More completely useless facts

They were building up on me so here's another edition of crap you never needed to know.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.

The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather.

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

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

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

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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".

Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.

There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.

A single sausage measuring 5,917 feet (1,804 m) in length was cooked in Barcelona, Spain on September 22, 1986.

Rubber is one of the ingredients of bubble gum. It is the substance that allows the chewer to blow a bubble

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.