50 Things You Don't Need To Know

1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
7. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
8. On a Canadian two-dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
9. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are suck on 4:20.
10. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
11. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters MT.
12. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
13. There are only 4 words in the english language that end in "dous:" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
14. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
16. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
17. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
18. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
19. The characters Bert and Ernie on sesame street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life.
20. A dragonfly has a life span of 1-6 months.
21. A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
22. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
23. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
24. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
25. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
26. The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
27. There are 336 dimples on a regular golf ball.
28. The average person eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
29. A cockroach can live 9 days without it's head before it starves to death.
30. A polar bear's skin is black. It's fur it not white, but actually clear.
31. Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: In honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tombstone.
32. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
33. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
34. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
36. Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot (but apparently this one isn't true!).
37. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
38. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
39. Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people do.
40. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
41. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
42. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
43. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
44. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
46. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
47. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
48. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49. No President of the United States was an only child.
50. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.