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Thirteen Useless Facts
For my 12th edition of Thursday 13, I have decided to make a list of 13 Useless Facts. Why? Because I couldn't think of anything else. How many of them did you know?
Enjoy!!
- Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.
- Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
- Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.
- The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.
- In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."
- Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
- Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
- Dennis the Menace's favorite drink is Root beer.
- The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
- When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole".
- An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
- Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse. Supermarkets report very strong sales of almost anything they stock at the check-out line.
- Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.
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Comments
Cool list! I think the only one I had heard before was #1. :O) Happy TT!
Posted by: Mary (mert) at January 18, 2007 12:15 PM
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.
That is really funny! :D
Posted by: Jenny Ryan at January 18, 2007 2:22 PM
I usually do at least one impulse buy in the grocery store...more if I don't take a list. :)
My 13 are up.
Posted by: Chickadee at January 18, 2007 4:26 PM
Hey ;)
Here via Michele's
Posted by: Oracle at January 19, 2007 6:43 PM
