Today is the day for weird shit. I’ve always been a huge fan of it and I’m about to pass a little of it your way. See what you think!
The average 200-pound human carries between two and six pounds of bacteria.
It would take over one million mosquitos to drain the blood from a single human being.
A chicken (Mike the Headless Chicken) once survived almost two years after having its head cut off. He became famous and toured the country. He was fed through an eyedropper.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
You can generally tell the color of a chicken’s eggs by the color of its ears.
The Absolute Weirdest
A substance secreted from a beaver’s anal gland is used in artificial vanilla flavoring.
The horned lizard can shoot blood from its eyes as a defense mechanism.
Female Koalas have two vaginas.
Marijuana and the hops for making beer come from the same plant family (Cannabaceae).
When a worker bee mates with the queen bee, its penis explodes.
The animal with the longest hibernation period is the frog.
The average weight of a cumulus cloud is 1.1 million pounds. Water vapor is quite heavy.
Almost 90% of all humans on earth live in the northern hemisphere.
There is a species of turtle that can breathe through its butt.
There are more bacteria cells in the human body than actual human cells. Some scientists believe as many as ten times more.
I think I’ll start your week with a few items of truly useless information. You can never have enough of this wonderful stuff and I intend to keep shoveling it your way until I run out. So sit back in your seat and enjoy.
Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on TV.
Malaria mosquitoes are attracted to ripe Limburger cheese and smelly feet.
A fetus acquires fingerprints by the end of the first trimester.
Every 20 minutes the world population increases by 3500.
Toilet paper was invented by the Chinese in 1391 for the exclusive use by the emperor.
The two robbers crucified next to Jesus were Dismas and Gestas.
Disney World in Orlando, Florida, covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles).
Butterflies are cannibals.
Tigers have striped skin under their hair but zebra’s don’t.
Monkeys have no feet, they are classified as four-handed.
Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, leeches and maggots are categorized as medical devices.
You can in fact get cooties. Cooties are lice.
Poison Ivy is a member of the Cashew family.
In late 1600’s Puritan society, a child over 16 years old convicted of cursing at a parent was sentenced to death.
E T A O I N S H R D L U C M F G Y P W B V K X J Q Z: The alphabet in order of its frequency of use in written English
Well, there you have it. See just how many useless facts you were unaware of. As a reminder, I get a ten percent of all bar bet winnings. Just so you know.
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