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Useless facts

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The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.

» The first TV couple to share a bed was not on "The Brady Bunch" or "The Munsters," but was on "The Mary Kay and Johnny" show in 1947. It was the first situation comedy ever.

» In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

» Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, in ceremonies opening the New York World's Fair in April 1939.

» The first television shows to have the characters take bathroom breaks were "All in the Family" and "Married with Children."

» The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.

» MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.

» The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."

» In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

» Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

» The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.

» It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

» Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

» It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

» The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

» The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

» Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

» When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.

» Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

» Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

» Children grow faster in the springtime.

» It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.

» Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

» Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

» There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

» If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

» The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

» Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

» In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

» An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

» The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.

» The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

» The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

» Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

» Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

» Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

» Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.

» After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.

» Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

» The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).

» A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.

» The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).

» 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

» The pancreas produces Insulin.

» The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.

» The human body is comprised of 80% water.

» The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

» Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

» The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

» You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.

» Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

» Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

» There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.

» The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.

» Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.

» During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

» Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

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» The giant squid, found usually in the deep reaches of the oceans, has the largest eye of any animal.

» There is a sea squirt found in the seas near Japan that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature, it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. So, waste not want not, it eats it.

» A male gypsy moth can smell a female gypsy moth in heat up to a mile and a half away.

» A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.

» 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

» The brown myotis bats when born are equivalent to a woman giving birth to a 30 pound baby.

» If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

» A snail can sleep for 3 years.

» Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

» The housefly hums, middle octave, key of F.

» A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.

» The correct animal group terms:
A herd of donkey
A sloth of bear
A clutter or clowder of cat
A drove or herd of cattle
A clutch or brood of chicken
A herd of deer
A pack of dogs
A brace or herd of ducks
A herd of elephant
A shulk of fox
A tribe or trip of goat
A flock or gaggle of geese
A herd of horses
A pride of lion
A band or troop of monkeys
A flock or drove of sheep
A bevy of swans
A litter of swine or pigs
A gam or pod of whale
A pack of wolves

» Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

» A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

» Rats can't vomit. That's why rat poison works so well.

» Giraffes have no vocal chords.

» Cats can hear ultrasound.

» A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

» Cat's urine glows under a black light.

» The largest known butterfly is Queen Alexandra's Birdwing from New Guinea, which has a wingspan of approximately 11 inches (28 cm).

» The smallest butterfly, the Dwarf Blue from Africa, has a wingspan of only 1 / 2 inches (1 cm).

» The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator in feet

» The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.

» The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

» The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the North Slope.

» An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

» The Hippopotamus does 80% of their vocalizations under water.

» The cells that make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

» Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of a species of super-flea; they are bigger than ****roaches and can jump 20 feet (6 m).

» Polar bears are left-handed.

» The average flea can jump up to 150 times its own length. To match that a human would have to jump 1,000 feet (305 m).

» A ****roach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.

» Butterflies taste with their feet.

» A cat has 32 muscles in each Ear.

» Starfish don't have brains.

» A hippo can run faster than a man can.