Funny and Completely Useless Facts

Thomas Edison, who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F, which is also the same key as a telephone dial tone.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 years, from 1922-1990. They started after a 300-pound hog fell on top of him while he was getting ready to slaughter it. The hiccups stopped when he was 96, about a year before he died.
In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls.
Olive oil can be used as a hair conditioner.
What does a soldier keep in a frog? His bayonet
The first bar of chocolate was produced by Cadbury in England in 1842.
Coca-cola has never been patented because to do that they would have to reveal the formula.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in the early 1900s.
What planet has 1,600 volcanoes? Venus
Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word.
Damaged bills that are torn in half are still legal tender. They can be taken to a bank to be replaced.
All cows are female. Male “cows” are called bulls.
At least 9 million other people in the world have the same birthday as you.
In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
What is the dot over the letter ‘i’ called? A tittle.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
If you keep certain types of a Goldfish in the dark room, they will eventually turn white.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.
Like with fingerprints, everybody has a different tongue print.
What is Epcot an acronym for? Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
There are a lot more chickens than people in the world.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Who is the Greek god of music? Apollo
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ’s Mass.
What country owns the island of Bermuda? Great Britain
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!.
Charlie Brown’s dad was a barber.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Where were orange trees first grown? China
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the alphabet.
What singer recorded an album named “The IRS Tapes; Who’ll Buy My Memories” to help pay his $16.7 million tax bill? Willie Nelson
Snakes can’t blink.
What singer’s birthday (February 6th) is a national holiday in Jamaica? Bob Marley
Frank and Ethel Mars introduced the Snickers bar in 1929. They named it after their family’s horse.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Espresso has significantly less caffeine per ounce than regular coffee.
The full name for the City of Los Angeles’ is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!.