I’ve been infected with that same disease I get every year at this time. It always seems to take me by surprise which I don’t really understand.  It’s a deceptive little virus that kind of sneaks up on me . . . it’s called Spring Fever. All I really give a damn about is getting out of the house, standing in fresh air, feeling the sun on my face, and being able to walk along a beach.  Is it any wonder why I can’t seem to concentrate on anything else?

I’ve been doing a lot of internet surfing and perusing through my collection of books recently and have happened upon a huge steaming pile of ridiculously stupid trivia that anyone in their right mind could care less about. That’s the reason I decided to share it with you.

These tidbits are in no particular order of importance, just a whole lot of true nonsense.

• Odds of being killed in a tornado – 1 in 2 million.
• You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
• Odds of being killed by falling out of bed – 1 in 2 million.
• It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
• On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds Big Mac bun.

Did you ever think you’d see the day when someone would count the seeds on a Big Mac, then put that info on the Net where I could find it and pass it on to you.  It must be fate.

• In the past year your hair will most likely have grown 12 cm and your nail about 4 cm.
• There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
• Odds of being killed by a dog – 1 in 700,000.
• World population has grown by around 76,570,430 since your last birthday. In the time it takes you to read this another five babies will have been born.
• 13 people are killed each year by vending machine’s falling on them.

Stay alert when you assaulting your next vending machine. They’ll get you if your not careful.

• Odds of being killed by poisoning – 1 in 86,000.
• 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.
• If you counted 24 hours a day, you would be over 31,000 years old when you reach one trillion.
• Odds of being killed in a car crash – 1 in 5,000.
• There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

This should help all of you to really enjoy that next hot cup of morning chemicals.

• If you played all of the Beatles’ singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes.
• Odds of dying while in the bath tub – 1 in 1 million.
• Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
• The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.
• Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.

I guess all the propaganda we’ve heard for years about the safety of air travel is true.  The odds are certainly better than those for car accident deaths.

• Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.
• The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.
• 1/3 of all cancers are sun related.
• If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
• Airbags explode at 200 miles per hour.

Let’s hope none of us have to experience an airbag situation.  They can keep you alive during a collision and then break your damn neck at the same time.

Twenty-nine more useless facts you can use to win bar bets.