Monday, December 17, 2012

More Useless Facts

  • In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

  • Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  • Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

  • The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

  • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

  • One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

  • Currently one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

  • The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

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

  • If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

  • Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  • The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.

  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.




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