What are some weird facts you have to throw out?

Question

I doing a little project and I at least need 500 facts. They can be about any strange thing. Throw them out.

Answer 1

In 1943 the U. S. Supreme Court announced that the Nikola Tesla was the inventor of the radio and not Guglielmo Marconi.  The reason was something to the effect that Marconi's company was suing the United States Government for the use of the radio during WW2, and to avoid the situation the Supreme Court restored Tesla's original patent on the radio.

Answer 2

Everyones Related.

Only 1/2 the world wears shoes.

Every 5 Seconds someone dies

Every 5 seconds someone is born

Every 5 seconds someone is in a car accident

Every 5 seconds someone goes into the hospitial

Every 2 seconds someone eats some or lots of food

Answer 3

We are currently in an iceage (defined as any time period when ice caps exist)

The human has 9 senses, not five (other's include sense of heat and being able to point to any part of your body eyes closed)

The largest man made structure is not the Great Wall of China, but infact a trash dump in New York City

No one ever thought the world was flat

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos

Every advertisement for a clock or watch shows the same time

Flamingos don't get their pink coloring from shrimp, but rather from blue green algea, despite its name, it is a crimson, pinkish, red color

There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones

Ernest Wright wrote a book called Gadsby that contained 50,000 words, none containing the letter e

In the English language, the word set has the most definitions

Owls are one of the few birds that can see the color blue

Answer 4

A cat's comfort in it's surroundings are expressed by the position of it's tail. If it is very comfortable in it's surroundings, it's tail will be straight up. If it is uncomfortable, it's tail will be held down. If it isn't sure, it's tail will be straight out. That is why cats, often, get their tails shut in the door as they are going outside.

Answer 5

Beavers can hold their breath underwater for forty-five minutes.

The explosion that occurred over Tunguska, Russia on June 30th, 1908 was more powerful than 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.

Cats that never interact with humans don't meow.

As of 2007, the United States is thirty-seventh in the world in infant mortality rate (Cuba is thirty-sixth).

Benjamin Franklin did not discover electricity, despite what is commonly taught to young children,  He merely proved that lightning is electricity.

The only places on a dog's body that has sweat glands is his tongue and the pads of his paws.

Some anthropologists believe that beer was invented before bread.

In ancient Japan, sake was first fermented by a whole village getting together, chewing on malted rice, spitting the "mash" into bowls of water, and letting them sit out in the sun for weeks.

Answer 6

A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day. :)

Answer 7

In Alaska, it's illegal to look at a moose from an airplane.

Answer 8

0.7% of the worlds population is drunk at any one time.

Humans share 40% of their DNA with cabbages.

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year.

Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.

In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.

Most toilets flush in E flat.

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

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have s*x for pleasure.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily

American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

^ Just some random ones I found by typing 'useless facts' in Google.

Answer 9

Your foot is as long as your foot to your elbow

You p**p 2 feet of t**d a day

High fat diet=p**p floats

if you stretch arms out side to side= height