25 Useless Facts

1. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
2. Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William, never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
3. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
4. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
5. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
6. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye!
7. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
8. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
9. Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
10. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
11. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
12. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
13. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
14. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
15. Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
16. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
17. A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
18. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
19. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
20. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
21. Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
22. Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
23. In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.
24. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
25. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!