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Totally Useless Trivia
These are pretty amazing facts!
More added each week!
* The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue
* A quarter has 119 grooves around the edges
* Cranberry is the only flavour of Jello that is made from real fruit, not artificial flavoring
* Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991
* Coca Cola contains neither Coca nor Cola
* A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
* A housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F
* The average human body contains enough Iron to make a three inch nail
* The architech that designed the Glen Abbey, one of Canada's most famous golf courses, was Jack Nicklaus
* The number of Twinkies that Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewie ate in his lifetime was 40,177
* Before rice, the largest export of South Carolina, U.S., during the 18th century was deer skins
*Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Slaghoople and Betty Rubble's was McBicker
*59 tons of the berlin wall have been shiped to the U.S. since November 1989 by a company from St. Louis
*No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
*A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
*Women's hearts generally beat faster than mens
*The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts every day
*Somewhere near 33 new consumer products are introduced every day. 13 of them are toys
*The only fifteen letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter would be uncopyrightable
*Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus
*Only one person in two million will live to be 116 or older
*A duck's quack does not echo
*A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 miles per hour
*A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
*A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip
*A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day
*According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week
*After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear to be pink in color
*An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime
*By age 60, most people have lost half of their taste buds
*Fingernails grow faster than toenails
*The human body transmits nerve impulses at about 90 meters a second
*In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, childern were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet
*An eighteenth century woman used only lard to "wash" her face and hands and lived to the age of 116
*If 80% of the human liver was removed, it could still function and would eventually restore itself to its original size
*Nearly a quarter of all human bones are found in the feet
*Human adults breath about 23000 times a day
*The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach is strong enough to disolve a nail
*The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9000 lead pencils
*The oldest dog that has been reliably documented was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey. He was put to sleep at the age of 29 years and 5 months!
*The smallest dog in history was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn, England. At two years of age and fully grown this little dude was an incredible 2.5 inches tall by 3.75 inches long! He weighed only 4 ounches!He was approximately the size of a matchbox
*There are 14 phalanges (finger bones) in the human hand
*The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle
*The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238 pounds
*The oldest cow ever recorded was a Dremon named "Big Bertha" that died 3 months shy of her 49th birthday on New Years Eve, 1993. (She died of natural causes that had nothing to do with partying on New Years if that is what your thinking!)
*A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposite team to reach first base by any means
*By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two and a half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute)
*The tallest as well as the heaviest horse ever recorded was a Shire gelding named "Sampson." He measured 21.2 and one half hands (7 feet 2.5 inches) and weighed 3,360 pounds!
*The average human body contains enough: iron to make a three inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 8 match heads, and water to fill a ten gallon tank
Source: Tiny Times Publications
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