useless facts for you to know
I like useless facts and you should too.
+- Music
- Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.
- Britney Spears' middle name is Jean.
- American electric razors hum in the key of B flat. Razors in England, however, buzz in the key of G.
- In the eighth grade, Elvis Presley got a "C" grade in music.
- Stevie Nicks does most of her songwriting in the bathroom.
- Elvis Presley's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."
+- Politics
- John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
- Actor Tom Hanks is a descendant of Abraham Lincoln.
- Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhea.
- President Lyndon Johnson nicknamed his penis "Jumbo."
- President Lyndon Johnson had an aunt named Frank.
- Every U.S. President that has had a beard has been Republican.
- At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.
+- Language
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange, purple, or silver, or month.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- In Latin, the word "disco" means "I learn."
- The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is "Quartzy."
- Kielbasa is the Polish word for sausage. So, kielbasa sausage literally means "sausage sausage."
- Ukulele means "jumping flea" in Hawaiian.
- The word "bozo" derives from the French slang term bouseaux (meaning "hick or yokel"). However, bouseaux literally means "cow turds."
- In the 1940s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear Americans would pronounce it "bitch."
- Colgate faced a an obstacle marketing its toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countriesâ€$(DCo(Blgate translates as "go hang yourself."
- Taco Bell changed the Chilito's name to the Chili Cheese Burrito, only after discovering that "chilito" was a derogatory slang term in Spanish that meant "small penis."
- The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish word "aguacate," which in turn is derived from the Aztec word "ahuacatl" which meant testicle.
- "Uromancy" is the practice of predicting the future by studying urine.
- The only English word that contains a triple letter is "goddessship."
- Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
+- Transportation
- A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
+- Stupid People
- A lot of photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
- About 100 people a year choke to death on ballpoint pens.
- Five hundred Americans are injured in their bathtubs each day.
- Every year, about 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats.
+- The Human Body
- A person suffering from polythelia has 3 nipples.
- The average American male has seven erections per day.
- The typical person goes to the bathroom six times a day.
- The average person produces about 12,000 gallons of urine over the course of their lifetime.
- The smell of Crayola crayons has been proven to lower blood pressure.
- The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve fibers, twice as many as the penis.
+- Science and Technology
- Scientists at Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions where traced to a microwave oven in the building.
- Thirty-four percent of Microsoft employees are Indian.
- There is a mineral called cummingtonite.
+- Sports
- It's estimated that 40 percent of players in the NBA have a criminal record. [ITS BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA. I swear I am not rascist.]
- All cheerleaders were male in 1898. Now, about three percent are.
- Among other things, ninjas were trained to tell what time it was by looking into a cat's eye.
+- Animals
- Erect giraffe penises are about four feet long.
- Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
- The size of a mosquito penis is 1/100th of an inch.
- A dragonfly's penis has a shovel on the end that scoops out a rival male's semen.
- Most turkeys and giraffes are bisexual.
- Liquefied bubble gum is an effective insecticide. Bugs chew on it and their jaws stick together and they starve to death.
- The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.
- There is a species of moth that lives entirely on cow tears.
+- TV and Movies
- Before Popeye, Olive Oyl had a boyfriend named Ham Gravy.
- There have been 47 Charlie Chan movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese.
- Reportedly, Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.
- Oprah Winfreyâ€$(1s (Bfirst name was the result of a typo. Her parents wanted to use the biblical name Orpah, but the midwife couldn't spell, so it became Oprah.
- The first episode of Joanie Loves Chachi was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
- In her films, Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
+- People
- Seventy-five percent of Japanese women own vibrators. The global average is 47 percent.
- Sir Isaac Newton died a virgin.
- The Roman emperor Nero would dress up young boys in his dead wife's clothes and make love to them.
- If an Amish man has a beard, it means he's married.
- Albert Einstein didnâ€$(1t (Blike to wear socks.
- When men of the Walibri tribe of central Australia greet each other, they shake penises instead of hands.
- Albert Einstein didnâ€$(1t (Bspeak until he was six years old.
- Nearly 70% of African-American children are born out of wedlock. It's 42% for Hispanics, and 22% for whites.
+- Stupid Laws
- In Alabama, it's illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
+- Miscellaneous
- Yak hair is considered the best kind of hair from which to make a clown wig.
- Until the 1960s, men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
- There were five Jell-O flavors that floppedâ€$(Dce(Blery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.
- An hour of typing burns 110 calories.
+- Silly Phobias
- Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
- "Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
- "Coprastasophobia" is the fear of constipation.