Useless Info Part II

109 more interesting but useless facts. Part 3 tomorrow.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio’s newscast about the wreck.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Goethe couldn’t stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.

If you bring a raccoon’s head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones – Bhutan.

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

In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.

In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” were considered a dirty word.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman somewhere.

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

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

In the movie “Casablanca,” Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.”

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.

It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.

It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don’t try this at home!)

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

“Kemo Sabe” means “soggy shrub” in Navajo.

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom.”

Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: “L.A.”

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

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

Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.

Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.

Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.

Mosquitoes have teeth.

Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1” encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930’s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

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

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

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

Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.

Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.

Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.

Some toothpaste’s contain antifreeze.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

“Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

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