Random, Useless Facts That You Never Needed to Know But That We’re Going to Tell You Anyway: The Bumper Edition
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Kristina Adams |
June 22nd, 2012
Posted in Etc. | Comments: 1
- Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen. Sorry.
- Some people say that you can’t apply mascara without gawping like a fish. Also not true.
- Giraffes can’t cough.
- The Welsh version of the wizard Merlin’s name is Myrddin. The legend was originally told in Welsh.
- Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Lateness can be a way of manifesting anger.
- The bubbles in sparkling wine are caused by dirt on the inside of the glass.
- Men sleep on the right hand side of the bed, women sleep on the left…but nobody knows why.
- Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Starfish don’t have brains.
- The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQs is greater than the total population of North America.
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populated in the world.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- If you cut a Starfish into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole Starfish.
- Your hair and nails don’t keep growing when you die; your skin shrinks slightly, revealing more of the hair follicles, meaning that it appears to do so.
- Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
- Part of the reason vampires are associated with sex is because when potential vampires were dug up in the middle ages, some of the males would have erections caused by the gases in them.
- It costs £10,000 for an Eco-sign powered by wind. By law they must put a normal sign next to it for when it’s not windy.
- A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
- The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
- Sound travels four times faster in water than air.
- House flies have an average lifespan of two weeks.
- Monday is the most popular day for people to commit suicide.
- Sharing mascara is the most common way to acquire conjunctivitis.
- Seven and a half million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
- Almost ninety one percent of senior citizens rely on prescription drugs on a regular basis.
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- Yoghurt can be used to soothe sunburn.
- Forty to fifty percent of body heat can be lost through the head.
- A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.
- Our eyes never change in shape or size as we get older…
- …but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- One in five office coffee mugs contains traces of E.Coli and fecal bacteria.
- J.K.Rowling is worth more than the Queen.
- Around fifty percent of marriages end in divorce.
- Rebecca Black was one of the most Googled people of 2011.
- Cliff Richard has had a number one single in every decade of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.
- Women can’t sleep if their feet are too cold. (I have no idea if the same is true for men.)
- The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee.
- When sending an email, “CC” stands for “Carbon Copy” and “BCC” stands for “Blind Carbon Copy”.
- The record for the most number of times a woman has been married is held by Linda Wolfe (born Linda Lou Taylor), who has been married twenty three times.
- The record for the most number of times a man has been married is held by Glynn Wolfe, who married Linda Wolfe a year before he died to become the world’s most married man.
- One in four people will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime.
- Jeanne Calmet of France lived to 122 years, 164 days. She lived from 1857 until 1997.
- The oldest person still living is Bessee Cooper, who is 115 years old and was born in 1896.
- The Romans invented cranes, roads, aqueducts, amphitheatres and indoor plumbing.
- The chicken tikka masala is thought to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland, but some people argue otherwise, suggesting that it originated in Birmingham, Newcastle or Punjab.
- In a seventeen year career, Elvis Presley released eighty one albums and thirty nine films.
- The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- The narrowest building in London is only seven foot wide, but it is currently on sale for £275,000.
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The elephant does not have four knees… Sorry. It has two knees, like mammals generally do. The two front legs are elbows; they do not have a knee-cap.