Did ya know?

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries

Totally useless things to know....


Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.

A snail can sleep for three months.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

More useless stuff.....


A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. Yikes!

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

My day wasn't complete until I learned that:

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Hmmmm.... I have raisins and I have soda...be right back!

Yep, they bounce all right.

The hog-nosed skunk can spray up to fifteen feet with incredible accuracy. Its spray not only stinks but also if it hits the eyes, will blind the skunk's target for up to two days.
-Dang! I gotta get me one of them critters.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

More important stuff!

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would
have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.


Hmmmmmm....... I am left handed.

I'm I the only one with a head-full of useless info?


There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. OY!

ewwww...that may just be a little too much information! haha

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.(but we all know it was really flutterbug)

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Hmmmm....

Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. <-----Me, tired from all that yelling.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.

In 1944, Major Clark Gable's army discharge papers were signed by president-to-be Ronald Reagan, then a captain.

The only English word with all the vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."

My head's just full of this garbage......


Victorian women tried to enlarge their breasts by bathing in strawberries.

When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979.

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.

Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-32.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague.

The yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 . . . by a dentist. ( William Semple)

In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man. ( aren't all potatoes ugly?)

The active ingredient in Chinese Bird's nest soup is saliva.

The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue

The average human body contains enough Iron to make a three inch nail

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds ( WOW! longer than me )

(I decided to join in on the fun!)

Did you or didn't you know?

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.