Usless Information

My friend Stephanie has these great useless and random facts on her blog and they crack me up everytime I read them. I thought I would post some here...hope you get a giggle out of some of them. Or they just might make you say hmmm.

*Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off*

*A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star*

*In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license*

*The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites*

*Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world*

*Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none containing the letter "E"*

*No president of the United States was an only child*

*Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine*

*Mosquitoes have 47 teeth*

*Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales*

*Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult*

*During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 lbs of food, the weight of about 6 elephants*

*Dolphins sleep with one eye open*

*A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.*

*Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants*

*Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match*

*Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals*

*Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard*

*Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet*

*Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green*

*Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury*

*Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow*

Elephant urine is corrosive enough to eat through metal*

*The people of Monaco are not allowed to enter, much less gamble at, the famed Casino de Monte Carlo*

*In Fresno, CA it's against the law to annoy a lizard in a city park*

*In Glendale, CA one may not take his or her dog on an elevator with oneself*

*You aren't *supposed to take more than $10k in cash with you on an airplane without notifying the authorities*