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This page is dedicated to the truly useless facts. The ones that would not fit anywhere else. Take a look around but be warned, you won't learn anything useful. -Charlie Brown's father was a barber. -Parker Brothers prints roughly 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money each year. -On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on each roll. -The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico. -Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years. -On land fired usually move quicker uphill than downhill. -In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty. -American car horns beep to the tone of F. -1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on T.V. -More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby. -If you lined up all the slinkys ever made in a row they could wrap around the Earth 126 times. -In medieval Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands. -Technically speaking, a female "dude" is known as a "dudine." -Belgians have tried to deliver mail using cats. It didn't work. -In ancient Egypt, pillows were made of stone. -In the middle ages chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac. -Ancient Rome had a rent-a-chariot business. -In snow skiing, most men fall on their faces while most women fall on their behinds. -Ropesville, Lariat, and Loop are all towns in Texas. -The average cat has 24 whiskers. -Fort Worth Texas was never a fort. -There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C. -The Oval Office is only 22 feet long. -When astronomer Tycho Brahe lost the tip of his nose in a duel he replaced it with a gold one. -The fish reel was invented around 300 A.D. -Grocery shoppers spend an average of 8 minutes waiting in line at the supermarket. -The average cost of a movie ticket in 1940 was 24 cents. -If you are standing on a mountain top and the conditions are just right you can see a lit match from 50 miles away. -There are 68,000 miles of phone line in the Pentagon. -When the golf ball was introduced in 1848, it was called a "gutta-percha." -The average car in Japan is driven 4,400 miles per year, in the U.S. its 9,500 miles per year. -The gnomon is the thing that casts the shadow on a sundial. -The oldest person to ever be issued a driver's license in the U.S. was 109. -The Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh about 100 pounds apiece. -A rouleau is another name of coins wrapped in a roll of paper. -A single pair of Elvis' underpants has an estimated value of $1,300. -In the 13th century, Europeans baptized children with beer. -The typewriter was invented before the fountain pen. -Before Prohibition, the most common form of drinking beer at home was drinking it out of a bucket filled at a local pub or brewery. -The U.S. has never lost a war in which mules were used. -Louis XIV owned 413 beds. -If you were to count off 1 billion seconds it would take you 31.7 years. -The Pentagon spent $50 million on Viagra for American troops and retirees in 1999. -Each year, Americans use enough foam peanuts to fill ten 85-story buildings. -The parents of the groom pay for the weddings in Thailand. -Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work. -The London Zoo employees an "entertainment director" for the animals. -Blue neckties sell best, red ones sell second best. -Top 4 high school hazing sports: swimming, diving, soccer, lacrosse. -It is said the average person speaks only 10 minutes a day. -The U.S. Postal Service owns 176,000 cars and trucks, the largest civilian vehicle fleet on earth. -It is legal for the dead to vote if they die after they mail out their absentee ballot. -In Venice, Venetian blinds are known as "Persian Blinds." -Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons. -When medieval Europeans burned witches, their families had to pay for the firewood. -The two steps at the top and the two at the bottom are the four most dangerous steps in a stair case. -French and African marigolds both come from North America. -India has an estimated 550 million voters. -It is illegal to water a garden in the rain in Montreal Canada. -Minnesota has 99 lakes named mud lake. -Adolph Hitler had his own private 15 car train named Amerika. -You can loose your driver's license in Athens, Greece for being "poorly dressed" or "unbathed." -Adults have, on average, 2 gallons of air in the space between their skin and their cloths. -An exocannibal is a cannibal that eats only enemies and an indocannibal eats only friends. -Al Capone's older brother Vince was a policeman in Nebraska. -When the ancient Greeks played cards, aces were known as "dogs." -The most used expression of any language is "OK." -The average computer worker types 90,000 keystrokes in an 8-hour work shift. -About 21,000 commercial airline flights are scheduled daily in the U.S. with only about 5,000 planes available to fly them. -When Shakespeare moved to his new home, he named it "New Home". -There is no ice covering Iceland. -The electric chair was invented by a dentist. -Oregon has the most ghost towns of any other state. -Wyoming Valley is so difficult to find because it is in Pennsylvania. -This year, Harvard University will deny admission to an estimated 1,600 High School valedictorians. -The sun is visible 24 hours a day during the summer months in Reykjavik, Iceland. -The busiest stretch of highway in the U.S. is New York's George Washington Bridge. -The first golf rule booklet was published in Scotland in 1754. -The highest denomination ever minted by the U.S. Treasury was the $100,000 bill, the lowest was the 5 cent bill. -Quotation marks have only been around for about 300 years, they're the youngest punctuation marks in the English language. -India imported ice harvested from ponds in the U.S. in the 19th century. -Warsaw is the city with the largest Polish population on earth, Chicago has the second largest. -In the 1820's, a temperance movement tried to ban coffee and nearly succeeded. -In 1912, the Archbishop of Paris declared dancing the tango a sin. -Another word for volleyball is minonette. -There is 118 groves etched into U.S. dimes, 119 in quarters. Verified -In the 1500's England's Queen Elizabeth I outlawed wife beating after 10 p.m. -Freud charged the equivalent of $8.10 per hour for his therapy lessons. -Christopher Columbus's fee for "discovering" America was about $300. -A person sneezing was the first thing Thomas Edison filmed with his movie camera. -A champagne cork can travel as fast as 100 mph when it is popped. -The "five golden rings" in the Twelve Days of Christmas weren't originally rings, they were ringed necked pheasants. -Elvis was nearsighted and owned $60,000 worth of prescription sunglasses when he died. -It isn't a "big band" unless it has 14 different instruments. -The most popular T.V. show in Venezuela is the "Miss Venezuela Pageant." -None of the characters in Shakespeare's plays smoke. -If you refrigerate your rubber bands, they last longer. -Police are sometimes called the "fuzz" because London police used to wear fuzzy helmets. -There are more than 5,500 islands in the British Isles. -The oldest vehicle in human history is a floating log. -Saunas outnumber cars in Finland. -Oklahoma is the U.S. state with the highest population of Native Americans. It has no Indian Reservations. -If an entire family is overweight, the odds are the dog is too. -A gozzard is a person who owns geese. -Plants can suffer from jet lag. -Spains Queen Isabella bathed only twice in her entire lifetime. -The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary. |

