The Useless Facts Game

[beetlequeendiva]

This is just a forum to tell everyone some useless facts. Here are some to start us of:

Did you know tomatoes don't float? (i know it shocked me too!!!)
10% of left handed people die as a result of right handed things.

 

[rattletrapmusicman]

Raw eggs don't spin well, but cooked eggs do.

 

[RED that's ME]

Red-headed people have more iron in their systems than any other hair color.
Red-Headed people also feel pain more (physically) than any other hair color.

 

[JD3DJ]

A normal pen has enough ink to write a straight line around the world.

 

[RED that's ME]

Seven U.S. Presidents had red hair...Martin Van Buren, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington

 

[ICE]

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word "not" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, "Thou shalt commit adultery." This legendary book is now known as the "Wicked Bible."

 

[ICE]

The first translation of the Bible into English was in 1382 A.D., by John Wycliff.

 

[ICE]

The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.

 

[RED that's ME]

There are only four words in the English language which ends in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

 

[ICE]

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

 

[Jacob4Jesus]

IN chicago it is illegal to:

It is forbidden to fish while sitting on a giraffe's neck

It is illegal to give a dog whiskey

You may be convicted of a Class 4 felony offense, punishable by up to three years in state prison, for the crime of "eavesdropping" on your own conversation

and It is legal to protest naked in front of city hall as long as you are under seventeen years of age and have legal permits.

 

[RED that's ME]

By the time the average person has graduated from high school, he has eaten 1500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

It takes over 1200 peanuts to make a 28-oz. jar of peanut butter

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

 

[Ryoko Ozaki]

(Ice is the best at truly useless information)

A googol is 1 followed by a hundred 0's.

Chewing gum will prevent you from crying when peeling onions.

I am ambidextrous.

 

[Ryoko Ozaki]

Did you know that the average person is an extremely general term that leaves me out?

 

[RED that's ME]

The Eisenhower Interstate System requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies

 

[Jacob4Jesus]

The Chinese observed Mongol invaders cooking in their metal helmets over open fires and deduced that the helmet was an efficient use of fuel and from this observation, they invented the wok.

 

[RED that's ME]

Most American cars honk in the key of F.

 

[Kakadu]

Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

 

[ICE]

Most toilets flush in E flat.

 

[MsAnne]

An armadillo can walk under water.