I know some really useless stuff that has next to no practical application, and is highly redundant in nature.Much like windshield whippers on a ducks rear end. Here are some really, really crazy facts that you'll never use, except for possibly playing Jeopardy.

Betsy Ross was born with a full set of teeth.

Mark Twain born Samuel Clemens born and died during the visits of Hailey's Comet over the course of his lifetime.

Jellyfish and starfish have no brains.

You share your birthday with roughly ten million other people through out the world.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mothers maiden name.

President Eisenhower stipulated that one of every five miles of interstate highway system be straight.

A cat has 32 mussels in its ear, more than any other living creature.

It is calculated that if you where to pass enough gas on a regular interim basis non stop for just under seven years you'd produce enough gas to detente an atomic explosion roughly equal to that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

There are more chickens in the world than people.

Facial hair grows at twice the normal rate if at an altitude in access of 3 or more miles above sea level.

There are 293 way to make change for a dollar.

In Massachusetts it is Illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

The human finger nail has the same chemical composition as fly poop.

Venus is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise.

Females blink on average twice as much as males do.

The human genome share less than one third difference in DNA structure than dose lettuce.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language to end and start with the letters UND.

Ohio is technically supposed to be the 17th state in the union, however do to the fact that Congress forgot to ratify the bill Ohio ended up being 47th instead

On average approximately 65 people become millionaires

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the entire English language than any other word.

Zeuxis a famous Greek painter in the fifth century laterally laughed himself to death.

Dogs and cats like people use there hands, favor using one paw over the other

Right handed people live on average nine years longer then do people who use there left hand. (I'm a South Paw, Yikes)

The sentence the "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English alphabet

Typewriter is the longest word that spelled using the top of the top row of keys on a keyboard.

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