 | ||||||
| ||||||
Useless Facts
All porcupines float in water.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but
more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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."
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Marilyn Monroe had eleven toes.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Chevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.
96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Before she met Popeye, Olive Oyl went out with Ham Gravy.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Peter Falk, the actor who played 'Colombo', has a glass eye.
Approximately 50% of Americans admit they have run a red light.
Who wrote "The Time Machine"? H.G. Wells wrote the science fiction classic "The Time Machine." In his novel, a man obsessed with the idea of time travel builds a machine and travels over 800,000 years into the future. There he discovers everything is not as socially advanced and rosy as it at first appears.
"To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe."
Carl Sagan
Other places to isit
