here are some useless fact to annoy/amaze your friends with
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which
are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards,
and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
All porcupines float in water.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
yore when the engines were pulled by horses.
The horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called "American Pie."
(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times,
but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more,
so it ends up on the bottom.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh
Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's
"Its A Wonderful Life."
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once,
on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby.
It was mentioned once in the first episode on their
radio's newscast about the wreck.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
