Useless Facts

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

 

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1. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

 

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1. A palindrome is a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backwards as it does forward: Ex: 'Red rum, sir, is murder.' 'Ma is as selfless as I am.' 'Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!' 'A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.' 'He lived as a devil, eh?'

 

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1. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

 

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1. In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. It was estimated to save the nation about 300,000 barrels of oil each year by adding most of the month April to D.S.T.

 

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The Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing.

 

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The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

 

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1. Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

 

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1. If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.

 

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1. There are 1 million ants for every human in the world.

 

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1. Odds of being killed by lightening? 1 in 2million/killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000/killed by falling out of bed? 1 in 2million/killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.

 

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1. Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending Machine's falling on them. 13 people are killed annually. All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 people have been injured.

 

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1. Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

 

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1. The 'Golden Arches' of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of Christianity.

 

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1. Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan is the most recognized face in the world, more than the pope himself.

 

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1. The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

 

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1. The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes per year and is hit by Lightning 100 times a second.

 

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1. Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

 

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1. If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

 

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1. On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.