Friday, July 8, 2011

Useless Facts

Let's face it . . . I don't have much to blog about today, so I thought I would share some useless "facts" with you! 
Enjoy.
  1. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
  2. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  3. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
  4. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
  5. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  6. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
  7. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  8. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
  9. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  10. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  11. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  12. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  13. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
  14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  15. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

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