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Useless Facts Part.3
Jan 18th
Useless facts Part.3
• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven! (7) times.
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven! (7) times.
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• • Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley”s gum.
• The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.(Since Venus is normally associated with women what does this tell you!)
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first “Marlboro Man.”
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
• A duck”s quack doesn”t echo, and no one knows why.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.” The second ? William Jefferson Clinton (Please don”t tell me you”re SURPRISED!?!!)
• And the best for last….. Turtles can breathe through their butts.(I know some people like that; don”t YOU?)
• The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.(Since Venus is normally associated with women what does this tell you!)
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Useless Facts Part.2
Jan 18th
Useless Facts Part 2
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it)
• If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.(Now that”s more like it!)
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.(O.M.G.!)
• A pig”s orgasm lasts 30 minutes.(In my next life, I want to be a pig)
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.(Creepy.)(I”m still not over the pig.)
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.(Don”t try this at home, maybe at work)
• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male”s head off.(“Honey, I”m home. What the…?!”)
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It”s like a human jumping the length of a football field.(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond ? )
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.(I still want to be a pig in my next life…quality over quantity)
• Butterflies taste with their feet.(Something I always wanted to know.)
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(Hmmmmmm……)
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.(If you”re ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.(okay, so that would be a good thing)
• A cat”s urine glows under a black light.(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
• An ostrich”s eye is bigger than its brain.( I know some people like that.)
• Starfish have no brains (I know some people like that too.)
• Polar bears are left-handed.(If they switch, they”ll live a lot longer)
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.(What about that pig??)

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