Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Useless information...

This came up in a conversation I was having today... ever think about that super useless and ridiculous information you know? Well, I thought i would place together some random information here... anywho, while looking around at other random information that would be fun to know I stumbled upon this website: www.amusingfacts.com quite amusing!

Now, onto some rather useless information and amusing facts, you never know when you might need them!

1.
A turtle can breathe through its butt.
2.
Indonesia consists only of islands - 13,667 altogether.
3.
In North America there are approximately 618 roller coasters.
4. Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.
5.
Belle from the Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast" makes a cameo appearance in Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame.
6.
The first letter Vanna White ever turned on the game show Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."
7.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
8.
Approximately 1-2 calories are burned a minute while watching T.V.
9.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
10.
Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed.
11.
The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes.
12.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
13.
A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.
14.
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
15.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
16.
Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%.
17.
Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania.
18.
The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
19.
The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
20.
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.

Well, I guess that's all for today! On the note of having just wasted a good amount of time on useless information...

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon.







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