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Useless Trivia!!!

These types of facts always entertain me!!
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

  • Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

  • In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."

  • Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate

  • A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

  • The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.

  • There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.

  • Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

  • An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

  • A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

  • More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.

  • Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

  • In England, in the 1880s, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

  • Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

  • The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grape juice.

  • The average person laughs 13 times a day.

  • Dogs can hear sounds that you can't.

  • Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

  • It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

  • Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words - none of them with the letter E.

  • Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

  • In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds.

Posted Monday Oct 13