useless info

It's Monday.... so here I go w/ useless garb.

1. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
2. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
3. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
4. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
5. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
6. No president of the United States was an only child.
7. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen! (this is my worst enemy each year)
8. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
9. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
10. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

useless info Wednesday edition

I didn't post this on Monday, so I thought I'd go ahead and post it today....

Facts:

1. 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321
2. 7% of Americans think Elvis is alive.
3. 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
4. The average child laughs 400 times a day. The average adult laughs 9 times a day.
5. There are 132 rooms in the White House.
6. "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's ashes (in a lipstick-sized container) orbited the earth for six years. The journey ended in 1997 when they burnt up during re-entry into earth's atmosphere. {{dad - that one was for you}}
7. A cow has four stomachs!
8. A piece of paper cannot be folded on itself more than seven times. Try it!
9. OLD LAW still on the books: In Tucson, Arizona, it is illegal for women to wear pants!
10. A nanometer is the length that your thumbnail grows in one second.

I'm thankful that the elections are over. I'm interested to see where this will take us.

useless info

Politics, gas prices, economy, stock market.... most days I take a deep breath before I turn on the news. So, in effort to lighten up things, I wanted to post my first Monday edition of random facts and ponderings...

Ten random facts:

1. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
2. In a speech made in 1961, John F. Kennedy was recorded as speaking at 327 words per minute, the fastest in public history.
3. You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers.
4. There is a city in Norway called "Hell.
5. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
6. Giraffes only sleep for 5 minutes a day.
7. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
8. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
9. A law in Alexandria, Minnesota makes it illegal for a husband to make love to his wife if his breath smells like garlic, onions, or sardines.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other.