Useless Trivia


1. The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.

2. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

3. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

4. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

5. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

6. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

7. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

8. The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.

9. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoons that feature both parents and they don't die throughout the movie.

10. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

11. There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstone Chewables

12. It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire. ...Guess they've never heard of evaporation...

13. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

14. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

15. In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.

16. In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.

17. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

18. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

19. Polar bears are left handed.

20. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

21. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.