Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Ummm, Useless facts

I may try to post tomorrow I am lazy and emotional right now since my Chrisie poo left me again so here's some useless shit to entertain you til then.

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

Each year over $2,000,000,000 worth of Halloween candy is sold.

The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on hemp paper.

The average person has a vocabulary of 5000-6000 words.

The umbrella originated in Mesopotamia in 1400 B.C. It was used for shade. The word umbrella is derived from the Latin word for a shade, umbra.

In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

The first TV was demonstrated in 1928 and it the screen was 3 inches by 4 inches.

In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Like fingerprints,everyone's tongue print is different.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

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

Turtles breath out of their butts.

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

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,two rats could have over a million descendants.

Every year more than 2500 left handed people are killed from using right handed products.

The deepest cave in the world is the "Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht" cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep.

Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.

Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear'' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image.