Funny useless fact
cbratthauer
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So I'm bored at work looking up useless facts when I came across this- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants
Really makes me kinda sick to my stomach to think about all that food!!!
Really makes me kinda sick to my stomach to think about all that food!!!
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Wow! Here's another one- 80% of 10 year old girls in the U.S. go on a diet.0
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Ok one more- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!0
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"You unknowingly swallow an average of four live spiders in your sleep each year."
This isnt true but many people believe it...thought it was funny......
Okay dont freak out.....if you are freaked out read this..............http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/whileyousleep.html0 -
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
I found a ton lol!!0 -
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Freekin bi/ches!!!0 -
Apparently Hippo milk is Pink
to quote big beaver (i think) I always wondered where strawberry quick came from :laugh:0 -
"You unknowingly swallow an average of four live spiders in your sleep each year."
This isnt true but many people believe it...thought it was funny......
Okay dont freak out.....if you are freaked out read this..............http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/whileyousleep.html
I swallowed a tarantula in my sleep.0 -
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
NICE!!!!0 -
When reading horizontally from Shakespeare's original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads 'I am a homosexual' in the last 14 lines of the book. Was this a message, or just a coincidence?0
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Some of these I'm reading are weird lol0 -
"You unknowingly swallow an average of four live spiders in your sleep each year."
This isnt true but many people believe it...thought it was funny......
Okay dont freak out.....if you are freaked out read this..............http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/whileyousleep.html
I swallowed a tarantula in my sleep.
And a cobra:happy:0 -
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
not true. When we learned of this, my kids and I became determined to prove it isn't true. It is hard to resist, but it isn't impossible.0 -
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Love this one too lol0 -
Eating your exercise calories will not make you gain weight.0
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I have a Useless Facts app on my phone. Some of the ones I've read are
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into it eyeballs. It will let you go instantly
The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking.
By raising your legs and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Snail breathe through their feet.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.0 -
A whale's weiner is called a dork....
... does that make me a whale's weiner? Quite the paradox0 -
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
not true. When we learned of this, my kids and I became determined to prove it isn't true. It is hard to resist, but it isn't impossible.0 -
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Greaaat....0 -
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Greaaat....
HAHA unless you walk
Oh wait dang it.....still red lights there....NEVA MIND!0 -
Barbies Measurements if she was life size 39-23-33.......Wonder if a man designed her?0
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters all have in common? A. All invented by women.
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Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop.
UHHHH! omg!!!! If THAT doesn't make you stop biting your nails I don't know what would!!!0
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