What useless, but interesting facts do you know (and can verify if possible)?

Question

eg, Fornication Under Concent of the King is the origination of the word F.U.C.K

Answer 1

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was
called Happy Rabbit.

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Walt Disney's first cartoon character was called
Oswald the Rabbit.

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There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the
Frog's neck.
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Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-
and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor
in "Treasure of Sierra Madre" in 1949.

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The song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was written by
George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland
in his life.

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The song "Happy Birthday to You" was originally written
by sisters Mildred and Patty Hill as "Good Morning to
You." The words were changed and it was published in
1935.

Answer 2

More people died in the flu epidemic after World War I than all the troops during the war.
The bosses of chimpanzee troops (troops again) are the oldest females.
The Black Plague was spread by fleas that lived on rats, not by the rats themselves. The Jews survived because they followed strict laws of hygiene, yet they were accused of originating the disease.
"Robinson Crusoe" was based on the tale of a Scotsman named Selkirk who was shipwrecked, but Defoe embroidered it to make it more interesting.
There is a sect in India that believes killing people is a sacred thing. They ambush people and murder them.
Assassins smoke hashish. No, the word came from men who would smoke hashish and then go berserker--the hashishim.

Answer 3

There are more germs around your mouth than there is around your a**ehole. So next time you are snogging your partner, just think, it would be more hygienic to stick your tongue up their a**e.

Donkeys kill more people a year than the Great White Shark.

You are more likely to be hit by lightening than to win the lottery.

Welsh footballer / actor Vinnie Jones holds the world record for the fastest booking ever in a football match, just 3 seconds!

Answer 4

All corn ears have an even number of rows. Often 12 or 14, but never thirteen. Can be researched in the outhouse!

Answer 5

There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper

In some state in the US it is illegal to push a moose out of a flying plane...

Answer 6

Despite the popularity of lawyer humor, there are actually only two lawyer jokes.

The rest are true stories.

Answer 7

The IQ of a carrot is 7. They earn points due to their responses to their environment. It's my response to anyone who tells me something random and encouraged my friends to rate each other's IQ if we bumped into anything or were slow to respond to anything.

Answer 8

The larvae of chiggers eat aphid eggs.

Answer 9

More people have died falling off the Monument than the Great Fire of London which it comemerates.

Answer 10

Cracking open an egg into a frying pan it always lands the right way up!!

Try it...