Friday, June 8, 2007

Useless Facts

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.....an ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.....the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.....elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.....40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year....."underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"...there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.....the higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.....there is a city named Rome on every continent.....111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.....more women become pregnant in December than in any other month.....the first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.....China has more English speakers than the US.....the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.....Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.....no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.....Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.....a rat can last longer without water than a camel.....by raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink in quicksand.....there are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.....moths that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th".....you burn more calories sleeping than watching tv.....the name of all the continents end with the same letter they start with.....the most common name in the world is "Mohammed".....at 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.....5% of Americans let their dishes pile up for a couple of days before washing them.....there are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five card poker game....a cubic mile of fog is made up of less than one gallon of water.....a toothpick is the object most often chocked on by Americans.

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