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!
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.
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
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.
Barbara Millicent Roberts. ? interesting..
2 years on the phone ? i think ana akthar.. ;p im always on the phone !!
yazeez where do u come up with these things??!!!
hahaha! Nebraska!
I’m down with Iceland!!
Cesar salad was made Tijuna, Mexico!! …. LOL!!
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
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
Marzouq,
iced cokes all the way!
cp,
eeh ma dashat mo5y hathee, mo mitrag3a!
- 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
- Cool post. Useless stuff are always amusing.
weird facts ..
im bored………
cool entry thing anyway…….