useless facts for you to know

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+ Music

  1. Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.
  2. Britney Spears' middle name is Jean.
  3. American electric razors hum in the key of B flat. Razors in England, however, buzz in the key of G.
  4. In the eighth grade, Elvis Presley got a "C" grade in music.
  5. Stevie Nicks does most of her songwriting in the bathroom.
  6. Elvis Presley's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."

+ Politics

  1. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
  2. Actor Tom Hanks is a descendant of Abraham Lincoln.
  3. Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhea.
  4. President Lyndon Johnson nicknamed his penis "Jumbo."
  5. President Lyndon Johnson had an aunt named Frank.
  6. Every U.S. President that has had a beard has been Republican.
  7. At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.

+ Language

  1. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange, purple, or silver, or month.
  2. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  3. In Latin, the word "disco" means "I learn."
  4. The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is "Quartzy."
  5. Kielbasa is the Polish word for sausage. So, kielbasa sausage literally means "sausage sausage."
  6. Ukulele means "jumping flea" in Hawaiian.
  7. The word "bozo" derives from the French slang term bouseaux (meaning "hick or yokel"). However, bouseaux literally means "cow turds."
  8. In the 1940s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear Americans would pronounce it "bitch."
  9. Colgate faced a an obstacle marketing its toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countriesâ€$(DCo(Blgate translates as "go hang yourself."
  10. 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."
  11. The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish word "aguacate," which in turn is derived from the Aztec word "ahuacatl" which meant testicle.
  12. "Uromancy" is the practice of predicting the future by studying urine.
  13. The only English word that contains a triple letter is "goddessship."
  14. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

+ Transportation

  1. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

+ Stupid People

  1. A lot of photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
  2. About 100 people a year choke to death on ballpoint pens.
  3. Five hundred Americans are injured in their bathtubs each day.
  4. Every year, about 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats.

+ The Human Body

  1. A person suffering from polythelia has 3 nipples.
  2. The average American male has seven erections per day.
  3. The typical person goes to the bathroom six times a day.
  4. The average person produces about 12,000 gallons of urine over the course of their lifetime.
  5. The smell of Crayola crayons has been proven to lower blood pressure.
  6. The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve fibers, twice as many as the penis.

+ Science and Technology

  1. 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.
  2. Thirty-four percent of Microsoft employees are Indian.
  3. There is a mineral called cummingtonite.

+ Sports

  1. 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.]
  2. All cheerleaders were male in 1898. Now, about three percent are.
  3. Among other things, ninjas were trained to tell what time it was by looking into a cat's eye.

+ Animals

  1. Erect giraffe penises are about four feet long.
  2. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
  3. The size of a mosquito penis is 1/100th of an inch.
  4. A dragonfly's penis has a shovel on the end that scoops out a rival male's semen.
  5. Most turkeys and giraffes are bisexual.
  6. Liquefied bubble gum is an effective insecticide. Bugs chew on it and their jaws stick together and they starve to death.
  7. The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.
  8. There is a species of moth that lives entirely on cow tears.

+ TV and Movies

  1. Before Popeye, Olive Oyl had a boyfriend named Ham Gravy.
  2. There have been 47 Charlie Chan movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese.
  3. Reportedly, Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.



  4. 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.
  5. The first episode of Joanie Loves Chachi was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
  6. In her films, Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.

+ People

  1. Seventy-five percent of Japanese women own vibrators. The global average is 47 percent.
  2. Sir Isaac Newton died a virgin.
  3. The Roman emperor Nero would dress up young boys in his dead wife's clothes and make love to them.
  4. If an Amish man has a beard, it means he's married.
  5. Albert Einstein didnâ€$(1t (Blike to wear socks.
  6. When men of the Walibri tribe of central Australia greet each other, they shake penises instead of hands.
  7. Albert Einstein didnâ€$(1t (Bspeak until he was six years old.
  8. Nearly 70% of African-American children are born out of wedlock. It's 42% for Hispanics, and 22% for whites.

+ Stupid Laws

  1. In Alabama, it's illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

+ Miscellaneous

  1. Yak hair is considered the best kind of hair from which to make a clown wig.
  2. Until the 1960s, men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
  3. There were five Jell-O flavors that floppedâ€$(Dce(Blery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.
  4. An hour of typing burns 110 calories.

+ Silly Phobias

  1. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
  2. "Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
  3. "Coprastasophobia" is the fear of constipation.