Useless Facts

So the concert didn't happen yesterday, well it may have but I wasn't there to find out. Canowine didn't come down because it was storming up there and it was supposed to storm here. I had a headache anyway, so we went to Chipotle and ate massive burritos and walked around a craft store where I threw fits and sang loudly to music and when the played Elvis songs I said really loud "Elvis died on the shitter!" just to make sure everyone around knew that he did. And here's some more useless facts:

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.

John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $453,500.

When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time.

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born

In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs.

Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock '99

In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."

Director George Lucas had trouble originally getting funding for Star Wars because most studios thought most people wouldn't bother seeing it.

Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

In 1989, twenty-three people were hired in Jacksonville Florida just to flush toilets so the pipes would not freeze.

The cost to build the Empire State Building was $40,948,900.

It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines.

An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.

There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, "Gadsby," without any word containing the letter "e."