Sunday, January 31, 2010

Useless, yet slightly intresting facts


You can lead a cow up stairs but not down.

The house fly hums at the middle octave F key.
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu, a hill in New Zealand.
Tigers have striped skin, not striped fur.

If you yell for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Banging your head against a wall in one hour will burn 150 hours.

There are more chickens than people in the world.


This one's for you Mrs. Cross.- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.

There are 336 dimples on a golf ball.

The name, Wendy, was made up for Peter Pan the book. There was never another Wendy on record before.

The phrase "rule of thumb" comes from an old English law stating that a man cannot beat his wife with anything wider than his thumb.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Vampire bats turn right--that's how you tell the difference... jk.

Thank you to the Freeman Institute for these useless facts.

Find more useless facts at www.freemaninstute.com/uselessFacts.htm

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