1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down c
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12. nothing rhymes with the word Orange
12a. "Door Hinge" is a close rhyme and has been used for that purpose to win a bet.
13. Elephants gestate for ~24 months
75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward). that is amazing. i read through all of them. hahah.
13.only 2 words in the alphabet have all vowels in correct order
facetious
abstentious
So it's reading or typing thats a waste of time.
what r the other 309??????
anyways. they aren't useless. you never know when u will be on jeopardy and it ask what the dot over and i is called! =)
14. im a winner