GAME: 1,000,001 Useless Facts

[sublime311]

*Posting under games because I'm not sure it would qualify as chit chat.

Take turns posting useless, yet interesting, facts. Me first. :D

1. Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.

[Brandles]

2. A duck's quack does echo--it just has a very, very short "bounce back" time.

Darn it...this isn't as easy as I thought it would be!

[sublime311]

3. The Mexican Jumping Bean is not a bean. It is actually a thin-shelled section of a seed capsule containing the larva of a small gray moth called the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).

[nicole]

4. Lobsters can lay up to 100,000 eggs at a time. (Most don't make it)

[Brandles]

5. A truck gets better gas milage if the tailgate is taken off and replaced with that plastic mesh.

[sublime311]

6. Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.

[Adaya]

7. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

[sublime311]

8. In 1907, on New Year's Eve, the original ball that was lowered in Times Square was made of wood and iron and had 100 light bulbs on it.

[Adaya]

9. A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea.

[sublime311]

10. January is National Soup Month.

[Adaya]

11. In 1894, the carnival made its debut in North America.

[sublime311]

12. 111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321

[nicole]

13. The fear of the number 13 is called triskadecaphobia.

[Adaya]

14. Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.

[nicole]

15. SCUBA stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

[Toonces]

16. Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

[nicole]

17. Similarly, your foot is the same size as the distance between your wrist and your elbow. (Put your shoes back on! :p)

[Toonces]

No wonder I have long arms... I have big feet! :p

18. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

[Adaya]

19. The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.

[sublime311]

20. It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.

[jellybeany]

21. In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.

[sublime311]

22. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

[Toonces]

23. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

Bummer... :(

[sublime311]

24. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

[Adaya]

21. Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

[sublime311]

22. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

[Brandles]

23. There is a lightbulb in a California firehouse that has been burning for 105 years.

http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm

[Txfish]

(I SO did not need to know #18! Ack!

24. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

[Brandles]

25. A can of Diet Coke will float in water, where as a can of regular Coke will sink.

[sublime311]

26. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

[Adaya]

27. A group of ravens is called a murder.

[Toonces]

28. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

[sublime311]

29. Under the International System of Units, the second is currently defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.

Yeah, so there. :p

[HeatherFL]

Kelli Wait?! My Physics Professor told me I was going to need that information! (Physics was one of my two majors LOL)

There is a town named F*cking in Austria! I wonder if the people there always walk around with smiles on their faces? :D

~H.

[sublime311]

Heather, I can assure you that it is useless to me! lol

31. The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

[Adaya]

32. Under Napoleon, canned food was invented to feed his army as it invaded Russia. One of the scientists involved was Louis Pasture, inventor of the pasteurization process. Their method of canning food has barely changed to this day.

[sublime311]

33. Tabasco sauce is made by fermenting vinegar and hot peppers in a French oak barrel which has three inches of salt on top and is aged for three years until all the salt is diffused through the barrel.

[Adaya]

34. Eating cheese slows the decay of teeth.

[PookiePrincess]

35. An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.

[Adaya]

36. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

[PookiePrincess]

37. In a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad it.

[Adaya]

38. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Interesting....

[PookiePrincess]

39. Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.

[Adaya]

40. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

[PookiePrincess]

41. The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

[Adaya]

Thought this was appropriate for today.....

42. In Las Vegas, the busiest and two most popular days chosen for couples to get married are St. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve.

[ignutzz]

43. The lithotomy birthing position was promoted by King Louis XIV for his personal sexual gratification and serves no practical medical benefit to the mother. In fact, it works directly against a normal body's birthing cues.

[ignutzz]

44. Mountain Unicycling is an actual sport.

[PookiePrincess]

45. The reason why women's dress shirt buttons are on the left and men's on the right is because when buttons were first used during the Victorian period maids used to dress the ladies, and since the maids put on their shirts the buttons were put on the servants right side, hence the women's left.

[Adaya]

46. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

[PookiePrincess]

47. During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.

[sublime311]

48. Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

[Brandles]

49. In Saudi Arabia, they banned The Muppet Show because one of the lead characters is a pig.

[sublime311]

50. The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

[Brandles]

51. The last major airport, alphabetically, according to international airport codes is ZZV, which is in Zanesville, Ohio.

[Adaya]

52. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.

[sublime311]

53. You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.

[Brandles]

54. The only bone that has never been broken in ski accident is the bone in the inner ear.

[HeatherFL]

55. Alan Thicke (the dad on Growing Pains) wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rnt Strokes.

[mgmhmj]

56. Cheetahs are the only felines that can't retract their claws.

[Adaya]

57. Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.

[PookiePrincess]

58. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

[Adaya]

59. Of all the countries, Brazil has the most plant species, with over 56,000.

[PookiePrincess]

60. Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.

[Adaya]

61. In the year 1900, for a women to be a telephone operator she had to be between the ages of 17 and 26 and not be married.

[sublime311]

62. In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled seven times.

[Foley42]

63. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

[Adaya]

64. Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

[HeatherFL]

65. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

[sublime311]

66. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

[CLW4KU]

67. Your foot is the same length as your arm from elbow to wrist.

[Adaya]

68. Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.

[sublime311]

69. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

[PookiePrincess]

70. There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.

[sublime311]

71. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.

[PookiePrincess]

72. 65% of the candy that is produced in a year is consumed by American adults 18 years and older.

[sublime311]

73. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

[CLW4KU]

74. It costs more than 1 cent to make a penny

[PookiePrincess]

75. If all the cars from the U.S. were taken and lined up from bumper to bumper, there would be enough cars to go to the moon from earth and back.

[Adaya]

76. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

[Foley42]

77. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

[Adaya]

78. Marvin Gardens in the Monopoly game is not spelled the same as the Marven Gardens outside of Atlantic City, NJ, which the board game is based on.

[Foley42]

79. The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.

[sublime311]

80. Coca-Cola was originally green.

[Brandles]

81. A penny hasn't been fully copper since 1982.

[nicole]

82: If you sneeze when you look at the sun, you have a disorder called autosomal dominant compelling heliopthalmic outburst syndrome (sometimes abbreviated (badly) ACHOO syndrome).

[Adaya]

83. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

[sublime311]

84. 85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.

[Adaya]

LOL@ #84

85. An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.

[PookiePrincess]

86. A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping.

(I know mine does!)

[honeygirl]

87. The saguaro cactus lives at least 75 years before it grows the first arm (which is for water storage).

http://www.arizonaplants.com/images/arizona_saguaro_cactus_a.jpg

[sublime311]

88. The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

(no wonder my tastes are always changing... they're literally CHANGING!)

[Adaya]

89. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

[PookiePrincess]

90. As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.

[sublime311]

91. "Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.

[Foley42]

92. Almonds are members of the peach family.

[sublime311]

93. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

[Adaya]

94. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

[jellybeany]

95. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

[sublime311]

96. About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

[snapdragon]

Sharks are immune to all known diseases

[sublime311]

98. A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.

[Sazoo]

99. All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.

[PookiePrincess]

100. Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.

[sublime311]

101. Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.

(kind of a "well, duh" fact, but it is useless, so there!)

[snapdragon]

102. If you tie an object directly around a cat's middle they will lose all sense of balance and fall over. :)

It's a great party trick ;)

[Adaya]

103. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City.

[honeygirl]

104. Peanuts aren't in the nut family, they are legumes.

[honeygirl]

105. Coffee (in the form of fertile beans) was originally brought/smuggled into Brasil hidden in a bouquet of roses.

(I've been watching the National Geographic channel tonight, LOL)

[jellybeany]

106. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

[Adaya]

107. Every year, Dunkin' Donuts sells more than 2.3 billion donuts.

[Little Angel '77]

108. The human head weighs 8 pounds

[sublime311]

109. "Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

[Brandles]

110. A cow will walk up a set of stairs...but not down them.

[sublime311]

111. 10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria

[PookiePrincess]

112. All babies are color blind when they are born.

[sublime311]

113. An ant's sense of smell is as good as a dog's.

[PookiePrincess]

114. The highest consumption of Pizza occurs during Super Bowl week.

[Foley42]

115. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

[PookiePrincess]

116. It is possible to get high by licking a toad. The Cane Toad produces a toxin called bufotenine to ward off predators. When licked, this toxin acts as a hallucinogen.

[Adaya]

117. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

[PookiePrincess]

118. The oldest major soft drink in America is Dr. Pepper, which originated in Waco, Texas in 1885.

[sublime311]

119. Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.

[PookiePrincess]

120. Fingerprints of koala bears are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans

[Adaya]

121. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

[PookiePrincess]

122. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field.

[Adaya]

123. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

[PookiePrincess]

124. If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

[Adaya]

125. The Los Angeles Lakers used to be the Minneapolis Lakers.

[jellybeany]

126. Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus

[PookiePrincess]

127. Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

[Adaya]

128. 33 million Hershey Kisses are made daily.

[PookiePrincess]

129. The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.

[Adaya]

130. Recipe testers spend 8,798 hours testing recipes and techniques for the latest edition (2006) of The Joy of Cooking cookbook.

[PookiePrincess]

131. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

[jellybeany]

132. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

[PookiePrincess]

133. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

[Foley42]

134. A killer whale's heart beats 30 times a minute under water and 60 times a minute on the surface.

[jellybeany]

135. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

[fastlayne224]

136. In 1988, Jamie Lee Curtis, actress, patented a disposable diaper. Patent #4753647 was issued for her design of "a disposable infant garmet which takes the form of a diaper including, on its outer side, a sealed, but openable, moisture proof pocket which contains one or more clean up wipes.

[Sazoo]

137. 99% of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.

[jellybeany]

138. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

[Foley42]

139. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

[jellybeany]

140. Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

[nicole]

141. There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is no farther than 80 miles away.

[PookiePrincess]

142. The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

[sublime311]

143. The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.

[PookiePrincess]

144. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

[Adaya]

145. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.

[jellybeany]

146. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

[Sazoo]

147. Hundreds of years ago, only wealthy people wore underwear.

[PookiePrincess]

148. 850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

[sublime311]

149. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

[PookiePrincess]

150. A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.

[sublime311]

151. The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.

[PookiePrincess]

152. After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavor.

[sublime311]

153. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

[PookiePrincess]

154. Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

[sublime311]

155. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

[PookiePrincess]

156. An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet.

[sublime311]

157. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

[PookiePrincess]

158. 27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.

[sublime311]

159. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

[PookiePrincess]

160. 3% of pet owners give Valentine's gifts to their pets on Valentine's Day.

[sublime311]

161. No NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl.

[PookiePrincess]

162. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.

[sublime311]

163. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight" comes from.

[PookiePrincess]

164. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

[sublime311]

165. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the Army for the General Purpose vehicle, G.P.

[PookiePrincess]

166. In 1890, there was no sunshine for the whole month of December in Westminster in London.

[sublime311]

167. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month," or what we know today as the honeymoon.

[PookiePrincess]

168. Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit.

[snapdragon]

169. A sloth moves so slow that algae actually grows on it.

[sublime311]

170. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. (YIKES!)

[PookiePrincess]

171. A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.

[sublime311]

172. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."

[PookiePrincess]

173. A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

[tgray99]

174. The man that invented the Eveready battery gave away the company so that he could play with his model trains.

[sublime311]

175. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

[PookiePrincess]

176. A full grown horse's intestines are approximately 89 feet long.

[tgray99]

177. The spacecraft in Apollo 13 was named Odyssey. In Greek odyssey means a voyage filled with many ups and downs.

[sublime311]

178. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.

[PookiePrincess]

179. A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.

[tgray99]

180. The most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've Lost That Loving Feeling which was written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil. Although recorded by different artists, the song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back! Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order).

[sublime311]

181. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

[PookiePrincess]

182. Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.

[jellybeany]

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

[PookiePrincess]

184. In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.

[kandi007]

185. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

[PookiePrincess]

186. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony.

[tgray99]

187. From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.

[PookiePrincess]

188. An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

[tgray99]

189. In Texas it's legal for a chicken to have sex with you, but it's illegal to reciprocate.

[PookiePrincess]

190. There is an organization called SCROOGE in Charlottesville, Virginia that stands for Society to Curtail Ridiculous, Outrageous, and Ostentatious Gift Exchanges. This was formed to keep gift giving affordable and simple.

[mindy75]

191. The first television couple to share a bed was Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns of the sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny. The show ran live from 1947-1950 on the DuMont network and was also the first situation comedy ever broadcast in the United States.

[jellybeany]

192. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

[PookiePrincess]

193. People from the United States eat the most chicken per person than anywhere else in the world.

[mindy75]

194. If we all truly "ate like birds" we'd be comsuming 10 times our body weights everyday.

[PookiePrincess]

195. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

[mindy75]

196. In 1831, Edward Smith became the first indicted bank robber in the US. He was sentenced to 5 years hard labor at Sing Sing prison.

[tgray99]

197. The former mascots (dogs) at Texas A&M are buried near the stadium with their own scoreboard nearby so they can "see" the score at all times.

[BlackMagicRose]

198. Rootbeer was first sold in pharmacies as an "herbal" drink.

[Adaya]

199. Approximately 30 billion cakes of Ivory Soap had been manufactured by 1990.

[PookiePrincess]

200. During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.

[tgray99]

200. During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
A point DH never fails to remind me of when I try that excuse. :rolleyes:

[Adaya]

201. L'eggs supported the women of the 1994 and 1996 United States Olympic Teams.

[PookiePrincess]

202. The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online.

[Adaya]

203. Rice is grown on more than 10 percent of the earth's farmable surface.

[Foley42]

202. The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online.
I'm way above the average:o

204. A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle.

[jellybeany]

205. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

[Adaya]

206. The average Hawaiian eats twelve cans of SPAM a year, followed by the average Alaskan with six cans, and Texans, Alabamians, and Arkansans with three cans a piece.

[PookiePrincess]

I'm way above the average:o

Oh, me, too!

206. The average Hawaiian eats twelve cans of SPAM a year, followed by the average Alaskan with six cans, and Texans, Alabamians, and Arkansans with three cans a piece.

I can assure you this Texan has NEVER eaten Spam!

207. Water expands 9% when it is frozen.

[tgray99]

208. Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.

[Adaya]

209. On average, children between the ages of two and seven color 28 minutes every day.

[sublime311]

210. 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.

[PookiePrincess]

211. In the late 1950's, California surfers invented the skateboard as a means of surfing outside of water.

[Adaya]

212. As the national emblem of New Zealand, pictures of the kiwi are found on money, stamps, and coins.

[PookiePrincess]

213. Minimum wage was 0.25 per hour when it was first enacted in 1938.

[Adaya]

214. Wonder Bread is the best-selling bread in the United States.

[tgray99]

215. Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House.

[Adaya]

216. At the turn of the century, unscrupulous spice dealers would cut shipments of peppercorns with mouse droppings.

[PookiePrincess]

217. According to studies, an average roll of toilet paper lasts about five days in the bathroom.

[mindy75]

218. Popcorn kernels will scorch in a bag of microwave popcorn when they are heated above 210° Celsius.

[PookiePrincess]

219. The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

[Adaya]

220. The Tea Council of the United States has designated June "National Ice Tea Month."

[PookiePrincess]

221. Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy.

[Adaya]

222. Instant Quaker Oatmeal is the number-three selling breakfast cereal in America.

[snapdragon]

223.The Blue Whale's whistle is the highest sound made by a living creature.

[PookiePrincess]

224. Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic games while hosting the event.

[Adaya]

225. In 1961, Silly Putty attracted hundreds of Russians to the United States Plastics Expo in Moscow.

[PookiePrincess]

226. Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

[Adaya]

227. Oral-B Toothbrushes are used by more dentists and hygienists worldwide than any other toothbrushes.

[PookiePrincess]

228. In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.

[Adaya]

229. The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols.

[tgray99]

230. Iguanas can hold their breath for up to 30 minutes underwater.

[Adaya]

231. The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

[LaughAtlantis]

232. The animal responsible for the most human deaths throughout history is the mosquito.

[Sazoo]

233. 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

[tgray99]

234. JELL-O was declared The "Official State Snack" of Utah in January 2001.

[LaughAtlantis]

235. Marshmallow Fluff was invented in Somerville, Massachusetts, and was originally only sold door-to-door.

[PookiePrincess]

236. The moon does not rotate, so we always see the same side from Earth.

[Adaya]

237. For every real Christmas tree harvested, 2 to 3 seedlings are planted in its place.

[tgray99]

236. The moon does not rotate, so we always see the same side from Earth.
Hey! Not a useless fact! ;)

[PookiePrincess]

Hey! Not a useless fact! ;)

I know, but I learned that today while prepping to start teaching my kids moon phases and thought it was a neat bit of info that I didn't know! :)

[PookiePrincess]

238. The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old.

[Adaya]

239. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

[PookiePrincess]

240. An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.

[Adaya]

241. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.

[tgray99]

242. Koalas almost never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.

[Sazoo]

243. Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints (they are similar, but not identical). Their DNA is virtually indistinguishable, however.