Useless facts... !!! ( Archived) (48)

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard

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Coca-cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000

City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4

Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44%

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7

Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%

Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%

City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%

Percentage of American men who say they're happier after their divorce or separation: 58%

Percentage of American women who say they are happier: 85%

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

i think i got that phobia after reading the name of it

Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3

Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3

Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7%

Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%

Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.

Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan

Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt

Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage

Only food that does not spoil: honey (Ed. note -- also only food that does not need to be digested; it's already been digested in the body of the bee)

Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)

Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica

Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Eskimos never gamble.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.

They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.

Cream does not weigh as much as milk.

Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.

Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

Heinz Ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

Men get hiccups more often than woman.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.