Useless Facts

[jackrock]

Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.

Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious.

An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet. (<<someone do it!)

Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.

The Average American/Canadian eats about 11.9lbs of cereal per year.

Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.

Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse. Supermarkets report very strong sales of almost anything they stock at the check-out line.

Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.

As much as six percent of the world's population may experience sleep paralysis, the inability to move and speak for several minutes after awakening.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

I'm bored.

[Freebasser]

Adam West molests children.

[jackrock]

The world's largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 Feet(7.3 Meters) tall, is made of sheet metal and could hold 150,000 8 ounce cups of coffee. (skatchewan repsentin' :cool: )

The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.

The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.

[Freebasser]

Male squirrels don't eat nuts - they just put them down their pants to attract females.

[paul jones]

I'm sitting in my underpants

[kleptomaniac]

A theater manager in Seoul, Korea felt that The Sound of Music was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs.


how could they do that?!


dude...i was born there. :eek:

[Freebasser]

At night, your eyeballs sprout arms and legs, get up and dance around on your stomach. This is why you can't see anything at night.

[jackrock]

I knew it!

[TurdBerglar]

my sweat smells like ranch dressing

[Freebasser]

Ranch dressing is manufactured in Springfield, Ma.

[zorra_chiflada]

dinosaurs lived 60 million years ago

[GetYourWarOn]

rhode island is the only state in america that is entirely carpeted.

[GetYourWarOn]

wearing shorts in new hampshire is considered "showing off" and is punishable by a 100 dollar fine.

[jabumbo]

i columbus, oh, it is illega for stores to sell cornflakes on sundays

[Sarky Devotchka]

At night, your eyeballs sprout arms and legs, get up and dance around on your stomach. This is why you can't see anything at night.

ha ha

[Sarky Devotchka]

sometimes pickles taste good, but sometimes they don't.

[jackrock]

very true, same with onions

[jennyb]

The Indian meaning of Canada is "Big Village".

The odds are 889 to 1 against hitting the jackpot on a slot machine.

There are more English speakers in China than in the United States.

[QueenAdrock]

The average person unknowingly eats 1 pound of dirt per year, and 3 spiders in their sleep.

A cockroach can live up to 8 days with its head cut off.

Fingernails only grow when you sleep.

I'm sure I know more useless crap.

[Sarky Devotchka]

I'm not Chinese, but I speak english.

[jackrock]

The Indian meaning of Canada is "Big Village".


actually the word Canada came from the Huron-iriquis (sp?) word Kanata, meaning small villiage

[Sarky Devotchka]

also, I've not eaten a fresh apple in over two years. I've only had a red delicious apple maybe two times in my entire life because they taste horrible and now that I know that it has the same taste as an onion and a potato, my life makes more sense. because I happen to hate all three of those items unless they're fried beyond recognition. interesting.

also, I haven't eaten cereal in probably 3 weeks.

[jennyb]

actually the word Canada came from the Huron-iriquis (sp?) word Kanata, meaning small villiage

Hmmm... it appears as though the facts on these lil cheese bites wrappers are false that I have here in front of me.:confused:

[jackrock]

school > cheese wrappers

[faz]

The average person posts facts on message boards with out even a quick google to check if its real

[jackrock]

fine fine ill tell you all my little secret


. (http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/)

[Chicka B]

7-Up and Peanut Butter was invented in St.Louis, Missouri. Also, St. Louisans consume more barbecue sauce per capita than any other city in America. Represeeeent! :cool: By the way I don't like BBQ sauce or peanut butter. 7-Up's ok I guess, I never drink it though.

[zorra_chiflada]

(!) most guys do not wish their girlfriends were hot like the pussycat dolls.

[zorra_chiflada]

yo mama be a bitch

[GetYourWarOn]

abraham lincoln had a severe oxycontin addiction

[jackrock]

(!) most guys do not wish their girlfriends were hot like the pussycat dolls.
haha

apparently we want them to be like a bottle of heineken?

[zorra_chiflada]

(!) the humpty dance, in fact, is your chance to "do the hump"

[b i o n i c]

yellow snow is probably not lemonade flavored

[CrankItUp!]

A week before Abraham Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland...

a week before John F. Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe. :D

[mikizee]

australia is the world's largest island, and the worlds smallest continent. (and is the only continent that only has 1 country).

so there.

[Tzar]

I really am not one of Randy's aliases. (!)

[Lyman Zerga]

I really am not one of Randy's aliases. (!)

yeah quoting myself is homosexual
but hey! i do it for the fame!

[icy manipulator]

putting shitty vodka thru a water filter a couple of times makes it taste better

[paul jones]

I'm wearing grey socks

[yeahwho]

meh (http://www.mecawi.org/mission%20accomplished.jpg)

[Bob]

haha

apparently we want them to be like a bottle of heineken?

oh man, i hate that commercial. why's it still running?

[jennyb]

school > cheese wrappers

you got a point there jackrock, even though cheese wrappers with misc facts are pretty cool... even if they are full of lies

[beastiegirrl101]

sometimes pickles taste good, but sometimes they don't.

pickles make your vagina smell.

[beastiegirrl101]

That's because you're only suppose to eat them.(lb)

clever boy.

[Bob]

was it a cucumber when it went in?

[beastiegirrl101]

was it a cucumber when it went in?

ya know...beets make your pee red, asparagus makes your pee smell...pickles (when eaten) make your vagina smell...my cousin is a nurse and she gives me fun nursey facts.

Like....your fecal matter is the color it is because of red blood cells. See, wasn't that fun to learn?

[Chicka B]

I eat pickles all the time and my vagina don't smell. :mad:

[beastiegirrl101]

I eat pickles all the time and my vagina don't smell. :mad:

if you can get down that far, Im impressed.

[enree erzweglle]

Papaphobia is an "intense fear or dread of the pope or of the Roman Catholic Church."

[Nuzzolese]

In 1775, onthe same night that Paul Rever made his famous ride to warn the American colonists about the British moving to attack, William Dawes made a ride to warn people along another route...but he wasn't as effective in getting people out of bed.

[b-grrrlie]

When you've eaten sugarpuffs your urine smells like honey.