--( Deliciously Useless Info )--

Accuracy is implied but not guaranteed ; )

Boiled water will freeze faster than cold water. (Thanks Carla)
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens in the world than humans.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Maine is the only State whose name is just one syllable.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
There are only four words in the English language that end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazzardous.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in "mt".
26 of the 50 States are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.
The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.
A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the water displacing substance.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.
In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour.
On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
Worldwide, bats are the most important natural enemies of night-flying insects.
Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.
Lyndon Johnson died one mile from the house he was born in.
On April 14th, 1910, President Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first baseball of the season. That happened at an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. Washington won, 3-0.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.
Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.
In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food.
The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.
The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.
Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
No one seems to know why people blush.
Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)
Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
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.
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.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, Hampshire, Virginia and New York.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
Karoke means empty orchestra in Japanese.
Zorro means fox in Spanish.
monosyllable actually has five syllables in it.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
In English, four is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
No president of the United States was an only child.
There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.
Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
The first recording of the human voice, by Thomas Edison in 1877, was "Mary had a Little Lamb."
Mount Olympis Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount. Everest.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.
There are 108 stiches on a baseball.
250 million tires are disposed of each year in the U.S.
The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.
A common incorrect useless fact - On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. Wrong its a Union Jack.
In an average lifetime the human heart circulates 55 million gallons of blood.
Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as philtrums.
Willard Scott was the first RonaldMcDonald.

The information presented here has been gathered from many sources, but are NOT originated by me personally.
Who thinks up/investigates/researches this stuff? Better yet, do they get paid to do it?
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