Post your useless facts here!!

[LynneSin]

http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/strange_things.html

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

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Post your useless facts here!!

[highmindedhavi]

1. whole milk butterfat

Avg. 3.5%. I worked at a dairy for 10 years.

[Callmecrazy]

2. You will burn more calories eating celery...

than you will from consuming it. Apples too.

[LynneSin]

4. Wouldn't I have to eat like a ton of Celery to actually lose weight with that diet

Just saying

[Enrique]

3. Stevie Wonder has no sense of smell

[rug]

9. 3 out of 5 ain't bad.

[Bosonic]

5. Apparently 4 million songs have never been listened to on Spotify

http://forgotify.com/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. A horseshoe crab has copper-based blood, which is blue instead of red.

[kwassa]

16. so they are true blue bloods?

and copper is not really a color?

I'm so confused.

[Jenoch]

25. That's why thousands of horseshoe crabs are

gathered each spring and their blood is harvested for pharmaceutical tests.

[elleng]

7. Not REALLY useless: LiberalEsto is home COOKING

for her daughter's wedding, which is Saturday. A big family affair, everyone's contributing.

[kwassa]

17. but did she invite me over?

hmmmph.

[elleng]

19. Me neither, kwassa,

but she (and they) are cooking for 90!!! Let's say a little prayer for her!!!

[kwassa]

21. We are going to a potluck for 90 ...

that is what Thanksgiving is all about in my wife's family.

White potato pie. Yum.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Calvin Coolidge is the only US President

who was ever depicted on a US coin while he was still alive.

1926 US Sesquicentennial half dollar

[Callmecrazy]

10. The dot above the letter "i"...

is called a tittle.
The little thing that hangs in the back of your throat is called the uvula.

[rug]

11. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

[SkatmanRoth]

12. The average life of a taste bud is 10 days

The bad taste in one's mouth from drinking Bud lasts about 10 days also.

[easychoice]

24. no kidding -- yak!

n/t

[BlueJazz]

13. Largest United States Currency ever printed

[kwassa]

18. Gimme some Wilsons!

[Initech]

27. I thought this was the largest currency ever printed:

[BlueJazz]

28. That does look larger...and a whole lot uglier. As far as coins go, this is hard to beat>

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[Art_from_Ark]

31. That has a face value of $50 (assuming it's one ounce)

But if you want a coin with a truly hefty face value, it will be extremely difficult to beat this:

[BlueJazz]

35. Wow! Reminds me of that scene in Crocodile Dundee

"Aye mate..you call THAT a coin ?....Heaas a coin! )

[Reter]

14. The longest period without a federal holiday is President's Day to Memorial Day

A full three and a half months! The shortest is easier. Christmas and New Year's, exactly a week apart.

[First Speaker]

15. The pitcher with the best won-lost record ever against the Yankees is Babe Ruth...

...how's that for a neat irony?

[Broken_Hero]

20. The last line of dialogue

of the Star Trek Original Episodes was Kirk saying "If only"

[kwassa]

22. John Brown's body lies amouldering near the Olympic ski jump.

He and his conspirators are buried at his farm on a hilltop at Lake Placid. The Olympic ski jump is right next to it.

[easychoice]

23. The top speed of a motivated Chicken is

9 m.p.h.
according to Mike Mailway.

[Expat in Korea]

26. Having sore muscles after a hard workout

is not due to a buildup of lactic acid, but to micro-tears in the muscle fibers.












Probably.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

29. Rigor Mortis

commences about three after death, reaches maximum stiffness after 12 hours, and gradually dissipates after approximately 24 hours. It starts at the eyelids, and moves downward through the body like a sheet being pulled from head to toe.

[olddots]

30. do not give prunes to your dog

Then let them sleep on the bed .

[Ron Obvious]

32. The average distance between the earth and the moon is between 225,000 and 250,000 miles.

I've owned two cars that I put more miles on than that.

[sarge43]

33. Only female gryphons have wings. n/t

[UncleYoder]

34. Angle of repose for dry shelled corn is 23 degrees.

[Tom Kitten]

36. Four of the days of the week...

Are named after Norse gods. Tuesday (Tyr), Wednesday (Woden), Thursday (Thor), and Friday (Freya).

The goddess Freya rode in a chariot pulled by two cats.