Useless

I still don't really have much to say. My buddy Chris and his wifey have been staying with us since Vday and will be leaving us tomorrow. Its been fun having friends again and just sitting around and bullshitting. But besides that nothing but work and hanging out so here's some useless facts!

The world record for the number of body piercings on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.

With winds of 50 miles per hour, The Statue of Liberty sways three inches and the torch sways five inches.

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.

The average American drinks 400 glasses of milk in a year.

Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds.

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

It is possible to get high by licking a toad. The Cane Toad produces a toxin called bufotenine to ward off predators. When licked, this toxin acts as a hallucinogen.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In 1998, Ten Speed Press publishing company published a book, "The Eat A Bug Cookbook" by David George Gordon that contains over 33 bug recipes.

It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtle.

Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years.

Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet, which can complete one revolution in less than ten hours.

In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The only poisonous birds in the world are the three species of Pitohui. The Hooded Pitohui from Papua New Guinea is the most deadliest out of the three.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job.

The temperature of lightning bolts is sometimes hotter than the surface of the sun.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

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

Outside London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city, and was used to film more than 140 films in 2002.

In the 18th century, potatoes were given out as a dessert. They were served in a napkin, salted and hot.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

The tuatara lizard of New Zealand has three eyes, two in the center of its head and one on the top of its head.

There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark.

The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot.

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