Useless Facts

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1. The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip!

 

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

 

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1. When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph. During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping one's eyes open during a sneeze.

 

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1. Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%

 

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1. %60 of all people using the Internet, use it for pornography.

 

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1. In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

 

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Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

 

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1. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

 

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1. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

 

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1. The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

 

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1. A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

 

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1. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

 

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1. Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

 

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1. In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.

 

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1. It's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.

 

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1. Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

 

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1. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

 

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1. One third of all cancers are sun related.

 

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1. THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.

 

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1. It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.