Totally useless facts ...

[marval]

Hawk, I would never call you a dork.


A chameleon's tongue is as long as its body and head and can shoot it out as fast as sixteen feet per second.

 

[Hawk Henries]

Margaret you are very kind

» The longest word in the English language is 1,913 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

 

[Corno Dolce]

4/5 Harvard students graduate with honors.

 

[marval]

Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe.

 

[methodistgirl]

Flip flops can be dangerous sandals on the feet. You don't know when
one of them are going to slip off and cause a fall.
judy tooley

 

[Contratrombone64]

Back to the thread ...

Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women.

 

[marval]

A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

 

[marval]

Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Marge Piercy wrote the novel "City of Darkness, City of Light" about the French Revolution in 1789.

 

[marval]

The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Canada is an Indian word meaning *big village*.

 

[Corno Dolce]

But you can then heat it up(preferably with a double boiler) and it will flow again.

 

[marval]

A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk.

 

[Corno Dolce]

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

 

[marval]

Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.

 

[Corno Dolce]

And Ho-ho-kus is right across the Hudson river from Manhattan.

 

[marval]

A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.