Useless information post thread.

[Butch]

Reading the paper and checking news on line has me shaking my head with the useless information that the editor finds its good enough to print or put it on site. But maybe I am wrong and so do find it worthwhile and informative. And then to think us taxpayers fund so many useless studies.

So post what you think is useless information and let's find out who thinks otherwise.

This one comes from our own Toronto Sun.

https://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/07/dinosaurs-blown-away-by-own-farts-say-researchers


Dinosaurs blown away by own farts, say researchers

They didn't see the warm front coming - but they sure would have heard it.
Dinosaurs changed their environment, thanks in part to their own powerful farts, new research suggests.

U.K. scientists have calculated the amount of flatulence large plant-eating dinosaurs would have produced at the dawn of our world, and say the combined ill wind would have been enough to warm the Earth. But they fall short of saying the back-fires may have led to their extinction.

Publishing their findings in the journal Current Biology, authors of the joint study -- from Liverpool John Moore's University, the University of London and the University of Glasgow -- centred their calculations on how much methane giant lumbering sauropods would have produced.

Sauropods are among the largest of the dinosaurs, known for their large bodies, long necks and small heads.
By comparing the dino-fart calculations to the amount released by modern cows, the researchers estimate all dinosaurs would have let rip a combined 520 million tonnes of gas every year. That would be enough to alter the climate 150 million years ago, the study suggests.

Dr. David Wilkinson, from Liverpool John Moore's University, told QMI Agency that doesn't mean the dinosaurs gassed themselves out of existence.
"Extremely unlikely," he said, adding that's an opinion others appear to be putting on the science.

With so many variables, Wilkinson said: "All we have done is to show that it is possible in principle that sauropods (or at least the microbes in them) may have produced enough methane to have a modest climate impact."

Even today, cows alone pump as much as 100 million tonnes of methane up into the Earth's atmosphere, and about 500 million tonnes annually are released from a combination of sources.

But the scientists believe, since dinosaurs weren't the only source of methane gas, overall levels may have been higher than today.
It's not the only glimpse of odd perils faced by dinosaurs included in the issue Current Biology.

In it, Chinese researchers also report they've discovered a giant flea-like insect -- 10 times the size of current dog fleas -- that fed on the soft under-belly of dinosaurs.

 

[LittleJohnny]

1. 
   [*]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.

1. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
2. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
3. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
4. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
5. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

1. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
2. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
3. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver.
4. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
5. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

1. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
2. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
3. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
4. The original name for butterfly was flut****y.
5. 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.

1. 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.
2. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
3. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
4. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
5. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

1. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
2. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
3. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
4. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
5. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

1. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to passing gas in such a confined space....
2. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!! (P-factor exists everywhere!)

 

[Transient]

I am horny.

 

[HOF]

Sorry Guido,

This thread is useless and even more useless without pictures.

 

[HOF]

https://www.hubgfe.com/community/showthread.php?37233-Ughhh-Process-Servers/page2

Useless at its best.

 

[HOF]

-!!!

This qualifies too.

 

[Iceangler]

Add one more.

 

[Legit]

CIA foils new al-Qaeda underwear bomb plot against airliner


Does anyone believe this anymore?.

U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaeda improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane.Officials told The Associated Press a day earlier that discovery of the unexploded bomb represented an intelligence prize resulting from a covert CIA operation in Yemen, saying that the intercept thwarted a suicide mission.

The device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it. The device is an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. Officials said this new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaeda developed a more refined detonation system.​

ssion around the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden

Read more:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...RSS/Atom&utm_source=World&utm_content=2425831​

 

[God]

https://specials.msn.com/a-list/news/susanne-eman-bride-popular-pages

 

[George Costanza]

Officials worry urinating swimmers may be reason for 500 dead fish


At least that's what a group of anglers contend, blaming swimmers for the 500 dead fish that have turned up in a picturesque German lake near Hamburg, The Local reported.
"Swimmers who urinate in the lake are introducing a lot of phosphate," Manfred Siedler, a spokesman for an angler’s group, told Bild newspaper. "We're calculating half a liter of urine per swimmer per day."
Skeptics questioned whether the outcry was an attempt by fishermen to oust bathers – with whom they have long feuded, according to The Local – but are saying this could be possible.
IO9.com, a Gawker science blog posed the question, “Can anything as natural as peeing in a lake kill the fish?”
The answer, apparently, is yes.

The urine itself doesn’t harm the fish but sets off a series of environmental events that ultimately suffocate the fish.
First, the urine acts as a fertilizer for the blue-green algae in the water. Once they have consumed all the fertilizer, the algae continue sucking up available oxygen in the water, IO9.com explained. When the algae die and start to decompose, they further use up oxygen. That’s when fish start to die.

Bild reported that authorities have poured more than half a million dollars of an anti-phosphate agent called Bentophos into the lake, to no avail.
(Bentophos has been that were shut down due to massive bacterial blooms.)

For now, the lake is closed to swimmers because of the high levels of algae (which can cause swimmer's itch), but the city's environmental authority is fighting the closure, The Local reported.
Kerstin Graupner, a spokeswoman for the environmental authority, told The Local that she blamed natural causes and ice-skaters.

"The ice-skaters make a noise that wakes the fish out of hibernation," Graupner said. "Then they can't breathe and freeze. That's a very common phenomenon."
Graupner’s agency called on a university in Hamburg to test the anglers’ theory. According to The Local, it appears the anglers may have a point – the scientists found anabaena algae blooms, which produce a toxin that ultimately restricts fish breathing.

The German lake isn’t the only place where officials worry about swimmers; signs at the Great Barrier Reef ask swimmers not to urinate in the water. Doing so apparently kills the corals, which grow in low nutrient waters.

 

[DannyDeVito]

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Google's employees 70% male, 61% white: report

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc revealed the gender and racial makeup of its 50,000-strong workforce on Wednesday, disclosing a significantly below-average proportion of minorities and women employees that it said was "miles from where we want to be."

Google's disclosure of its workforce demographics represented a rare move for a U.S. company, even if the figures came as no surprise to those familiar with Silicon Valley, an industry long scrutinized for its lack of diversity. Blacks and Hispanics made up just 2% and 3% of overall employees at Google, respectively, while women accounted for 30%, the company said in a detailed blogpost.

That compares with the U.S. workforce average of about 47% women in 2012, according to the Department of Labor. For blacks and people of Hispanic descent, it was 12% and 16%, respectively.

"Put simply, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity, and it's hard to address these kinds of challenges if you're not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts," Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations, said in the Wednesday blogpost.
The employment gaps for women and minorities in the tech sector may stem from education, Bock said. Women earn roughly 18% of all computer science degrees in the

United States; blacks and Hispanics make up less than 10% of U.S. college grads and collect fewer than 5% of degrees in computer science majors, respectively, he argued.

But Bock, who added that Google has donated more than US$40 million to organizations promoting computer science education among women, said Google recognized the extent of the internal problem and was open to discussion about possible solutions.

"We've always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google. We now realize we were wrong, and that it's time to be candid about the issues," he wrote.

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson attended shareholder meetings at both Google and Facebook earlier this month to raise the issue of racial diversity in the Valley.

https://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/29/googles-employees-70-male-61-white-report

 

[Wanker]

At least they hire those that are qualified and not the minority for the sake of it and to keep away the political correct - incorrect people like Jackson.

 

[Insertion]

I am out of bananas!

 

[papasmerf]

I am out of bananas!

I hear there are strawberries somewhere around here

 

[Willy]

I am unhappily married.

 

[papasmerf]

I am unhappily married.

and who's fault is that?

 

[Willy]

and who's fault is that?

Us men must always take the blame.

 

[Louiloui]

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  [*]In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  [*]The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  

• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  [*]The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
  [*]The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
  [*]Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
  [*]Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
  [*]If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
  [*]Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  [*]The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
  [*]A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
  [*]It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  [*]The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  

• Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
  [*]In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  [*]The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  [*]On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
  [*]All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
  

• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  [*]"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  [*]All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
  [*]Almonds are members of the peach family.
  [*]Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  [*]Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  [*]The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  [*]The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  

• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  [*]American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  [*]China has more English speakers than the United States.
  [*]The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  [*]A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
  [*]Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
  

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  [*]Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
  [*]When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
  [*]The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
  [*]Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
  [*]On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  [*]The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
  [*]"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  [*]The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
  [*]It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  

• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
  [*]Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  [*]Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  [*]You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
  [*]The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  [*]There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
  [*]Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  [*]Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  [*]In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  [*]Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  [*]Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  [*]The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  [*]Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
  

• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
  [*]Currently one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  [*]The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  [*]If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  [*]Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
  [*]Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  

• If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
  [*]Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  [*]The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
  [*]A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  [*]The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
  [*]Polar bears are left-handed.
  [*]The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
  [*]The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
  [*]First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
  [*]Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  

• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  [*]More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  [*] English language.
  [*]The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  [*]The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
  [*]TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  [*]If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  

• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
  [*]A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
  [*]Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
  [*]An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  [*]Starfish haven't got brains.
  [*]Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  [*]Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  

• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
  [*]There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  [*]Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
  [*]A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  [*]Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  [*]In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  [*]Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
  

• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
  [*]When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
  [*]The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
  

• The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
  [*]The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  [*]Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
  [*]John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
  [*]The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  

• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  [*]Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  [*]The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  [*]A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  [*]There are more chickens than people in the world.
  [*]Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  

• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  [*]A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  [*]A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  [*]On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
  [*]There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  

 

[Pistolwhipper]

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  [*]In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  [*]The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  

• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  [*]The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
  [*]The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
  [*]Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
  [*]Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
  [*]If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
  [*]Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  [*]The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
  [*]A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
  [*]It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  [*]The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  

• Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
  [*]In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  [*]The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  [*]On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
  [*]All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
  

• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  [*]"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  [*]All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
  [*]Almonds are members of the peach family.
  [*]Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  [*]Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  [*]The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  [*]The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  

• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  [*]American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  [*]China has more English speakers than the United States.
  [*]The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  [*]A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
  [*]Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
  

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  [*]Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
  [*]When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
  [*]The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
  [*]Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
  [*]On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  [*]The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
  [*]"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  [*]The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
  [*]It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  

• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
  [*]Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  [*]Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  [*]You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
  [*]The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  [*]There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
  [*]Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  [*]Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  [*]In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  [*]Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  [*]Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  [*]The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  [*]Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
  

• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
  [*]Currently one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  [*]The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  [*]If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  [*]Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
  [*]Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  

• If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
  [*]Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  [*]The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
  [*]A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  [*]The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
  [*]Polar bears are left-handed.
  [*]The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
  [*]The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
  [*]First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
  [*]Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  

• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  [*]More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  [*] English language.
  [*]The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  [*]The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
  [*]TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  [*]If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  

• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
  [*]A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
  [*]Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
  [*]An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  [*]Starfish haven't got brains.
  [*]Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  [*]Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  

• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
  [*]There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  [*]Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
  [*]A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  [*]Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  [*]In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  [*]Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
  

• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
  [*]When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
  [*]The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
  

• The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
  [*]The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  [*]Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
  [*]John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
  [*]The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  

• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  [*]Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  [*]The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  [*]A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  [*]There are more chickens than people in the world.
  [*]Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  

• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  [*]A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  [*]A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  [*]On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
  [*]There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  

LOL, useless enough.

 

[DonCorleo]

Tomorrow is going to be sunny.