A wealth of useless knowledge...

Every once in a while i find myself pulling a "Cliff Claven" and spewing forth knowledge that nobdy cares about such as:

Hawaii consumes the most Spam luncheon meat per capita.

What do you know???? Care to share?

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The only information I ever retain is useless information.

For example:

The average can of Spaghetti-O's has 1,750 O's.

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I love useless knowledge...I cannot think of any at the moment...I'll will add later

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In Kentucky there is a state law mandating that you MUST bathe at least once per year.

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I know useless trivia too...

Did you know North Jersey is the Embroidery Capitol of the World?

I know for me, I always wondered where that was...

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Posted by MrsRbk

I know useless trivia too...

Did you know North Jersey is the Embroidery Capitol of the World?

I know for me, I always wondered where that was...

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here is a bunch I posted last week...

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

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

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

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

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

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

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

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OMG-- love this thread. I love extraneous bits of information.

Did you know that when you sneeze, and your head goes back, it's gearing it to move at 200 MPH for when the sneeze comes out.

I have more-- but, I am at a loss right now.

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Posted by MrsRbk

I know useless trivia too...

Did you know North Jersey is the Embroidery Capitol of the World?

I know for me, I always wondered where that was...

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ok, here's a really random and useless piece of info:

when my hometown was founded a few hundred years ago, the name was spelled wantaugh.

when the railroad came and they started painting the signs, the accidentally left out the "u" and decided to leave it that way.

that is why wantagh is spelled the way it is today!

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Posted by leighla

Posted by MrsRbk

I know useless trivia too...

Did you know North Jersey is the Embroidery Capitol of the World?

I know for me, I always wondered where that was...

DH and I laugh everytime we pass that sign.

How does one BECOME the embroidery capital of the world?

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Ok I was driving along today and remembered 2 more pieces of totally useless info:

1) The guy who sings in the "Real Men of Genius" commercials for Budweiser was the original singer for the band Survivor - the one who sang "The Eye of the Tiger" for Rocky III.


2) Prince wrote the music for Stevie Nicks' "Stand Back". If you listen to the beginning of both that song and "Little Red Corvette," they are quite similar