANGE” (start thinking ppl) :slight_smile:


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

“Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

^^^^ I knew these! =)

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.

Maybe the duck knows?

Dammit! Yeah, yeah, I tried to lick my elbow… at work… ugh.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

WHAT?! C’mon!

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Those two are amazing…

Hate to be pedantic(well I don’t really) but technically “Go,” isn’t a sentence since it ends with a comma instead of a full stop (or period for our American friends).

slap me.

well I think it’s just a typo because I’ve read it before from somewre and I remember exactly that there it was “Go!”

well “Hi!” is the same thing

“I am” is the shortest sentence. You need a subject and a predicate for it to be a sentence.

Yes I tried licking my elbow…

dammit…

i can’t!!

Raf has to come in here and ruin all the fun.
My friends and I ALWAYS try to lick our elbows… for some odd reason people look at us wierd. We also try to see the back of our heads, which also is physically impossible.

i almost tryed to fold the paper, but i was too lazy, never mind lick my elbow/