It’s once again time for me to justify this blog’s name. Here are twelve items of Useless Information that aren’t commonly known.
- Although the earth is 70% water, just 1% of it is considered drinkable.
- The first people to measure Mount Everest lied about tall it was. Their measurement was exactly 29,000 feet but they thought no one would believe it came to that exact measurement so they added two more feet to the total.
- The animal with the longest hibernation period is a frog.
- Every planet in the solar system could fit in the space between Earth and the moon even if you include Pluto.
- Neil Armstrong claims that he actually said, “That’s one small step for a man” when he landed on the moon.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger almost missed out on the title role in Terminator to none other than O.J. Simpson.
- The mask worn by Michael Myers in the Halloween series was actually a white plastic Captain Kirk mask.
- Bill Buckner had more career hits than Ted Williams.
- No one has ever recorded a perfect March Madness bracket.
- Cleopatra’s reign was closer to the date of the moon landings than the building of the pyramids.
- The United States government once poisoned beer during prohibition.
- The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Germany during World War II killed an elephant. It fell on the Berlin zoo.
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