A couple of years ago I started posting useless facts of the day on Facebook just for the fun of it. They were always things that no one really needed to know but were funny anyway. Sometimes I would whip the facts out when there were lulls at parties or I didn't know what else to say to someone. As weird as that sounds, it always broke the ice. The following are 20 Completely Useless Facts You Never Needed to Know.
1. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so high-pitched that you need special equipment to hear them, but when you do their laughs are immediately evident.
2. Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia (the fear of the number 13). He died 13 minutes before midnight on Friday the 13th.
Poor guy, that just wasn't his lucky day. (See what I did there?)
3. In Germany there are fake bus stops outside many nursing homes to prevent confused senior citizens from wandering off.
Okay Germany, that's kinda smart.
4. There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the 8-studied Lego bricks of one color.
Because I am sure that is what crosses your mind when you step on a lego.
5. It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.
I don't know about you, but i usually don't take an orange into my bathroom let alone eat it in the bathtub.
6. There were always 56 curls in Shirley Temple's hair.
That is a very specific number. Did they hire someone to count her curls everyday? What happens if there was a curl missing? I bet the questions he/she got about being on set were great. "So, what did you do on set?" "Oh, you know, I counted the number of curls in a small child's hair everyday."
7. Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a building, it is 30 percent less likely to survive than a cat that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about 8 floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Who tried this? Why would you do that to a cat?
8. Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year. So do cows.
Side note where I quote Monty Python and hope you don't judge me: Where'd you get the coconuts? We found them. Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical! The shallow may fly south while the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climates in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land? Are you suggesting coconuts migrate? But really though, how did coconuts kill that many people.
9. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
I bet he ruined that lab coat.
10. In a test performed by Canadian scientists using various styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.
Well I guess that might be useful if you need to, umm, motivate your chickens... Canadians.
11. It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.
Wait, the owl taught me it was three. Also .18? How does one lick a tootsie pop .18 times?
12. It's impossible to lick your elbow. 75 percent of you are going to try to do just that.
Stop that! You look dopey. Stop making a fool out of yourself.
13. It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
What if your real mustache causes laughter in church?
14. In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
That just seems dangerous. I can only imagine that going like this, "Look at how fashionable I look with my lightning rod...ZAPP!"
15. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
Well thats awkward. I would not want to have to explain that injury to anyone.
16. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
Really? Why?! Why would you try that?!
17. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space. Passing wind in a space suit damages them.
Wait damages who? The suit or the astronaut? Is it just because of the beans or does casually farting in the suits also damage them?
18. The finger prints of a Koala bear are virtually indistinguishable from those of a human. In other words they can easily be confused at a crime scene.
So, uh, watch out. You never know when a Koala might frame you for murder.
19. It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan.
You're kidding right? Is that even a real place? Why can't you frown at cows? Was that a big problem at one time. Were people just frowning at cows and then farmers would find that their milk was going sour?
20. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 years.
Poor guy. That had to have sucked. I hate getting the hiccups in general, imagine having them non-stop for 68 years.
