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Lakegirl asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 1 decade ago

Useless information and why do I know this?

Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine are the four states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards. What bit of useless information do you know?

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    -93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

    -A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

    -Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.

    -850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

    -A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.

    -Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners.

    -Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.

    -As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.

    -If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London.

    -In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."

    -In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale.

    -India has the most post offices in the world.

    -One billion seconds is about 32 years.

    -The Boeing 737 is nicknamed the Fat Albert.

    -The largest stamp was issued by China and measured 210 x 65 mm.

    -The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards

    -There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is no farther than 80 miles away.

    -The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.

    -Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

    -It's illegal to catch fish with a lasso in Tennessee

    -The last Sunday in June is "Log Cabin Day" in Michigan

    -Apocolocynopsis is the fear of turning into a pumkin

    -England's Queen Elizabeth I bathed 4 times a year

    -Skin is the body's heaviest and largest organ.

    -An albatross can fly at 25 mph and sleep at the same time

    -The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years

  • 1 decade ago

    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle

    Most lipstick contains fish scales.

    The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

    There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar

    On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year

  • 1 decade ago

    There is a city in Japan called Usa. It is a production area and many of their goods are shopped here to the U. S. A. Folks often mistake USA for U. S. A.

  • 1 decade ago

    If you take an old style five dollar bill and use a magnifier, you can read the words "In God We Trust" multiple times in the 'frame 'around President Lincoln's image. (I used this in wagers several times -there are many much more obvious uses of that phrase.)

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  • 1 decade ago

    Every single word of the song "I Think I Love You" by the Partridge Family--please! How do I delete these files!

  • -The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

    -Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

    -Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

  • 1 decade ago

    the plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

    a pig's orgasm can last up to 30 minutes.

  • 1 decade ago

    the electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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