Useless Knowledge 2015 – Langwinska Dentistry

Useless knowledge for week of July 13, 2015

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.
A Flemish artist is responsible for the world’s smallest paintings in history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted onto a grain of corn.

Useless knowledge for week of July 6, 2015

Camel’s milk does not curdle.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
Flies jump backwards during takeoff.
Polar bears are left-handed.

Useless knowledge for week of June 29, 2015

Rats and horses can’t vomit.
Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.
Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
About seven million cars are junked each year in the U.S.
A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal’s constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.

Useless knowledge for week of June 22, 2015

All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.
Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA level C.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour.

Useless knowledge for week of June 15, 2015

Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
All porcupines float in water.
Ever wonder where the phrase two bits came from? Some coins used in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War were Spanish dollars, which could be cut into pieces, or bits. Since two pieces equaled one-fourth dollar, the expression two bits came into being as a name for 25 cents.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th, which occurs one to three times a year.

Useless knowledge for week of June 8, 2015

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.

Useless knowledge for week of June 1, 2015

About seven million cars are junked each year in the U.S.
Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.
Rats and horses can’t vomit.
The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

Useless knowledge for week of May 25, 2015

Flies jump backwards during takeoff.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Camel’s milk does not curdle.
A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal’s constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.

Useless knowledge for week of May 18, 2015

A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.
The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

Useless knowledge for week of May 11, 2015

The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.

Useless knowledge for week of May 4, 2015

A group of hares is called a Husk.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.

Useless knowledge for week of April 27, 2015

Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
In New York State, it is illegal to buy any alcohol on Sundays before noon.
98% of Japanese are cremated.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

Useless knowledge for week of April 20, 2015

People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
Earthworms have 5 hearts.
Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.

Useless knowledge for week of April 13, 2015

The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
11% of the world is left-handed.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
It is impossible to drown and not die. Technically the term ‘drowning’ refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
“Duff” is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.

Useless knowledge for week of April 6, 2015

An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.

Useless knowledge for week of March 30, 2015

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

Useless knowledge for week of March 23, 2015

In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Starfish have no brains.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Useless knowledge for week of March 16, 2015

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
1 in 5 of the world’s doctors are Russian.
Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Useless knowledge for week of March 9, 2015

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won’t.
More people speak English in China than the United States.
Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
During it’s lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.

Useless knowledge for week of March 2, 2015

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
99% of the solar system mass is concentrated in the sun.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The Amazon is the world’s largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

Useless knowledge for week of February 23, 2015

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second.
At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Useless knowledge for week of February 16, 2015

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months, 11 days.
California consumes more bottled water than any other product.
In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a 100-yard course. The horse was given a head start.
A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.

Useless knowledge for week of February 9, 2015

Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Useless knowledge for week of February 2, 2015

Dartboards are made out of horse hairs.
In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
The human body is comprised of 80% water.
It is believed that Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

Useless knowledge for week of January 26, 2015

Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Camel’s have three eyelids.
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.

Useless knowledge for week of January 19, 2015

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.

Useless knowledge for week of January 12, 2015

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months, 11 days.
California consumes more bottled water than any other product.
In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a 100-yard course. The horse was given a head start.
A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.

Useless knowledge for week of January 5, 2015

In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second.
At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.