30 useless facts

Wibbles
Wibbles Community member Posts: 2,043 Trailblazing
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  1. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
  2.  Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
  3. There are 10 times more stars in the night sky than grains of sand in the world’s deserts and beaches.
  4. A piece of paper can be folded no more than 9 times.
  5. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
  6. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
  7. Honey is the only natural food made without destroying any life.
  8. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
  9.  Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
  10.  A chameleon can move its eyes in two different directions at the same time.
  11.  It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  12. Bees have 5 eyes.
  13. Most collect calls are made on father’s day.
  14. The Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  15. Napoleon’s penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000.
  16. The average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles. Which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator.
  17. The thumbnail grows the slowest and the middle nail the fastest, nearly four times faster than toenails.
  18. A pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
  19. The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.
  20. The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
  21. Barbie’s measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.
  22. You spend 92 days of your life on the toilet.
  23. On average, Americans’ favorite smell is banana.
  24. One-quarter of your body’s bones are in your feet.
  25. Americans eat an estimated 13 billion hamburgers each year.
  26. Dexterous comes from the Latin word dexter, meaning “on the right side.” Since most people are right-handed, and therefore do things more easily with their right hand.
  27. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  28. Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  29. Hershey’s makes one million miles of Twizzlers every year.
  30. Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 1,960 Championing
    edited September 14

    A great post, Wibbles! We all need more facts in our lives and less fiction even if these are 'facts' from America haha. About time after so much fake news from over there.

    Dogs also like to eat bananas I'm told 🍌

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community member Posts: 2,043 Trailblazing
    edited September 14

    Here's a few more….

    1. Movie trailers got their name because they were originally shown after the movie.
    2. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
    3. The real name of Monopoly mascot Uncle Pennybags is Milburn Pennybags.
    4. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
    5. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
    6. Oreo has made enough cookies to span five back and forth trips to the moon.
    7. Edgar Allan Poe married his thirteen-year-old cousin.
    8. Salt used to be a currency.
    9. Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
    10. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
    11. Sloths can hold their breath for longer than dolphins.
    12. A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel can.
    13. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
    14. A dragonfly has a lifespan of only 24 hours.
    15. On average, a human being will spend up to two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
    16. The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.
    17. Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
    18. Toy Story helped sell the Etch-a-Sketch.
    19. Four out of five children recognize the Mcdonald’s logo at three years old.
    20. Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004. (They got back together in 2011.)
    21. One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.
    22. It’s impossible to tickle yourself.
    23. Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic.
    24. It’s impossible for you to lick your own elbow.
    25. Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.
    26. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
    27. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. Engineers failed to account for the weight of all the books that it would eventually hold.
    28. Dolphins give each other names.
    29. Frank Sinatra was offered the starring role in Die Hard when he was in his 70s.
    30. One man set a world record by putting on 260 T-shirts at once.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community member Posts: 2,043 Trailblazing

    and more….

    1. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
    2. Women hiccup less than men.
    3. A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.
    4. In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyonce.
    5. Slinkies are 82 feet long.
    6. Most car horns are in the key of F.
    7. Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones.
    8. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends with “mt.”
    9. Jupiter is twice as large as all the other planets combined.
    10. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
    11. The Super Soaker was designed and invented by a NASA engineer.
    12. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
    13. Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.
    14. New Jersey grows two-thirds of the world’s eggplants.
    15. Ravens know when someone is spying on them
    16. There is only one walled city in North America.
    17. The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.
    18. You are 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday.
    19. Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.
    20. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
    21. Space travel makes mice run in loops.
    22. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.
    23. The average American produces 4.5 pounds of trash per day.
    24. Almonds are members of the peach family.
    25. The footprints made on the moon will be there for 100 million years.
    26. A Greek-Canadian man invented the “Hawaiian” pizza.
    27. Antarctica is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.
    28. The largest scrambled eggs ever made weighed nearly 3.5 tons.
    29. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
    30. Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes.

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 1,960 Championing
    edited September 14

    On average, a human being will spend up to two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

    I'm not sure I believe this one. Much, much longer than two weeks of kissing, surely? Months and months I say 😍

    Queen Elizabeth, a trained mechanic? I know she did a bit for the war effort but..

    A 30-minute orgasm 😂 that'll be the boar not the sow of course!

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 1,960 Championing

    Wibbles, do you believe the (up to) two-week kissing factoid?

    That equates to only 28 nights of kissing in a person's lifetime..

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 7,182 Online Community Coordinator

    I think it means constantly kissing, so maybe that's right? I'm definitely not the right person for that bit of information. 😆

    Though I reckon I could eat a few miles of those Twizzlers, they're one of my favorite snacks. 😋

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 1,960 Championing
    edited September 14

    Yes but it doesn't sound enough 😁 ok maybe it's just me then 😂

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community member Posts: 2,043 Trailblazing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/909185#Comment_909185

    The average person includes those who never kiss, so yes the average looks about right

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 1,960 Championing

    I suppose you're right.

    Thanks for the memory 😆

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 1,960 Championing

    🧐
    At the age of 18, Princess Elizabeth became a junior officer, in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), where she eventually became a qualified truck driver and mechanic

    She was known as truck mechanic No. 230873 in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service.

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,928 Championing

    Giraffes are 30 times more likely to be hit by lightening then people

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