Who knows any useless facts? Here are a few to start the ball rolling:?

Question

-There are two credit cards for every american in the world
-Napoleon always carried his hat by his side so that when he recieved bad news he could throw it on the floor and jump up and down on it.
-For every one person in the world there is one gun.
-There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing.

Answer 1

More people are killed by donkeys than people who are killed in plane crashes per year

so lets hope your not stuck on a plane with a donkey.

And my old favourite completley useless fact!

St John's Wood Underground station in London is the only underground station in London.NOT to contain letters from the word Mackrel.

I mean that is completely useless to anyone!

Answer 2

What a great question - I love useless facts!!
Here's a few for you...

- You share your birthday with about 9 million other people

- Right handed people live, on average, 7 years longer than left handed people

- Only humans and dolphins have sex for fun

- It is impossible to lick your elbow (how many of you will now try this?!)

- Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year (if only it was real!)

- The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7

- About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute

Answer 3

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

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

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Answer 4

You are more likely to die from falling from a donkey than from a plane crash.
Rub an onion on the sole of your foot and you will taste it 30 minutes later. It is also good for lowerng temperature when you have a fever.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump
The name Wendy was created for Peter Pan.
Alligators can't stick out their tongues.
The most common forename in the world is Mohammed
Shakespeare was born and he died on the 23rd April

Answer 5

The Comic Strip Peanuts was originally called Little Folks.

In the state of Idaho it is illegal to fish from the back of a giraffe.

Rear view mirrors were originally opposed by police departments who preffered to pull in behind motorists unobserved.

Answer 6

1, there is only one lake in the british lake district, its lake bathenswaite, every other large expanse of water either has water or mere in it meaning its not named lake

2, a husky has an extra set of arteries, its blood flows round its rib cage to heat up before it returns to the the heart oher wise it could die in cold temperature.

3, when inject intravenosly it would take an air bubble 3ft long to stop the heart.

4, this is the best question on yahoo answers tonight

Answer 7

Mansion house tube station has all the vowels in it
The Irish drink more tea per capita than anyone else
Hull City is the only football team where the letters can't be coloured in.

Best one is:
johnstrangey said that children are colourblind until they are 6 months old.
He is wrong!

Answer 8

A pound of lead is actually heavier than a pound of gold, but an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of lead.
Precious metals are weighed in Troy weight with 480 grains to an ounce but only twelve ounces (5,760 grains) to a pound.
Just about everything else is weighed in Avoirdupois weight, which has sixteen ounces at a mere 437.5 grains to an ounce, and 7,000 grains to a pound.

Answer 9

The cake on the cover of the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed album was baked by Delia Smith.

Answer 10

I wouldn't believe what that woman with the silly voice says (as opposed to sings) about the Beijing bikes - it's a little short of that I fear.