17 Interesting Yet Useless Facts

1.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.

2.

Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

3.

If you place a small amount of liquor on a scorpion it will go mad and sting itself to death.

4.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis a lung condition caused by inhaling sillicate or quartz dust.

5.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

6.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

7.

There is approximately 1 chicken for every human on earth.

8.

The original Michael Myers mask was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

9.

A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

10.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

11.

Most American car horns honk in key F.

12.

The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill

13.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition, as well as paper, tobacco, clothing, and lumber companies.

14.

Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending Machine's falling on them. All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 people have been injured.

15.

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

16.

Dildo is a town on the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is located on the southeastern Dildo Arm of Trinity Bay about 60 kilometres west of St. John's.

17.

The world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches