Useless facts to keep you entertained since I am not!

Busy at work, going insane, heres some shit....

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears. never stop growing.

Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality.

In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes."

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.

The rarest coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak, which is found in Indonesia. It cost about $300 a pound.

In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest bar per capita than anywhere else in the world.

In 1477, the first diamond engagement ring was given to Mary of Burgundy by Archduke Maximillian of Austria.

On April 6, 1925, the first in-flight movie was shown. It was a silent film and appeared on a Deutsche Luft Hansa flight.

By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years.

Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner.

The 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was able to write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.

The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.

Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country.

The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.

Wood frogs can be frozen solid and then thawed, and continue living. They use the glucose in their body to protect their vital organs while they are in a frozen state.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.

Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns.

The word assassination was invented by William Shakespeare.

Approximately one out of every 55 women from Canada give birth in their car on the way to the hospital or clinic.

Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections.

The most expensive animated movie is "Prince of Egypt", which cost $70 million to make.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours.

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The Greek Philospher Socrates was trained for stonecutting.

New Mexico's state bird is the roadrunner.

Most lipstick contains fish scales

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.

Cashew nuts contain oil in the shell that is very irritating to the skin.

The Uape Indians, who live in the Amazon, mix the ashes of their recently cremated relatives with alcohol, then all members of the family drink the mix with fond memories of the deceased.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

The Kool Aid Man used to be known as "Pitcher Man" when he was first introduced in 1975.

There is a town called Fucking, in Austria.