Sometimes
some facts are useful knowledge. But then again, there are facts that
might be
considered strange and true, but not useful at all. Like the state of
Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island is.
But Rhode Island has a significantly larger
population than Alaska
does. Or Montana
has three times as many cows as it does people. Would any of this be
useful to
you? And yet, weird as it may seem, someone might find this information
interesting.
Do
we really need to know that the United
States has 845 motor vehicles for every
1,000 people? Or that Japan
only has 593 for every 1,000 people and Germany only has 540 for every
1,000 people? All that means is a lot of smog to me.
Other
maybe useless, but maybe not weird facts:
Jimmy
Carter was the first U.S.
president to have been born in a hospital.
One
survey found that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet
access in the United States
visit pornography websites while they are at work. (Really? I don't even want
to know what they might be doing in their cubicles while looking at the sites!)
There
are three towns in the United States that have the name "Santa
Claus".
In
Tokyo, a
bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There
are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
The
king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!
There
are no clocks in Las Vegas
gambling casinos!
Tourists
visiting Iceland
should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
Until
the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The
two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips
of rubber around car windows!
It's
illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
A
group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a
skein!
Clinophobia
is the fear of beds!
A
'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
The
sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every
letter of the alphabet!
Cat
urine glows under a black-light! (I wonder how someone determined this?)
Ancient
Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
Every
time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
In
Natoma, Kansas,
it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
It
was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
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