Useless facts
- The average person produces about 12,000 gallons of urine over the course of their
lifetime.
- Bill Gates is a Harvard University dropout.
- Anthropologists know of no human society whose children do not play hide and
seek.
- Nylon was first produced in 1938. It was used in making toothbrush bristles.
- Thomas Jefferson was the first person to import vanilla to the United States.
- Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
- "Polyiterophilia" is the inability to have an orgasm with one partner
unless first engaging in sex acts with many others.
- On a per capita basis, plastic surgery is more popular in Brazil than in any
other country.
- One million U.S. one-dollar bills weigh exactly one ton.
- During the 1905 football season, 18 men were killed in college games in the
United States and 159 were permanently injured.
- Human adults breathe about 23,000 times a day.
- At one time in Cambodia, it was illegal to insult a rice plant.
- The word "bishop" once meant "to kill by drowning."
- The U.S. produces 19 percent of the world's trash.
- A cat can jump five times as high as it is tall.
- Nat King Cole was the first African-American with his own network radio show.
- India is the world's largest democracy with 620 million voters.
- Chronomentrophobia is a fear of clocks.
- The most northerly town in England is called Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Thirty percent of Americans say they base how much they eat on how much they're
served rather than how hungry they are.
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