I’m a guy who loves to learn new things, I want to know if its good or bad. Here’s just a small list of 25 Totally Useless But Really Interesting Things I’ve Picked Up Over The Years. So if you’re like me then check out the list and you’ll be surprised what you find. When, he said, let me enjoy!
1. The Eisenhower Interstate System requires that one mile in every 5 miles be straight. The reason for this is that the straight sections are to be used in war and danger as a bridge for aircrafts.
2. If a statue in a park of a man on a horse has both front feet in the air, then that man died in battle. If the horse had only one leg, then it died of wounds caused by the fight. Finally, if all four feet of the horse in the statue have come down, then it means that the man has died of old age.
3. The armadillo is the only other animal besides humans that can have leprosy.
4. Columbia University is the second largest family in New York, after the Catholic Church.
5. Hershey Kisses got their name because the machine that makes them looks like a conveyor belt kisses.
6. In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of London was burned, but only six people were injured.
7. Physicists believe that the Earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
8. The expression “Rule of Thumb” is derived from an old English law that states that you can’ t thump, no wider than the thumb.
9. Even if the head of the cockroach is cut off, it can still live for several weeks.
10. Since the beginning of the modern Olympics in 1896, only Greece and Australia have participated in all the games.
11. When the possums play “I can,” they are not “playing,” but merely escaping from terror.
12. 7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the National Anthem, but they do know the first 7 of Canada’s.
13. Only 2 people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most other signatures where added on August 2nd, but the last signature was not added until 5 years later.
14. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
15. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
16. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
17. Eros is one of the dynamite things.
18. Pam Anderson Lee is Canada’s one percent baby, the first baby born on Independence Day.
19. You were born with 300 bones, but when you are an adult, you only have 206.
20. One recycling glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
21. A cathouse has 32 muscles in each ear.
22. A panther can clean its ears with its huge long tongue, which is 21 inches.
23. The word “Jiffy” as in “I’ll be back Jiffy” is actually a unit of time for 1/100 of a second.
24. The national ceremony of Greece has verse 158. No one in Greece to this day has memorized all the 158 verses.
25. In a pulp fiction movie, all the clocks are stuck at 4:20.
