Useless facts

The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.

The Eiffel tower in France varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches.

There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.

King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.

Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.

Sweden has the least number of murders annually.

The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.

Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.

Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet (2 m) 2 inches (5 cm) tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.

At -40 degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

Haha. Wicked. Queen Victoria is a pothead!

I can vouch for this. I have no idea why the people of my country are so heavily into the donut scene.

my lense prescription is -4.25

haha...always good to know.

Isn't his body still on display somewhere? I seem to recall a picture of him in an open cupboard, complete with a wax head plus his real mummified head nearby.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Oh man! I HATE spiders, they give me the willies BIG TIME and I cannot imagine that I EVER ATE one. OMG, OMG, OMG


**** goes off in corner and rocks to forget spider thingie ******

Rose's Spidy Story:

I was on a second date with someone (who is now my ex) and we decided to have dinner at his house and watch a video. So we are sitting on the sofa (him on one side, me on the other) and watching this video when I see a little spider start to slide down a web thread from the ceiling about 1 foot from the front of me.

I had one of those button up the front shirts on that gapped just a little between the buttons and lo and behold a breeze blew through the window right at that moment and that damn spider blew right into that gap of my blouse!

Needless to say - I ran screaming into his bathroom and ripping my blouse off (buttons and all) along the way.

He had NO earthly idea what the problem was. As far as he knew I was some kind of nut case who liked to run screaming from rooms while ripping my clothes off. I spent about 5 minutes in the bathroom slapping my chest until I found the reminants of the smashed eight legged bugger when I heard a tentitive knock on the bathroom door -

"umm Rose, are you OK".
Yeah.
"Umm, what just happened".
I got a spider in my shirt.
"umm did you kill it?"
F**K YEAH.
"oh, too bad, do you know how long it took me to train it to do that?"

I hear spiders drink from your tear ducts while you sleep...


Don't you all feel just so much more comfortable now?

Siggy.

I am terrified of spiders, where did you hear this?

The really scary part about the 8 spiders........they are all tarantula's


The insect legs in the chocolate has gotta be false though.....most food items are allowed x amount of organic material...IE bugs...but 8 legs per bar?

That would be a shitload of bugs per vat of chocolate.

I'm not sure I buy the spider stats. What kind of dopey spider would wander into a slobbering human mouth? Are they falling off the ceiling? Wouldn't we wake up with the occasional spider leg between our teeth?

the atomic number of boron is 5 (I think, too lazy to look it up)

What's the atomic number of moron!?

-1, would you believe it!? See energy is information, and since morons actually manage to create and operate on wrong information they have negative information or negative energy density, and thus a negative rest mass. Morons made of exotic matter!

I consider spiders to be my friends. I never kill a spider or usher them out of my house. I look at it this way. Spiders eat bugs. So if there is a spider in my house, he's gotta be eating something to live. If I kill him, then whatever he is eating will just multiply.

I had a huge spider living in my bathroom for about six months. Every morning he would be up in the corner in his web. He was about the size of a quarter. I was kind of sad when he was gone. He must have patrolled the apartment because he would be gone from the bathroom for a day or two every so often, but he always came back. Until one day he didn't. (I guess it was more likely a she.)

As for the original facts, if you are overweight and have cramps, I wonder how many calories you would burn at -40 while smoking pot? It could be a movement.

The word facetious contains all of the vowels in alphabetical order.

I made it up - but if you say it with authority people beleive you , and get really creeped out at night.

i wonder who has more fun, siggy with his antics, or jon watching and following closley in his path of destruction.

HULK SMASH!