Do you know any useless facts?

Question

Any & all contributions appreciated..Thanks!

Answer 1

I know a few.

Sharks can't sit still in water.
This keyboard is black.
I'm very tired.
And pretty hungry.


Informative......but usless.

Answer 2

Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.

Babies have 300 bones, but adults only have 206 bones due to some bones fused together during their growth.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Coca-cola used to contain cocaine because in it's early years, it's a tonic drink and not a soft drink
An Octopus has 3 hearts. It’s got two smaller hearts to force blood through the two gills and then a main heart called the systemic heart to force the blood everywhere else.

FALSE rumors claimed that the number 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. Not true, in fact in 1896, Henry John Heinz noticed an advertisement for '21 styles of shoes.' He decided to add the numbers '5' and '7' since the number held a special significance for him and his wife, he adopted the slogan '57 Varieties'.

Contrary to what schools have taught for years, Thomas Edison neither invented the light bulb nor held the first patent to the modern design of the light bulb. Joseph Swan from England, invented and obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year earlier, in 1878.

A young coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. It was done during World War II when blood supplies were low. Coconut water is identical to human blood plasma which makes it the universal donor. By drinking coconuts we give ourselves an instant blood transfusion.
The largest animal ever lived is the blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car and it's tongue is as long as an elephant and weight as much as a small one. Its mouth is large enough to hold up to 90 tonnes of food and water but despite that, it cannot swallow an object wider than a beach ball due to the dimension of its throat.

Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.

Burma are the only country where the cars are right hand-driven and driven on the right side of the road. As a former British colony, now named Myanmar drove on the left until 1970, when the military regime of Ne Win decreed that traffic would drive on the right. In spite of the change, most passenger cars mainly from Japan are right hand driven.

Answer 3

the moon weighs 81 billion tonnes

<90% shark attack victims survive

Bill Gate's house was designed using a mac

9 million other people have the same birthday as you

Johnny Depp suffers from self injury

Untill the 1960's men with long hair couldn't enter disney land.

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away

Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun

You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.

Answer 4

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

A snail can sleep for three years

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A
cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living

The most common name in the world is Mohammed

Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand
which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would
have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that
they were descendants of the devil

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne

The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
-- a New Zealand hill

Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks -otherwise it will digest itself.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Answer 5

blype is the given name to the skin that peels off after sun burn...... the largest ever pumpkin grown was over 482kg.. a 500gm loaf of bread requires 2 tones of water to grow the wheat to produce it....there are twice as many kangaroos in australia than people.. that enough for you

the leproasy thing is worng... my cat had leproasy.. it is just mycobacterium..

Answer 6

I am giving answer of this question. It is also useless fact.

Answer 7

I make use of them, 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. Wanna guess where?

Answer 8

yes.. the worlds most expensive spice is Saffron.

Antietam was the bloodiest battle in the american Civil War.

a dork is a whales penis.

ferrets are prone to cancer.


that should do for now :-)

Answer 9

Actually these are uncountable.
my answer itself is a useless fact :))

Answer 10

Some dogs like to chew on corn cobs.

Answer 11

1)The sky is blue because that is the strongest color of the spectrum...oh and boys are made of frogs and snails and puppy-dog tails
2) It is physically impossible to sneeze with your eyes open unless your Chuck Norris