Pointless Information
The Southern Manifesto, a document promoting white supremacy, was originally signed by a current U.S. Senator, President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
The human brain is 80% water.
The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.
The average human brain weighs 1.3 kg.
The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.
Sloths spend 75% of their lives asleep.
A sloth can move twice as fast in water as it can on land.
At the deepest point, an iron ball would take more than an hour to sink to the ocean floor.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
Whales increase in weight 30,000,000,000 times in their first two years of life.
Whales cannot swim backwards.
Pepsi's "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in Chinese.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.
The farthest point on Earth from any ocean is in China.
The odds of dealing 13 cards of the same suit to each of 4 players is 2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,599,999 to 1.
In 1908, John O’Leary patented a large net, to be installed on the front fender, to scoop pedestrians out of the way before they could be run over.
Slugs have four noses.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.
The pound sign is called an "octothorp."
Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
The longest non-medical word in the English language is 'floccinaucinihilipilification', which means "the act of estimating as worthless."
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
A group of bears is called a "sloth."
The average person swallows 8 spiders a year.
13 people each year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
The odds of a person being struck by a meteorite are ten trillion to one.
The Australian Emu holds the land speed for birds at 31 mph.
I'll get more information when I'm in the mood. As you can see, some of these are lies. Well, actually, none of them are lies. Only the part about me getting more. Disturbingly, all the rest are true.
