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I always like looking up unless (but interesting) facts. I tend to like knowing things that I don't really need to know. Like how long certain movies are, or what episode of South Park showed more than three of the main character's hair, or what have you. I am a useless but interesting fact fan. If that's even possible. Here are a collection of facts that I've looked up at various places and chosen at random.

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

The largest watermelon weighed 262 pounds. It was grown by Bill Carson of Arrington, Tennessee in 1990. (Reference: Guinness Book of Records)

The word "watermelon" first appeared in the English dictionary in 1615.

2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.

Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).

Adult movie star, Ron Jeremy, has a master's degree in Special Education.

When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny. When a male zebra and a female donkey mate the offspring is called a zedonk' or zebrass'. All of these resulting offspring are sterile (can't have babies).

No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it. (I pesonally would like to know how)

The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.

Dollar' is the most common currency name, followed by franc,' pound,' dinar,' peso,' and rupee.'

A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.

If you would like to make a Siberian happy, give him a horse-meat steak.

A black cow is a chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream. The term dates from the Roaring Twenties, although it also came to be used to describe a root beer float. Another term for a black cow was a mud fizz.

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker. It is not from China at all. Yet we all consider it Chinese.

Table salt is the only commodity that hasn't risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.

Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs.

Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda.

Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901

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