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Useless Facts 5
Some of the chariot racers in 'Ben Hur' were seen to be wearing wristwatches.
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes.
What is a "black act"?
It's a slang term to mean picking a lock in the dark.
Neptune is the only planet in our solar system to be
discovered by mathematics.
The average person keeps old magazines for 29 weeks before throwing them out.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, at the time, shaved eyebrows were a fad.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Dating back to the 1600s, thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
Does the White House have elevators? Yep, three of them, in addition to 8 staircases.
Thirty-Five percent of people who use personal adds for dating are already married.
Electric refrigerators were first sold to American housewives in 1916, at a cost of $900.
In Helsinki, Finland, instead of giving parking tickets, the police usually deflate tires.
The highest recorded temperature in the US was 134 Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California.
What exactly does "equinox" mean? "Equinox" comes from a Latin word meaning "equal night."
In 'Army of Darkness' watch Ash's hair all through the film, the length keeps changing.
In the 1985 movie 'Falling in Love' a reflection of the camera can be seen in a mirror.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
It cost over 7 million dollars to make Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson's Scream music video.
Gold was first known to be used as jewelry in parts of Central and Eastern Europe in 4000 B.C.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
The best working light-bulb a LONG time ago was a thread of sheep's wool coated with carbon.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried
in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.
Astronauts circling the Earth may be able to see as many as 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets each day.
What is a "Chicago overcoat"? In the 1920s, this was an underworld slang term to mean a coffin.
In 1977, the Voyager 1,2 photographed the first images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
~Tobias Smollett
