Useless Facts – You’re Welcome.

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

• There are 2 words in the English language that contains all of the vowels in their alphabetical order: facetiously & abstemiously.

• The 3 most common languages in the world are English, Spanish and Sign.

• The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

• M & M’s stands for the initials of the inventors (Forrest Mars & Bruce Murrie).

• The original M&M colours were: red, yellow, brown, green, and violet.

• The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.

• Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs in one second.

• Everyday blinking causes the eye to be closed for about ½ hour.

• The human foot has 26 bones.  7 in the ankle, 5 in the instep and 14 in the toes.

• Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen that you breathe.

• The “funny bone” is not a bone; it is a nerve in the elbow.

• Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.  Both animals are on the Australian coat of arms for the reason.

• The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear. The staples (or stirrup) bone is only 2.8 millimetres long.

• The word ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends with the letters ‘mt’.

• Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails.

• The first TONKA truck was made in 1947.

• Humans are born with 300 bones in their body.  When a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones.  This occurs because many of the bones join together to make a single bone.

• The only planet that rotates on its side like a barrel is Uranus. The only planet that spins backwards relative to the others is Venus.

• The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

• Every person has a unique tongue print.

• In 2006, astronomers changed the definition of a planet. This means that Pluto is now referred to as a dwarf planet.

• Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before.

• Saturn isn’t the only ringed planet, other gas giants such as Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings, they are just less obvious.

• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’.

• There is a Superman somewhere in every episode of Seinfeld.

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

• Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones.

• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

• A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

• The Sun is over 300000 times larger than earth.

• Halley’s Comet was last seen in the inner Solar System in 1986, it will be visible again from Earth sometime in 2061.

• Your heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30.

• It is because of the Sun & Moons gravity that we have high & low tides.

• Mt Everest is the highest mountain on earth; its peak reaches 8,848 metres (29028 feet) above sea level.

• The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the largest living structure in the world.

• Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike humans who have most on their tongue.

• Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.

• The largest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean.

• Flying in a V formation allows birds to fly further.

• Bulls are colour blind, so they can’t distinguish between colours.