Pointless Facts Thread

[passerby]

The average American watches 3 hours and 46 minutes of television a day...thats 52 days nonstop a year. By the age the 65 the average American has spent about 9 years of their life watching television.

 

[Griffin]

# Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

# Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other

 

[Griffin]

# The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb

# The human brain is 85% water

 

[Griffin]

People speak at a rate of about 120 words per minute

 

[Griffin]

The average person supposedly falls asleep in seven minutes

 

[Griffin]

the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet can not tan

 

[Griffin]

The resolving power of the human eye is 0.0003 of a radian or an arc of one minute (1/60th of a degree), which corresponds to 100 microns at 10 in. (confused yet?) A micron is a thousandth of a millimeter, hence 100 microns is 0.00397, or less than four thousandths of an inch, the human eye can detect a bright light shining through an aperture of only three or four microns

 

[passerby]

Number of minutes per week that the average American child ages 2-11 watches television: 1,197

Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 38.5

 

[Hades]

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

That gives "Say hello to my little friend" new meaning.

 

[passerby]

Number of TV commercials seen in a year by an average child: 30,000

Number of TV commercials seen by the average American by age 65: 2 million

 

[Griffin]

Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart

 

[Griffin]

# Your fingers can detect a vibration with a movement of 0.02 of a micron

# The loudest snore ever recorded is 87.5 decibels

# The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day

# One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

 

[Griffin]

The septum linguae is located on the tongue

 

[passerby]

Chewing gum everyday will make you live 3 % longer

 

[Griffin]

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age

 

[Griffin]

More people are killed annually by donkeys than are killed in airplane crashes

 

[Griffin]

# The smelliest animal in the world is the Zorilla, it can discharge a nauseous fluid from it's anal glands which can be smelled over a radius of half a mile

# Crickets hear through their knees

# A female ferrit is known as a "jill"

# Butterflies taste through their feet

# The donkey gets its name from "key" meaning color, and "dung"

# An Ostrich's eye is larger than it's brain

 

[Griffin]

# Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

# Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten

 

[Griffin]

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

 

[Griffin]

It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky

 

[Griffin]

A dragonfly has a life-span of 24 hours

 

[Griffin]

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

 

[Griffin]

The average flight speed of a house fly is five miles an hour

 

[Griffin]

Stan, the first Spanish dog ever fitted with contact lenses, was hit by a car the day after he was fitted with them

 

[Griffin]

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.