Useless Facts

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1. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

 

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1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

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1. Statues in parks: If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

 

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1. The expression 'to get fired' comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the term 'Got fired'.

 

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1. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

 

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1. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

 

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1. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

 

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1. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 

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1. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

 

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1. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

 

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1. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

 

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1. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

 

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1. In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government subsidized housing.

 

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1. Honking of car horns for a couple that just got married is an old superstition to insure great sex.

 

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Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.

 

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1. The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.

 

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1. In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.

 

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1. The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.

 

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Napoleon's penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000.

 

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1. Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.