“Fight Against Stupidity
And Bureaucracy”
It’s Friday
again and what better day to indulge in a little more factoid fun. Start your
weekend off full of useless knowledge that you can impress and bore your friends
with.
Enjoy!
Do you know….
That 80
percent of Harvard students graduate with honors
That the chances
that a burglary in the US will be solved are 1 in 7
That the
government owns one third of all the land in the US
That they
put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM. Why?
That James
Buchanan was the only US President to remain a bachelor
That the only
first lady to carry a loaded revolver was Eleanor Roosevelt
That the only
US President to win a Pulitzer was John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in
Courage"
That the only
US President to be awarded a patent was Abraham Lincoln, for a system of
buoying vessels over shoals
That the US
President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem was Jimmy
Carter (I think is was hidden under the
oval office carpet)
That cigarettes
sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there, duh?
What
happens if you are in a vehicle going the speed of light and you turn on the
headlights?
That honey
is the only food that does not spoil
That a
Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards
That Antarctica
is the only continent without reptiles or snakes
Why is the
word “lisp” spelled with all the
letters that people with that affliction cannot pronounce?
That a pig
is the only animal besides human that can get sunburn
That ostriches
stick their heads in the sand to look for water
That an
eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it
That in the
Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
That for
some strange reason Americans drive on parkways and park on driveways.
That polar
bears are left-handed
Why is “dyslexic” such a difficult word to
spell?
That when
you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the
radio
That Eskimos
never gamble - I bet you didn’t know that.
That the
world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
That the
youngest pope was 11 years old
That Mark
Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
That proportional
to their weight, men are stronger than horses
That when
you transport something by car, it's
called a shipment, but when you
transport something by ship, it's
called cargo
That Pilgrims
ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner
What would
happen if you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a
height?
That your
nose and ears never stop growing
Why isn't “phonetic” spelled the way it sounds?
That Jupiter
is bigger than all the other planets combined
- Uranus! - No,
Jupiter.
That they
have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better
That Iceland
consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
Why your
nose runs and your feet smell?
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