40 Interesting Facts You Will Never Need to Know
by Darlene McFarlane on Aug 23, 2007 with 35 Comments
Have you ever heard or read something new and thought, how interesting, but the fact that you now know this will not make you any smarter than you were before you found out?
I have found 40 of those useless but interesting facts for you to do absolutely nothing with:
- Crocodiles can’t stick out their tongues.
- One of the ingredients in dynamite is peanuts.
- A baby is born with 300 bones while an adult has only 206.
- A cockroach can live about 9 days without it’s head.
- An elastic band will last longer if it is refrigerated.
- Elephants are the only animal in the world who can’t jump.
- The full name for Los Angeles is, “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncul.
- The chicken is the closest relative to the T Rex.
- One ounce of chocolate contains 6 mg of caffeine.
- Each year Americans eat about 4 pounds of preservatives, artificial flavor, and color.
- A castrated rooster is called a Capon.
- A Polecat is a European weasel.
- Camel’s milk will never curdle.
- If you put a notch in a tree trunk, it will stay the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
- The first local anesthetic ever used was Cocaine.
- The term Soldier’s Disease is another name for morphine addiction. The name came from the Civil War when more than 400,000 soldiers were treated for pain from injuries sustained during battle.
- The first condom was invented in the 1500’s and was made of linen.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Most North American car horns honk in the key of “F.”
- Cough medicine contained Heroine in the late 1800’s.
- 85% of the world’s foliage grows in the ocean.
- There is such a thing as Horseradish ice cream. It is sold in Tokyo Japan.
- Another word for junk food is “Lubberwort.”
- An Albatross can sleep while it is flying.
- Most people are an inch taller at night.
- A chicken egg was once laid containing 9 yolks.
- Ants never sleep.
- Humans shed about 600,000 particles or 150 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
- Your stomach must produce a new layer of mucus every 14 days so it doesn’t digest itself.
- A duck’s quack will not produce an echo.
- Because celery contains negative calories, it actually takes more calories to eat one stalk than the celery contains.
- When exiting a cave, bats always turn left.
- The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
- All electronic speakers are actually microphones.
- Coca Cola is actually green before coloring is added to it.
- It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
- A slug has 4 noses.
- A Giraffe can clean it’s ears with it’s tongue.
- Right handed people live an average of 9 years longer than lefties.
- And last on the list, wasps taste like pine nuts, beetles taste like an apple and best of all… if you run out of bacon for Sunday breakfast you can eat worms from the garden because they taste like bacon.
There you are. Forty fascinating and useless facts. You will never need them, never use them and chances are you will forget you ever knew them in the first place.
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Onflame | Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
Hey cool facts, though I knew most of them.
LB | Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
I am not going to check out number 40 to see if it is true, I’ll take your word for it.
Darlene McFarlane | Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
I was hoping someone would have the courage to try #40 to let me know if the facts are accurate. If you change your mind, let me know, OK?
C A Johnson | Aug 24, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for posting these facts. They were really interesting.
Steve | Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
#30 is false Duck quacks do produce an echo its been tested
Onflame | Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
Hi Darlene,
My name’s got a little size here on gomestic
Darlene McFarlane | Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
Steve, thank you for your comment. I did another check and found that you are right. A duck’s quack does indeed echo however, it is difficult to hear.
Article below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3086890.stm
I love it when I learn something new.
Thank you
Darlene McFarlane | Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
Onflame, I am so glad for you. It just takes a little time go be found.
Beatrice | Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
Oh my God, really, Darlene??? LOL! This list was so funny! and giraffes are so gross! LOL!
*sigh* Great article
Ruby Hawk | Aug 27, 2007 | Reply
Wow! that is a lot of useless information but interesting anyway.
Rker | Aug 29, 2007 | Reply
I DON’T BELIEVE YOU!
lizzie2uk | Sep 3, 2007 | Reply
Number 39 is a bit worrying as I’m a leftie!
Anonymous | Sep 3, 2007 | Reply
Forgot ask you…in number 8, I take it that you refer to TREX the dinosaur, not TREX the pop group!
Gail Nobles | Sep 9, 2007 | Reply
We never think about them much anyway while we go on in life. I still hold my breath when I smell something bad in the bathrooms in public. Great article.
Liane Schmidt | Sep 19, 2007 | Reply
Dear Darlene,*
I LOVE this article – - LOVE it – - it made me laugh and say “whoa” so many times!!!
Best wishes, always.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
angelstar | Sep 23, 2007 | Reply
great!
Richard | Oct 20, 2007 | Reply
Every plant and animal contains calories. It would be more correct to say: “Our bodies use up more calories digesting a stalk of celery than the celery contains. Because of that fact, when adding up your caloric intake for a day, you can consider a stalk of celery to have negative calories.”
Interesting list. I didn’t know I was in the process of producing 150 lbs of skin!
JLC | Apr 30, 2008 | Reply
Lefties in fact do live as long as righties. Here’s a citation:
Percept Mot Skills. 1994 Jun;78(3 Pt 2):1243-7.
agnes01 | May 2, 2008 | Reply
i really like the facts which i mentioned above. I was unaware of many of the facts.Thanx for increasng my knowledge.
duck | May 7, 2008 | Reply
#30 is right.
ducks quack does not produce an echo, its been tested on braniac and on mythbusters!
Duck! | May 7, 2008 | Reply
#41
the biggest number in the world is called a “googolplexian”
its 10 to the power of a “googolplex”
Dan Haugh | Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
Great list! I do have to wonder about #11. When the rooster is castrated ,,, do his screams echo? and … do his screams curdle camel’s milk? .. if they do , a new phrase would be born. Instead of ‘blood curdling’ we could say. “I heard camel’s-milk curdling screams from the hen house.” Just a couple of thoughts to ponder .. or not!
Halle Senater | Oct 1, 2008 | Reply
hi
davo | Oct 14, 2008 | Reply
hey Duck! 100 to the power of a ‘googleplex’ is called a ‘googolplexcian’and that is obviously bigger than a ‘googolplexian’
ANd by the way a great list THANKS
Random Food Eater | Dec 18, 2008 | Reply
YOU LIER!!! I ATE A WORM AND IT TASTED LIKE DIRT!!!
Mother | Dec 18, 2008 | Reply
#25 Random Food Eater. Grow up.
kla(: | Jan 11, 2009 | Reply
wow…amazing..lol(:
ExoticCat | Jan 21, 2009 | Reply
#25 is wrong.
People are approximately an inch taller in the morning not at night. By night, the disks in our spine have been compressed due to dehydration and gravity making us approximately an inch shorter. Once we lay down to sleep the disks have a chance to rehydrate fully making us taller in the morning.
helpful callum | May 12, 2009 | Reply
fact #45 peodiphiles love playgrounds
peodiphile dave | May 12, 2009 | Reply
no we dont? we just like the children
angry mum | May 12, 2009 | Reply
you leaqve little timmy alone!
policeman paul | May 12, 2009 | Reply
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much appreciated
policeman paul
peodiphile dave | May 12, 2009 | Reply
ok!
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Look forward to seeing you
ben | Jun 2, 2009 | Reply
this is an orsom website.
d | Jun 13, 2009 | Reply
Yucks green coca cola!1