I think it’s time for another installment of what this blog is all about,  everyuselessthing. It’s a few of those less than important facts you’ve never known you wanted to know. I have a lot more free time this week since my better-half left Maine for vacation in Delaware. Why Delaware? Who knows, maybe she’s attracted to the second-rate beaches and the throngs of uninteresting people.  Things are beautifully quiet here and my time is my own at least for the next four days. The cat and I have settled in rather easily as two lone bachelors.

So lets kick this off right now with a load of these odd, weird, and true facts.

Enjoy.

• Dean Martin, born Dino Crocetti, boxed under the name Kid Crochet as a teenager.
• A fully mature oak tree sheds around seven hundred thousand leaves every year.
• Banging your head against the wall burns 150 calories an hour.
• The storage capacity of the human brain exceeds four terrabytes.
• The average talker sprays about three hundred microscopic saliva drops per minute – about two and a half droplets per word.

Not bored yet?  Keep reading, I’m not nearly finished.

• Societies in ancient Rome, Germany, and China used urine as a mouthwash.
• It takes only seven pounds of pressure to rip off your ear.
• The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans by ten to one.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• The par for the world’s largest golf hole – the 909 yard seventh hole on Japan’s Sano golf course – is seven.

Now lets look into the wonderful and delicious world of food.

• Miss Piggy once said, “Never eat more than you can lift.”
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Pepper is the top selling spice in the world. The second is mustard.
• Bombay Duck is actually dry, salted fish.
• Tic Tac’s contain carnauba wax. The same ingredient found in car polishes.

And last but not least a few sexual tidbits.

• Humans spend two years of their lives making love.
• Four pope’s died while participating in sexual acts.
• Every year more than eleven thousand Americans hurt themselves trying out bizarre sexual positions.
• A real orgasm is said to burn 112 calories. A fake orgasm is said to burn off 315 calories.
• On average it takes two tablespoons of blood to make a man’s penis erect.

Do you feel any smarter than you did a few minutes ago?  If you do then I suspect you’re delusional or just kidding yourself.  It’s called useless information for a reason and it will have no redeeming social value whatsoever.

I’m almost sorry about that but not quite.