15 Interesting Yet Useless Facts
KrunchyTahko
Published
07/05/2015
A few more random useless facts to bug your buddies with.
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1.
5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992. -
2.
Sex burns 360 calories per hour. -
3.
Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime; Red Vineyard at Arles (The Vigne Rouge). -
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In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares. -
5.
You spend 7 years of your life in the bathroom. -
6.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) -
7.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women -
8.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona. -
9.
When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish, which walks backwards." This definition was sent with a number of others to the naturalist Cuvier for his approval. The scientist wrote back, "Your definition, gentlemen, would be perfect, only for three exceptions. The crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backwards." -
10.
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato and shoe hidden in the asteroid field. -
11.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes. -
12.
Octothorp: Another name for the pound sign. -
13.
60% of all people using the Internet, use it for pornography. -
14.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down. -
15.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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