18 Interesting Yet Useless Facts
1.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants! Also Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
3.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
5.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
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.
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.
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.
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?'
19.
Only Three people were ever depicted on a pez dispenser, Betsy Ross, Daniel Boone, and Paul Revere.
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