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Robert E. Lee wore size 4 1/2 size shoe!
Before the 1800s, there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.
Pirates thought having an earring would improve their eyesight.
John Hancock was the only one of fifty signatories of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it in July.
In Omaha, Nebraska, it's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church.
It is illegal for boys in ninth grade to grow a mustache in Binghamton, New York.
A fingerprint is also known as a dactylogram.
M&Ms stands for the last names of Forrrest Mars Sr., the sweet maker, and his associate, Bruce Murrie. The candy was developed so soliders could eat sweets without getting their fingers sticky.
The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day!
The most common name for goldfish is Jaws.
A horologist measures time.
Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
There are more brown M&Ms in plain M&Ms than in peanut M&Ms.
Bill Gates's first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines that recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey, not the eagle, to be the U.S. national bird!
Four hundred quarter-poinders can be made out of one cow!
Ray Kroc bought McDonald's for $2.7 million in 1961 from the Mcdonald brothers.
There are about five thousand different languages spoken on Earth.
If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke!
The average life (time in circulation) of a $10 bill is 18 months.
It takes about sixty-three thousand trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
On the U.S. $100 bill, the time on the clock tower os Independence Hall is 4:10.
A can of Diet Coke will float in water, while a can of regular Coke sinks!
Coca-Cola was originally green!
A single share of Coca-Cola stock purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997!
The Book of Useless Information, July 2006
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/ Thanks Brinkley
Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big village”.
Right-Handed people live, on average, nine years longer then Left-handed people do.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
http://www.uselessfacts.ca/ Thanks Matt V.
Chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."
http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/ Thanks Yuta
