Useless Facts

Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century. During that time it was provided in the form of a drink and since drinking wine during lent was a sin, so was drinking chocolate.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb.

The ruby red slippers in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" were sold off at an auction for $660,000.

Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is the deepest lake in the world.

Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale.

The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.

The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male.

Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.

In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark has killed in the past 100 years.

There are places in Saskatchewan called Elbow, Eyebrow, and Drinkwater.

Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee.

Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw.

A 27 year old heir to a sausage empire was handed a ticket for 116,000 pounds for driving at 80 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone. This is because the speeding tickets in Finland are based on how much money a person makes.

Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.

In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.

Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans."

Dating back to 336 A.D., Christmas was first celebrated in ancient Rome, around 300 years after Christ's birth.

The rarest chocolate bar in the world is the Porcelana bar. There are only 20,000 of these bars produced a year, and they sell for $90 per pound.

In ancient Egypt, the only person who was allowed to wear cotton was the High Priest.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Everyday approximately 35 meters of hair fibre is produced on the scalp of an adult.

Apple seeds are poisonous as they contain a cyanide compound.

Iceland was the first democratic country in the world.

There is a species of bird, Antpitta avis canis Ridgley, that barks like a dog.

Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide.

Ants do not sleep.