September 9, 2009

16 useless facts you don't need to know but I'm telling you anyway

Warning! Believe these at your own discretion.


1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
3. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
4. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
5. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves.

6. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
7. Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is German for badgers.
8. Laser is actually an acronym for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation."
9. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
10. The king of hearts on playing cards is the only king without a moustache.
11. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
13. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
14. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
15. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
16. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

4 comments:

Becka said...

That's amazing! I think you are about as fast as Bruce Lee was before they slowed the tapes, you could totally take him!

Justin said...

You are the List Master! I never noticed the moustacheless King of Hearts but I did recently read that the four kings represented actual kings and the Hearts Monarch was supposedly Charlemagne, the King of France. Go figure... a girly Frenchman. :) (Spades=David, King of Israel; Clubs=Alexander the Great; and Diamonds=Julius Caesar... in case anyone was wondering)

Jeremy said...

Where the heck were you when I was making this list? I could have used all that info!

Brent Hope said...

No kidding (about the ostriches)?! Interesting.

One more for your list:

-Death is still the number one killer in the United States today.

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