Useless knowledge but 2 b known

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
• A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
• During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with month, orange, purple, and silver.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• 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.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
• The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
• 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.
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20."
• 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.
• Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
• "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 England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• 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 a red light.
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
• 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.
• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
• The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
• 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' and 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• 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 is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
• There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• 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.