More Useless Facts

  • Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
  • The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  • 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.
  • Reindeer like to eat bananas.
  • More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
  • Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.
  • In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
  • Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920’s.
  • If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  • It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona. Do people hunt camels in the first place?
  • In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid. His parents must have been so proud when he got that job…
  • The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum. 3ad ma ligaw ella a9`3ar shay yinba3! Do they even have bar codes on gum now!?
  • In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.
  • 1 in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds restaurant. Says a lot….
  • Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day, making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the adult.
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men. EEEEE ma3roof laish
  • The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. And I thought cause they used 57 ingredients or something.
  • If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.
  • Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Ma3thooreen, see above…
  • Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions. Like?
  • The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
  • Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
  • Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. My kind of people!

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    1. Gravatar Icon 1 NoNoWa Apr 11th, 2007 at 11:55 am

      Reindeer eat bananas??? How wud someone even know that?
      Well did u know that bananas are considered an herb, and not a fruit?? Yeah freaky huh? Sometimes things are just not what they seem!! :)
      Pretty cool facts though. I just cant imagine the one about the driving at night in Nebraska? U wud have never have gotten anywhere! Crazy rednecks—ummm ok wait a minute i forgot, I am from the South too. *inserting foot into mouth*
      Nice idea for a post.

    2. Gravatar Icon 2 Peony Apr 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

      Barbara Millicent Roberts. ? interesting..

      2 years on the phone ? i think ana akthar.. ;p im always on the phone !!

    3. Gravatar Icon 3 eshda3wa Apr 11th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

      yazeez where do u come up with these things??!!!

    4. Gravatar Icon 4 Marzouq Apr 11th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

      hahaha! Nebraska!

      I’m down with Iceland!!

    5. Gravatar Icon 5 cixousianpanic Apr 11th, 2007 at 11:34 pm

      Cesar salad was made Tijuna, Mexico!! …. LOL!! :D

    6. Gravatar Icon 6 Yazeed Apr 12th, 2007 at 1:55 am

      NoNoWa,
      welcome to the blog, glad u enjoyed the post, check the previous posts of the similar catergory
      http://yazeez.com/category/useless-facts/

      Peony,
      i think i have done 2 years already :P

      eshda3wa,
      from websites that list these things, for a “doctor” i thought u’d be smarter
      oh and the only reason i didnt post the sources, is cuz i havent gone through all the facts, so there are more posts to come if they are interesting enough to post :P

      Marzouq,
      iced cokes all the way!

      cp,
      eeh ma dashat mo5y hathee, mo mitrag3a!

    7. Gravatar Icon 7 kinano Apr 12th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

      - aglets you say?! hmmmm… spell checker does not recognize it. Interesting!

      - I would really love to see how a scorpion goes mad. looooool

      - What bizzare positions?! Dig deeper dude :P

      - Cool post. Useless stuff are always amusing.

    8. Gravatar Icon 8 Financy Apr 13th, 2007 at 2:19 am

      weird facts ..

    9. Gravatar Icon 9 what are you looking at? Oct 14th, 2007 at 5:40 am

      im bored………
      cool entry thing anyway……. :neutral:

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