useless facts....?

Question

have any you want to share?

Answer 1

4 out of 3 people don't understand fractions.

Answer 2

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

A black cow is a chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream. The term dates from the Roaring Twenties, although it also came to be used to describe a root beer float. Another term for a black cow was a mud fizz.

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

Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples

Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.

President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."

Not all Golf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. Thereare also all different kinds of dimple patterns.

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

From Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me -- In the U.S., "shag" is far less offensive than in other English-speaking countries. Singapore briefly forced a title change to "The Spy Who Shioked Me." ("Shioked" means "treated nicely.")

Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Grand Rapids, Michigan is the "SpaghettiOs Capital of the World" because per-capita consumption is highest in that city, per the Franco-American Company. Reportedly, there are more than 1,750 "O's" in a 15-ounce can of SpaghettiOs.

Answer 3

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Answer 4

Humans spend a third of their life sleeping
your brain is 80 per cent water
your skin is the heaviest organ
sneezes travel at 100 miles per hour
babies are born without knee caps,they appear when they are 6years old.
a human tooth has 55 miles of canals in it.
lol.love Jo xx

Answer 5

Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.

When Gerber baby foods began to sell in parts of Africa, they continued to use their usual packaging, with the cute baby on the front. They didn't realize until later that where they were selling it, it was a common practice to help illiterate people buy things by putting pictures on the wrapper of what was inside.

The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

Answer 6

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

Human birth control pills work on gorillas

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds

Answer 7

You can't really determine the true ,exact number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop,people produce undetermined amounts of saliva so everyones answer would vary greatly.
oh,and a spoon is a utensil,but I'm more handy than that.>=)

Answer 8

8 out of 10 women are wearing the wrong size bra. well, maybe that's not so useless. lol

Answer 9

The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair

Answer 10

A pecan is actually the seed of a fruit. (and not a nut) Once the fruit ripens, it splits open exposing the seed. The leftover seed is our ever so delicious, buttery pecan nut.

Answer 11

If you drink a large amount of milk and then get into a hot tub, you will become sick because the milk will spoil in your stomach.
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
An ostriches eye is bigger than its brain.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

i could keep going on forever.