Did you know...useless facts/information

Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.


Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."


Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.


A broken clock is right at least twice a day

The longest film ever released was "****" by Andy Warhol in 1967, which lasted 25 hours. After its utter failure, it was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as "The Loves of Ondine."

Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.

 

A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.

Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse. Supermarkets report very strong sales of almost anything they stock at the check-out line.

The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.

Grand Rapids, Michigan is the "SpaghettiOs Capital of the World" because per-capita consumption is highest in that city, per the Franco-American Company. Reportedly, there are more than 1,750 "O's" in a 15-ounce can of SpaghettiOs.

 

..My middle name is Marie.

 

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.

Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.

Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (a variety of the marijuana plant) paper

On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

 

Bill Haley and the Comets, one of rock and roll's pioneer groups actually began their career's as Bill Haley's Saddle Pals - a country music act.

Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr.

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

 

More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

 

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.

Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue.

 

to temporarily revive your ballpoint pen, dip the tip into hot water for a few seconds

 

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." She said "Come on up sometime and see me." Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy," and Cagney never said "You dirty rat..."

Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.

 

- 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

- Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

- The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

- Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

- Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

- Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

- The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

- Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cordscut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

 

If you hold in a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your brain and die. If you sneeze hard enough, you can also break a rib.

 

There is also a Useless Information thread in Old Hippies

http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26846

I will see if I can get it moved and merged with this thread.

 

The Sarawak Chamber in northern Borneo is the largest cave in the world. It is so large that 10 jumbo jets would fit nose to tail inside.

 

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year

 

the first ballpoint pens were made in 1945 and sold for $12

 

if an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out it could hold a basketball................ ouch!

 

the sound made when a duck passes gas is the precise acoustic oppositeof its quack...so if it does both simultaneously theres no audible sound!

 

and.... scuba divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet of below......

i don't have a gas fetish....honest!

 

the male skunk must scratch and lick the female skunk's gentialia before she will allow him to enter.

the erect penis of a blue whale is approx. 9.5 feet long.

 

hahaha... i'm sure glad i'm not a female blue whale!