THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT ARE INTERESTING ANYWAY.

THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT ARE INTERESTING ANYWAY.

1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

 3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

 4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 6- There are more chickens than people in the world.

 7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is

"screeched."

 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the

Parliament building is an American flag.

 (I guess that's why we use 2 dollar coins now)

 9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on

4:20.

 10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,

silver or purple.

 11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters

"mt".

 12- Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 13- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in

"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

 14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

 17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is

10:10.

 18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

 19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after

Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver

 in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

 20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

 21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

 22- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

 24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

 25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a

radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

 26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

 28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

 29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it

starves to death.

 30- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but

actually clear.

 31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which

is why

 Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his

brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

 32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't

wear pants.

 33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in

plane crashes.

 34- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left

hand.

 35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

 36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

 37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually

turn white.

 38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than

left-handed people do.

 40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

uses every letter in the English language.

 41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with

which they start.

 42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the

letters on only one row of the keyboard.

 43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read

left to right or right to left.

 44- A snail can sleep for 3 years.

 45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one

olive from each salad served in first-class.

 46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

 47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a

population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

 48- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English

language.

 49- No president of the United states was an only child.

  And last and definitely most important:

 50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.