I'm a sucker for useless trivia and facts. Some of them scientists have too much time and money in their hands. [font=Verdana, Arial]In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]Women blink nearly twice as much as men.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]In every episode of Seinfeld there is a superman somewhere.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]if a man watches a woman undress in front of a window, he can be arrested as a peeping tom, if a woman watches a man undress in front of a window, she can have him arrested for indecent exposure.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]A hummingbird weighs less than a penny[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]Chewing gum while cutting onions will prevent crying[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]the longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]More food is thrown out each day in the United States than is needed to feed its hungry . . . by McDonalds.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]It is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a kerb in St. Louis.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The most common name in the world is Mohammed[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial]An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. [/font][font=Verdana, Arial]05 July 2004, [/font][font=Verdana, Arial]www.liverpoolfc.tv message board [/font]
I'm note sure I agree with all of these, for example a jiffy used to be defined as the time taken for a cycle of a system clock, ie 1/50th of a second for most of the world (naturally besides the US and Canada )
The people that have already walked past you can return home to reproduce. Their offspring would grow up and hence join the population line, etc.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. hmm, i thot american footballs are made from pig skin.
Talking about facts... the US goverment is considering banning McDonalds from using French Fries , Big Mac and Coca-Cola. This will be the worse scenario you can think of from the Fast food industries. Think of that.. what if they Ban fried Chicken from KFC? KFC might have to close shop.
The average humming bird weighs more than the average penny. In fact, most huming birds weight more than the US penny (3g or more vs less than 2g)
the 13-second chicken thing is suspect too. it's all over the net but never attributed. And I do remember hearing about trained chickens that could sustain "flight" for almost a minute
