Useless Facts

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Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

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

A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation

In 1982, Larry Walters tied 24 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet.

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959.

The 1912, a wrestling match in Stockholm between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won, but was to tired to participate in the championship match.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.

George Washington grew hemp in his garden.

The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

Another word for hiccups is "singultus."

Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois and saved over 77 lives.

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.

The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."

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

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.