More Useless Facts

Here are a few more totally useless factoids...

• A ' jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'

• If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

• A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

• The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.

• In Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in the late 50's thru early 70's, there was a dentist named 'Dunat Yelle'.

• There are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar.

• With your hands on your keyboard's home row, the longest word you can type using only your left hand is: "stewardesses". The longest word you can type using only your right hand is "lollipop".

• Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
  

• According to Beatles producer George Martin, Neal Hefti's catchy composition of the 1960's "Batman" Emmy-winning theme song inspired George Harrison to write the hit song, "Taxman."

• George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.

• A full moon always rises at sunset.

• Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

• acetwothreefourfivesixseveneightninetenjackqueenking. Excluding the joker, if you add up the letters in all the names of the cards in the deck (Ace, two, three, four,...king), the total number of letters is 52, the same as the number of cards in the deck. Spooky, huh?
  

• At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

• The World's Record for the longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long. That's 70 straight days!

• The longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub was 99 hours long.

• Q: What was the occupation of Charlie Brown's father? A: He was a barber.
  

• According to Scientific American magazine: if you live in the northern hemisphere, odds are that every time you fill your lungs with air at least one molecule of that air once passed thru Socrates lungs.
  

• The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.

• The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.

• During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

• 75% of the people who read this will hold their thumb up to their nose to compare the two.