Anybody know any completely useless but funny facts?
2007-11-30 13:45:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.
The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimeter
On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.
The Chinese national anthem is called "the march of volunteers."
The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.
The average American family views television six hours each day.
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
2007-11-30 15:43:13 · answer #1 · answered by Connie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's an entire website devoted to this sort of knowledge. It's http://greatfacts.com/ and it has hundreds of odd facts.
Such as: "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village", "Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order, Radar is the same spelled forwards and backwards, "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969, and hundreds more.
2007-11-30 22:22:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
2007-11-30 22:05:18 · answer #3 · answered by Vsteph 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin that he built with his own hands.
2007-12-01 00:52:15 · answer #4 · answered by John F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans caused Global Warming and arent doing anything to stop it, its stupid, but is a fact.
2007-11-30 22:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Pop rocks was an accident. it was supposed to be a nuclear bomb
2007-11-30 21:55:35 · answer #6 · answered by Me! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
2007-11-30 21:58:13 · answer #7 · answered by Tom K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when a sperm whale ejaculates it releases 200 ltrs of ejaculant
2007-12-01 00:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by Jason F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot lick you elbow.....everyone who tries it is stupidd...hahaa just kidding
2007-12-01 07:29:33 · answer #9 · answered by the free spirit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
live spelled backwards
2007-11-30 23:47:49 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Anderson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋