Pointless Facts Thread

[musclesforsupes]

my burrito had beans in it

 

[Lady Stormcrow]

When filming the spaghetti westerns, clint eastwood never once washed his poncho

 

[user123456789]

here's one:

jane fonda had threesome

 

[Superman79]

The rueben sandwich was created in Nebraska...as was Kool-Aid

 

[Clobberin' Time]

Rotavator is the same word spelled backwards.

 

[kingman]

A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.

An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.

An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.

Average calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race: 10,000.

Average length of a coat hanger when straightened: 44 inches.

Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.

Average number of hummingbirds required to create the weight of 1 ounce: 18.

Average number of squirts from a cow's udder needed to yield a gallon of milk : 345.

 

[Equint77]

The first american beer brewery started in downtown Manhattan.

 

[DV8]

Al Pacino turned down the role of the dude in "Pretty Woman"

 

[kingman]

Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.

During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

In 1900 the average age at death in the US was 47.

It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be one pound.

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.

 

[Sensi]

the average raccoon weighs 21 pounds

 

[kingman]

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

The average capacity of a pelican's pouch is 12 quarts.

The average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids.

The average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year.

 

[Griffin]

Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas"

 

[Griffin]

Betty Boop is a red head. She appeared in her only colour cartoon, Cinderella, with red hair

 

[Griffin]

In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)

 

[Griffin]

In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.

 

[Griffin]

A Canadian invented the paint roller

 

[Griffin]

The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.

 

[Griffin]

15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toenails

 

[Griffin]

A Canadian was the creator of "Superman"

 

[Griffin]

Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area

 

[Griffin]

The full name for Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula

 

[passerby]

in 22 seconds Krispy Kreme can make enough donuts to stack as high as the Empire State building.

 

[Griffin]

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the worlds widest road

 

[Griffin]

There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower

 

[passerby]

There is no word in the human language that rhymes with "month"