does anyone know these useless facts?

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Anyone know of these useless facts?

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.
David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
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Answer 1

For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Starfish have no brain.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
Bulls are color blind.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
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A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can't walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Answer 2

Wow, I never knew that!!!! That is really cool.

Some interesting facts you might want to know....

-Two men tried to pass of counterfeit money, the cashier realized it was fake because there were 2 bills that were worth $16 dollars each!!!
-Nail polish originated from China
-Cleopatra spoke 8 different languages
-In the 1985 movie Clue, the meal served at dinner was monkey's brains.

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Answer 3

It's actually a murder of crows. A flock of ravens is an unkindness. What kind of useless information are you trying to spread?

Answer 4

didn't know all of them but a lot of them. But the question is did you know:

More than 10000 birds a year die from flying into windows.
forty nine different kinds of food where mentioned in the bible.
a blowling pin has to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.
The lifespan of an eyelash is about 5 months

Answer 5

Goldfish have been proven to have quite advanced memories proven by their ability to correlate people with getting fed. So I spit on your useless facts!

Nosoop4u

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Glad to see that I am not the only one who carries useless information around....LOL

Answer 8

I knew all of them except the David Prowse info.....gosh you made my day! I think I'll walk a little taller and smile more today.

Answer 9

Wow, I only knew the one about the eyes! I knew that Barbie was disporportionate, but I didn't know her exact measurements.

Answer 10

thank you for this bit of useless information, enjoyed