Tell me something useless but very, very interesting?

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Answer 1

In 1999, 15,000 people in the UK were treated in hospital as a result of an accident with a vacuum cleaner! Mind-boggling!

Answer 2

The body of a snail is called the foot.

Answer 3

Ketchup leaves the bottle at 25 miles per year

The billionth digit of Pi is 9

Approx 80,000 people per year die due to toilet related injuries

Answer 4

The sky is very blue today hmm I wonder what goes beyond the sky

answer my question too please !

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Answer 5

Your The Bees Knee's

Did You Know Bee's Actually Don't Have Any Knee's ..

Answer 6

Cows can walk upstairs but not down

Answer 7

38 things that happen in movies and just movies?

1. It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting.

2. When paying for a taxi, don`t look at your wallet as you take out a note. Just grab one out at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

3. Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment it`s aired.

4. Creepy music (or satanic chanting) coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.

5. Any lock can be picked with a credit card or paperclip in seconds. UNLESS it`s the door to a burning building with a child inside.

6. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

7. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red digital displays so you know exactly when they are going to explode.

8. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to learn to speak German. Simply speaking English with a German accent will do. Similarly, when they are alone, all German soldiers prefer to speak English to each other.

9. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off. Even while scuba diving.

10. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.

11. Any police officer about to retire from the force will more often than not die on their last day (especially if their family have planned a party). (Caveat: Detectives can only solve a case after they have been suspended from duty).

12. Getaway cars never start first go. But all cop cars do. (They will also slide to a dramatic stop in the midst of a crime scene).

13. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises wearing their most revealing underwear.

14. On a police stake-out, the action will only ever take place when food is being consumed and scalding hot coffees are perched precariously on the dashboard...

15. All grocery shopping involves the purchase of French loaves which will be placed in open brown paper bags (Caveat: when said bags break, only fruit will spill out).

16. Cars never need fuel (unless they`re involved in a pursuit).

17. If you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts, your opponents will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around you in a threatening manner until you have defeated their predecessor.

18. If a microphone is turned on it will immediately feedback.

19. Guns are like disposable razors. If you run out of bullets, just throw the gun away. you will always find another one.

20. All single women have a cat.

21. Cars will explode instantly when struck by a single bullet.

22. No matter how savagely a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.

23. If being chased through a city you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick`s Day parade - at any time of the year.

24. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. Nobody will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.

25. You will survive any battle in any war UNLESS you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

26. Prostitutes always look like Julia Roberts or Jamie Lee Curtis. They have expensive clothes and nice apartments but no pimps. They are friendly with the shopkeepers in their neighbourhood who don`t mind at all what the girl does for a living.

27. A single match is usually sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.

28. It is not necessary to say "Hello" or "Goodbye" when beginning a telephone conversation. A disconnected call can always be restored by frantically beating the cradle and saying "Hello? Hello?" repeatedly.

29. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at once (it`s called Sylvester Stallone`s Law aka Rambo`s Law).

30. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in you room will still be visible, just slightly bluish.

31. Plain or even ugly girls can become movie star pretty simply by removing their glasses and rearranging their hair.

32. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their enemies with complicated devices incorporating fuses, pulleys, deadly gases, lasers and man-eating sharks.

33. All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach to armpit level on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her.

34. Anyone can land a 747 as long as there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

35. During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

36. You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

37. Most musical instruments (especially wind instruments and accordions) can be played without moving your fingers.

38. Trucks use their horns at random (no hang on, that happens in real

Answer 8

The ZIP in "Zip Code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

Answer 9

25% of London's pigeons have one leg or less.

Answer 10

Facts about Lincoln and Kennedy - Us presidents

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both of their wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head.

Both were shot with one bullet.

Both were rumored to be killed in a conspiracy.

Neither was confirmed to be a conspiracy.

Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater.

Kennedy was shot in a card made by the Ford Motor Company (a Lincoln no less)

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. (Urban Myth)

Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Their first names both contain six letters.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names comprise fifteen letters.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both assassins were assassinated before their trials.

Answer 11

One I learnt off QI a programme in the UK: what we usually term as a bannister- the long stretches of horizontal wood between columns of wood going down your stairs are called the ballistrade.  

Answer 12

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.

Answer 13

**A male pig's o****m lasts for 30 minutes.

Answer 14

Hippopotamonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Answer 15

False eyelashes were invented by the American film director D.W. Griffith while he was making his 1916 epic, "Intolerance". Griffith wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks, to make her eyes shine larger than life. A wigmaker wove human hair through fine gauze, which was then gummed to Owen's eyelids. "Intolerance" was critically acclaimed but flopped financially, leaving Griffith with huge debts that he might have been able to settle easily - had he only thought to patent the eyelashes.

Answer 16

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores.  

Answer 17

anything to the power of zero is 1

Answer 18

If you spread your arms wide, and using your pointer fingers point outward, then tilt so say your right pointer finger is touching the ground and the left pointer finger is straight up pointing to the ceiling, then that is how tall you are.

The average bar of chocolate averages about 8 insect legs inside each.

The average human eats about 8 spiders in their lifetime during their sleep.

If you leave a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.

'I am.' is the shortest most complete sentence in the English language.

The dot over a lower case 'i' is called a tittle.

Answer 19

a polar bears fur isn't actually white. it's colourless and only looks white because of the reflection of the sun.

Answer 20

Inthe same way that chickens keep running when their heads are chopped off, humans can for a limited time, do the same thing. Becuase the signals to move have already been sent to the bits of the body before the head is chopped off.

Similarly if you go to sleep humming or tapping your fingers or such-like, you may well spend most, if not all of the night doing it.

Answer 21

butterflies  can't   swim   underwater  even  a  aqualung

Answer 22

Most lipstick contains fish scales

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland

Slugs have 4 noses

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years

Answer 23

some species of snails have s*x with themselves to reproduce known as asexual reproduction.

Some animals like this lizard specie in mexico where all are females could reproduce by themselves kinda like the virgin mary :)

some birds have with the same s*x do it with each other, among with sheep, dolphins, fruit bats and orangutans.

Answer 24

100% of these answers are useless.

Answer 25

It is my neighbours birthday.

Answer 26

The lighter was invented before the matches.

Answer 27

Men have nipples because when they were a developing fetus the body didn't have enough hormones to determine if it was a girl or a boy. The body was prepared to be a girl just in case.  

Answer 28

The difference between an ape and a monkey is that a monkey has a tail whilst the ape does not.

Answer 29

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers

failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm)

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches

tall.

Answer 30

It is no good having a 'Slanging Match' in Space as you can't be heard as there is no Atmosphere !

Answer 31

6 facts on earth

1st fact : U can't touch all ur teeth with ur tongue.

2nd fact : After reading this , all fools will try it.

3rd fact : Now u will smiles Becuz u have become a fool.

4th fact : Now u want 2 fool ur friends.

5th fact : Now u forward it 2 all fools.

6th fact : Fact 1 is false.fool

another fact true

its impossible to do a sit up with your eyes closed

sneeze with your eyes open