i found a lot of useless pieces of information on this one website. so i thought i might post them.
8,800 people hurt themselves whilst using toothpicks every year.
Cuba’s giant land crab can outrun a horse.
A bald-eagle’s nest can weigh up to two tonnes.
When hibernating, a woodchuck only breathes 10 times an hour but when awake it breathes 2100 times an hour.
The rhinoceros has nostrils that are bigger than its brain.
The Japanese eat 25,000 tonnes of fish a day.
The welwitschia (well-witch-eee-ahh) plant can live for 1000 years and it only has two leaves.
Ürümqi in China is the furthest city in the world from the sea being 2,414km from the coastline.
In the French village of Trie Sur Baise, there’s an annual competition where contestants have to do their best pig-squealing imitations.
A baby blue whale puts on 4kg of weight an hour.
The smallest people in the world are the pygmies from Mbutsi in Zaire. Their average male height is 137cm and the female height is 135cm.
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra in Austria play instruments made entirely out of vegetables.
In Hong Kong you can RENT a pet dog.
Statues of horsemen have hidden meanings: if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The main ingredient in Chinese bird’s nest soup is saliva.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Greek dramatist Aeschylus was once told by a prophet that he would die after receiving a blow from the heavens. This came true when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.
Ants never sleep.
The average person spends two years of their life on the phone.
Johnny Weissmuller who played Tarzan won five gold medals for swimming in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics.
Rabbits sleep 18 times a day.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Cockroaches fart every 15 minutes. [hahahahaha
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You blink 84 million times a year.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
The world’s total weight of ants is greater than that of any other animal.
A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the sun.
Hamsters only blink one eye at a time. [
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An average of 4000 people are injured by teapots every year.
Lightning strikes the Earth about 100 times a second.
Snails can live for three years without eating.
Moths don’t have a stomach.
The oceans have about nine million tonnes of gold dissolved in them.
Pepsi was originally called Brad’s Drink.
The average cob of corn has 800 kernels.
There is a 10 year old girl (as of 2001) in Brazil who is a professional soccer commentator.
The Cambodian alphabet has 56 letters in it.
In 1007 a Japanese woman wrote the first novel entitled The Tale of Genji.
The shortest ever war was between Zanzibar and England. After 38 minutes Zanzibar had surrendered.
Vikings used their enemy’s skulls as cups.
Tuna fish die if they stop moving.
A stegosaurus weighed 5900kg but its brains combined weighed 70g.
There are 336 dimples on a golf ball.
It takes one week to make a jelly bean.
Mexico once had three separate presidents in 24 hours.
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
The chances of getting two hole-in-ones in a round of golf is one in 67 million.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
In 1899 people thought that everything that could be invented already was.
Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. In English this mean “The City of Angels”.
In Britain there is a town called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. It is Welsh for “St Mary’s Church by the pool of the white hazel trees, near the rapid whirlpool, by the red cave of the church of St Tysilio. (The space in the middle is because of the limitations of the length of words when posting in threads, it isn't really there).
The can opener was invented 45 years after the tin can.
Cockroaches were on earth before dinosaurs.
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*wow a lot of random information, isnt it?
You actually read everthing in this thread and recorded the time? 
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Hey I've been looking in the website you said and it's quite scary actually 
It hurt!
