Useless Facts

[Titsy]

Useless Facts

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .

10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

13. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

[Roadkill]

Yep.  Useless.  

[EDGE]

but interesting none the less....

[Titsy]

Quoting: EDGE

but interesting none the less....

That's what I thought...

[FUBAR]

Quoting: Titsy

18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

LOL  Free Flying Ivory!

[ianjpage]

hmm very usless but interesting lol

[Pod]

Quoting: Titsy

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

I knew that one.

Quoting: Titsy

11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

But this one is rubbish. I can type any length word with my left hand.
Typing with the left side of the keyboard is entirely different, and would depend on the layout too.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Pod

Typing with the left side of the keyboard is entirely different, and would depend on the layout too.

It's all about your "home keys".

[55starchief]

Quoting: Pod

Quoting: Titsy
2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."


I knew that one.

Quoting: Titsy
11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.


But this one is rubbish. I can type any length word with my left hand.
Typing with the left side of the keyboard is entirely different, and would depend on the layout too.

G33K

[Incursus]

Quoting: Pod

But this one is rubbish. I can type any length word with my left hand.

An expert at one handed typing huh?