Animals - Useless facts about, you got it, animals.
A leech has 32 brains - A human has just one.
The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells.
A house fly's feet are 10 million times more sensitive than a human tongue.
A blue whale's tongue is so large, 50 people could stand on it. And it is as heavy as an adult elephant.
The slowest fish is the seahorse which travels at 0.01 mph
The wings of a fly beat 200 times per second.
In one minute, the heart of a giraffe can pump 160 gallons of blood.
Most snakes have six rows of teeth.
In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1,500 eggs.
Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs.
An adult giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
The blue whale calf drinks approximately 130 gallons of milk, each day.
The amount of blood a female mosquito drinks per serving is five millionths of a liter.
Three smells that repel cats are onions, vinegar and oil of rue.
Geek - This is what most people will call you when you tell them these ones.
"Pomology" is the science of growing an apple.
There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.
In the original movie "101 Dalmatians," there are exactly 6,469,952 spots on all 101 Dalmatians.
It is estimated that Pac-Man has been played over 10 billion times by individuals.
In a 5 card poker game, there are 2,598,960 possible hands.
There are five years in a quinquennium.
A backslash "\" is called a "solidus".
A squiggly line "~" is called a "tilde".
An "&" sign is called an "ampersand".
Holiday - Useless facts about Christmas, Halloween etc.
The abbreviation Xmas for the word Christmas is of Greek origin. Since the word for Christ in the greek langauge is Xristos, which starts with the letter "X," they started putting the X in place of Christ and came up with the short form for the word Christmas.
It is estimated that 93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween.
The most popular recipient of Valentine cards are school teachers.
Human Body - Useless Facts about the...well... human body.
Eating dandelions can make you urinate more.
In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
A life span of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.
A person wearing headphones for one hour will increase the bacteria in their ear by 700 times.
Most heart attacks occur between 8 am and 9 am.
1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
People that use mobile phones are 2.5 more times likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain.
People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril.
On average a person passes gas 14 times a day.
The human heart beats roughly 35 million times a year.
On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs.
The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
People - Useless Facts about "famous" people, mainly Hitler...
Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist, but he failed the entrance exam at some art school in Vienna, so instead, he bacame a dictator. - Thanks to Hannah for correcting me on this one.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
Adolf Hitler was also against over-population.
Ellen Macarthur had a total of 891 naps, each one lasting 36 minutes, in 94 days while sailing around the world.
Oscar Wilde and his friends came up the with the word "dude." It came from the words "duds" and "attitude."
Bill Gates' house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.
Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner.
Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $61.
The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and 6 chocolate chip cookies.
Places - Facts about certain countries or towns etc.
Baseballs, footballs, and golfballs travel 10% faster in Denver because of the city's mile high altitude.
You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Caymen Islands called "Hell", they even have a post office. There's also a town in Norway called Hell, it also has a post office.
There's a place in Wales called "Bethlehem", which is used around Christmas so people can send their Christmas Cards from Bethlehem.
In Austrailia, a hurricane is called a willy-willy.
There are no snakes in New Zealand.
Yanks - Useless Facts about our friends across the Atlantic.
It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
In Las Vegas about 100,000 people get married each year.
500 million Twinkies are baked a year!
Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
On average, Americans move to a new place eleven times in their lifetime.
The 3 most common seasonings found in an American home are seasoned salt, chilli powder and cinnamon.
In America, half of the marriages end in divorce.
The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it. (By my maths, that means a lot of doors leading to nowhere.)
1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA.
Every year, Americans eat more than 45 billion sandwiches.
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
Other - Most people don't seem to know what miscellaneous means, so.
Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 people have been injured - More people die from this, than they do from shark attacks.
The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold.
The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest.
The chances of making two holes in one in one round of golf are one in 67 million.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
There are as many molecules in a teaspoon of water, as there are teaspoons of water in the Pacific Ocean.
There are over 50% of people in the world that have never made a telephone call or recieved one.
If you took all the gaps within the atoms of an army tank, it would be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, though would still weigh the same as it did before.
The normal lightbulb flashes about 60 times a second, though the human eye doesn't notice because it's only capable of something flashing 15 times a second, because of this, it's also possible to take a picture of a television screen and only half the image to be on.
Over 50 million "Mr. Potato Head"s have been sold since they came out in 1952.
The fear of clowns is called coulrophobia.
Cadburys use 60,000 tonnes of cocoa each year in just the UK.
The world's most consumed fruit is the mango.
Paul Hunn holds the record for loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels loud, which is as loud as a chainsaw.
More than 260,000 people have been killed by volcanic activity since 1700 AD.
The country with the highest consumption of sweets/chocolate at 29.5 pounds per person is Denmark.
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987.
The average person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania. And one in 3 people pick their nose more than 5 times a day!
In 1985, the largest ice cream sundae was made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream and 7000 pounds of toppings. This was made in Anaheim, California and reached a height of twelve feet.
The longest hiccups on record was by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987.
Neptune is the only planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics.
The first meal that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate when they landed on the moon was roasted turkey in foil food packets.
One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.
In a pack of Skittles candy, there is an equal 20% distribution of each flavour.
To make an espresso, approximately 42 coffee beans are needed.
If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
The world record for the number of body piercings on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
The smallest book in the world is "Chekhov's Chameleon," which measures 0.9 by 0.9 millimeters. The book has 30 pages and three colour illustrations and is not much larger than a grain of salt.
The world record for finishing the Rubik's cube is 16.5 seconds.
Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer.
Thanks to Steve Wright, Gauher Chaudhry, D. Gravelle and natural knowledge.
