Monday, December 24, 2007

Some Useless Facts...

  • Starfish have no brain.
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  • Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
  • Bulls are color blind.
  • A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
  • "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
  • Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
  • Lip stick contains fish scales.
  • The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
  • The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
  • Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
  • Women blink twice as many times as men do.
  • The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
  • A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
  • The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
  • Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
  • The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
  • Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
  • The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
  • Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
  • The billionth digit in Pi is 9.