Useless Trivia II

"Useless Trivia II"*

*During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000
pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
 
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
 
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
 
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
 
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because
there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces.
 
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
 
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
 
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
 
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
 
Slugs have 4 noses.

Rice paper does not have any rice in it.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
 
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
 
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
 
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
 
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
 
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
 
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.
 
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons
of fresh water.
Received on Sun Oct 5 11:04:24 2008