useless fact.?

Question

the name wendy was invented fot the story of peter pan.....
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Answer 1

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Only about 5% of the salt produced end up on the dinner table. The rest is used for packing meat, building roads, feeding livestock, tanning leather, and manufacturing glass, soap, ash and washing compounds. Source: "2201 Fascinating Facts"

The yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting.

All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.

Blimp useless facts. There are fourteen blimps in the world.Ten of the fourteen blimps are in the United States. The biggest existing blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.

The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, is usually is a fruit cake so it will last until the couple's first anniversary, when they will eat it.

Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

Easter is the first Sunday after the first Saturday after the first full moon after the equinox. (The equinox is quite often March 21, but can also occur on the March 20 or 22.)

The San Fransisco Cable cars and the St. Charles streetcar line in New Orleans are the nation's two mobile National Monuments

Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

The average sixty minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it.

If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were about 1,800 of them in China.

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile. Source: Sean Ohlenkamp

The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.

The side of a hammer is a cheek.

The bread slots in a toaster are toast wells.

A canton is the blue field behind the stars.

A bonnet is the cap on the fire hydrant.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.

The world's largest K-Mart is on the island of Guam. Source: Sal Rutter, Guam

The first Bowie knife was forged at Washington, Arkansas. Source: Joe Burkett

A standard grave is 7'8" x 3'2" x 6"

More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.

A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.

Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith (of the Monkees)'s mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.

Every male over the 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia according to state constitution.

Craven Walker invented the lava lamp, and its contents are colored wax and water.

In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least seven times.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. Source: Nick Collins

The national average ACT score is 17.

The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.

The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard! Source: Jeffery LaJaunie

The now retired architect, then a draftsman, who drew the plans for the original "Golden Arches" (McDonalds) building in Fontana, California, in the early 1950s, was Charles W. Fish. Source: Chris Fish

The next-to-last event is the penultimate, and the second-to-last event is the antepenultimate.

Everyone in the Middle Ages believed -- as Aristotle had -- that the heart was the seat of intelligence. Source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts"

In many ancient religions the mistletoe was regarded as a sacred plant. The Druids believed that a sprig of mistletoe fastened above a doorway would ward off all sorts of ills, such as witchcraft, disease, bad luck and fire. In addition, it would enhance the hospitality -- and fertility -- of the household. Hence the English Christmas custom of kissing under the mistletoe.
But to the Norsemen the mistletoe was a baleful plant, because it caused the death of Baldur, the shining god of youth. Source: "Reader's Digest Book of Facts"

Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday. Source: "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader"


Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, therefore the name!

The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer.

You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown.

You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.

Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

The average human's heart will beat 3000 million times in their lifetime.

The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.

You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.

There are 26 calories in a Hershey Kiss.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

The average person will consume one hundred tons of food and twelve thousand gallons of water in a lifetime.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.

Money is made of woven linen, not paper.

The first U.S. coin to bear the words "United States of America," was a penny piece made in 1727. It was also inscribed with the plain-spoken motto: "Mind Your Own Business."

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

Answer 2

That, Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, didn't actually invent it. He bought it off two Canadians who were working on it as a university project. Annd that goldfish have a 3 second memory span, when they get to the other side of the bowl, they'll forget how they got there!!

Answer 3

I thought that was Wendy Houses not the name Wendy....Are you able to provide evidence of your 'usless fact?'

Answer 4

It's impossible to lick ur own elbow.

Answer 5

windy miller in the windmill

Answer 6

there is more sugar in a pound of lemons than a pound of strawberries.

(allegedly)

Answer 7

You are quite right well done!!!

Answer 8

yes i have a word i think was invented for someone!
it's "ARSEHOLE" for GEORGE.W.BUSH.