Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Useless trivia - fun facts

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit equals minus 40 degrees Celsius.

Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Powdered non-dairy creamer is flammable.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Raindrops are not tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.

Issac Asimov is the only author to have written a book in all 10 Dewey decimal system categories.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle and to trap sediments in the wine.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first powered flight.

The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.

If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A blue whale gains approximately 200 pounds a day for the first seven months of its life.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

All polar bears are left handed.

The human body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels.

1 comment:

TronWife said...

Bill's brother had a girlfriend who was allergic to polar bears.