Stuck in the house for months doing nothing, everyone is suffering from boredom. And as we all know, boredom is, well it's boring. To divert that bored mind of yours, these facts are just the thing! Though these facts are incredibly pointless, pretty much can come in handy for stress relieving. So, consider these 50 facts to read before you flush. Enjoy!
The Useless Facts:
1. 3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
2. Edgar Allan Poe married his thirteen-year-old cousin.
3. The Super Soaker was designed and invented by a NASA engineer.
4. Salt used to be a currency.
5. Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.
6. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
7. There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.
8. The chicken and the ostrich are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
9. Junk food is as addictive as drugs.
10. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
11. A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.
12. Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
13. Toy Story helped sell the Etch-a-Sketch.
14. 4 out of 5 children recognize the Mcdonald’s logo at 3 years old.
15. One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.
16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
17. Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.
18. No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter “a” in its word form.
19. Chalk is edible.
20. Most pandas in the world are on loan from China.
21. Oreo has made enough cookies to span 5 back and forth trips to the moon.
22. Dr. Seuss invented the word “nerd.”
23. A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel can.
24. Due to a genetic defect, cats can’t taste sweet things.
25. There are around 16 million people alive today that are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.
26. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
27. Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels
28. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a bellybutton.
29. A blob of toothpaste is called a nurdle.
30. If you plug your nose, you can’t tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.
31. Most babies are conceived in December.
32. A group of hippos is called a “bloat.”
33. Most car horns are in the key of F.
34. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
35. Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
36. Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones.
37. Marie Curie’s 100-year-old belongings are still radioactive.
38. There are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.
39. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
40. You spray 2.5 drops of saliva per word.
41. If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called “eigengrau.”
42. A shark is the only animal that can blink both its eyes.
43. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
44. The footprints made on the moon will be there for 100 million years.
45. Scientists have found a mass of water vapor cloud 10 billion light-years away from earth that is 140 trillion times the mass of water on Earth’s surface.
46. In 1993, Rod Stewart hosted the largest free concert.
47. Somali pirates have such a hatred for Western culture that the British Navy uses music from Britney Spears to scare them off.
48. Metallica is the only band to have played on all seven continents.
49. Music has some pretty interesting effects on living things — It makes plants grow faster and cows produce more milk.
50. In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyonce.
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