Useless Facts

[Cody]

<font color=e87400>Useless Facts!

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<li>Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food
<li>A ducks quack does not echo.
<li>Elephants are the only Mammals that can't jump.
<li>A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear
<li>A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
<li>A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
<li>Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
<li>The snail mates only once in it's entire life.
<li>You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.
<li>Some lions mate 50 times a day.
<li>All the swans in England are property of the Queen
<li>The infinite sign is called a lemniscate
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Edit, I guess not completely useless, I shoulda called this Funny Facts eh.

 

[Larry L.]

I hope I don't come back as a lion in my next life.

 

[Don.EMS]

A ducks quack is actually a series of echos spaced so close together that thay sound like one. I've been watching to much Myth Busters if I know that, must be time to do something.......naaaaaaa

 

[Cody]

<font color=e87400>More for ya

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<li>The smallest number spelled with an "a" in it is one thousand
<li>A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
<li>If you take any number between 1 & 9 and multipy them by 9 the sum of the two numbers will always be 9 (ex: 7 X 9 = 63 ; 6 + 3 = 9)
<li>Ronald Reagan married his first wife, Jane Wyman, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
<li>At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing
<li>The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth
<li>John Tyler, joined the Confederacy twenty after his Presidency, and became the only President named a sworn enemy of the United States
<li>Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.
<li>The phone number of the white house is: (202) 456-1414.
<li>The S in Harry S Truman stands for nothing.
<li>William Howard Taft had a bathtub that could hold four people installed in the white because he couldn't fit into the present one.
<li>Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
<li>Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
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[OrangeCrest]

Those are some interesting facts...