Useless Facts

[mysteriouza]

They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.

Cream does not weigh as much as milk.

Starfish have eight eyes, one at the end of each leg.

Iceland consumes more coca-cola per capita than any other nation.

Men get more hiccups often than women.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A female ferret will die if it goes on heat and cannot find mate.

On average 12 new-borns are given to the wrong parents daily.

Donal Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.

The Guinness Book of World Records holds its very own record for being the book most often stolen from libraries.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. Usually its the opposite.

If you put a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion it will go mad immediately and sting itself to death.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back you cannot sink into quicksand.

The number of possible moves of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

An old law in Washington made it illegal for women to take more than three move backwards while dancing.

4 people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.

It would take 6 years and 9 months of non-stop farting to produce enough gas to equal the power of an atomic bomb.

Lions can mate up 50 times a day.

The average bolt of lightning is 6 miles long. It's temperature can reach 50,000ªF - over four times that of the sun.

[avalon]

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back you cannot sink into quicksand.

Wow, thanks for the info. these facts aren't useless after all.