Useless Facts / Trivia
Some Useless Facts
- Most lipstick contain fish scales!
- A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
- Porcupines float in water!
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
- Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
- Marie and Pierre Curie refused to patent their process of making radium, declaring it belonged to the world – no one had the right to profit from it.
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
- You can't tickle yourself.
- You can't trademark surnames.
- The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
- In most watch advertisments the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling.
- Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
- India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
- Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- Insects consume 10% of the world's food supply every year.
- The term karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
- More than 60 million people annually visit France, a country of 60 million people.
- All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
- The water we drink is three billion years old.
- Ants don't sleep.
- Camel milk does not curdle.
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
