Useless Facts

- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

- In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile
  services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not
  re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has
  channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

- The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
  shutter on backwards.

- The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms that are
  antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

- The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
  letter is uncopyrightable.

- Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order,
  as does arsenious, meaning, "containing arsenic."

- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian
  coat of arms for that reason.

- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
  ten.

- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."

- Camel's milk does not curdle.

- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

- Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
  elephants.

- The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

- All porcupines float in water.

- Did you know that there are coffee-flavored PEZ?

- Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while
  he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."

- If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire Town
  Hall, you are entitled to receive $0.10 from the town.

- The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
  yore when the engines were pulled by horses.  The horses were stabled
  on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight
  staircases.

- Non-dairy creamer is flammable. - EEEEWWWW!!!!

- The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie" (thus the
  name of the Don McLean song).

- The only nation whose name begins with an "A," but doesn't end in an
  "A," is Afghanistan.

- Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby
  born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.

- The abbreviation for 1 pound (lb.) comes from the astrological sign Libra,
 meaning balance?

 - If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87
feet?

 - 1/100th of a second is called a "jiffy?"

 - There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a
Rubik's Cube?

 - The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.  Its name was Fred.

 - America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

 - A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.

 - Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine.  His parents thought he
 might be retarded.

 - In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of
toast.

 - In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.

 - An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

 - The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

 - There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

 - Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

 - The condom -- made originally of linen -- was invented in the early 1500s.

 - The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000
BC

 - The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

 - The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

 - Every person has a unique tongue print.

 - Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

 - Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

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

 - About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

 - Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

 - Most lipstick contains fish scales.

 - Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

 - The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon,
 and Elvis Presley.

 - 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless
existential hell."

 - Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

 - "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
(Small price to pay when "Tonto" means "stupid" in Spanish.)