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18 Interesting Yet Useless Facts

More useless facts to annoy your friends with.

1.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants! Also Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy

2.

Everytime you lick a stamp you consume 1/10th of a calorie

3.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

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4.

James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger.

5.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

6.

400-quarter pounders can be made from 1 cow.

7.

Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

8.

Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

9.

The buzz from an electric razor in America plays in the key of B flat; Key of G in England

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10.

Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas."

11.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

12.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

13.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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14.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

15.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable

16.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

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17.

A palindrome is a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backwards as it does forward: Ex: 'Red rum, sir, is murder.' 'Ma is as selfless as I am.' 'Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!' 'A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.' 'He lived as a devil, eh?'

18.

Al Capones business card said he was a used furniture salesman.

19.

Only Three people were ever depicted on a pez dispenser, Betsy Ross, Daniel Boone, and Paul Revere.

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