Useless
But Interesting Facts
* The
Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be
straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
* The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the
only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car
driving under an airplane.
* Cats
have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
* Our eyes
are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
* David
Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of
Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James
Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
* Many
hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
* In every
episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
* Barbie's
measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
* February
1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
* Montpelier, Vermont is the
only U.S. state
capital without a McDonalds.
* The
Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has
twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the
state of Virginia still had
segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
* No word
in the English language rhymes with month.
* The
cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.
* There
are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
* Isaac
Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
* Columbia University is the
second largest landowner in New York
City, after the Catholic Church.
* Cat's
urine glows under a black light.
* Back in
the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred
percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
* The
first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
* Leonardo
Da Vinci invented the scissors.
* It takes
about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean
the pot.
* In the
last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* Babies
are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years
of age.
* The
highest point in Pennsylvania is lower
than the lowest point in Colorado.
* Nutmeg
is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
* If you
have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also
have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for
a dollar.
* The most
common name in the world is Mohammed.
* Michael
Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers
in Malaysia combined.
* No NFL
team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl
* The
first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
* In the
great fire of London in 1666
half of London was burnt
down but only 6 people were injured
* Lincoln Logs were
invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
* One of
the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s
lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it
as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or
caffeine.
* The only
two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA,
NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star
Game.
* Only one
person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Some
fun rules
1. I can
please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking
good either.
2. I love
deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying
by.
3. Am I
getting smart with you? How would you know?
4. I'd
explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
5. Someday
we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
6. There
are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable
application of high explosives.
7. Tell me
what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
8. Accept
that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
9. Needing
someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need
him, chances are you won't need him again.
10. I
don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
11. Last
night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself,
"Where the heck is the ceiling?!"
12. My
Reality Check bounced.
13. On the
keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
14. I
don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier.
15. You're
slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.
16. Do not
meddle in the affairs of dragons, 'cuz, like, you are crunchy and taste good
with ketchup.
17.
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
And,
18. Never
argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with
experience.
