Useless Facts 2!

Mmm, more useless facts, especially dedicated to those who don't care for the hockey talk (posted below). Today is the last day I am on reception at work, thus an end to 7 hour days spent with my two electronic friends: phone and internet...I leave you with one last selection of useless facts:

• In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up but no channel 1.
• There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.
• In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least seven times.
• The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
• Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.
• There are at least a half-million more automobiles in Los Angeles than there are people.
• In the next seven days, roughly 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.
• A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor.
• Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
• The college degree is called a "Bachelor's" degree after the original meaning of bachelor which was a young apprentice.
• If a family had 2 servants or less in the U.S. in 1900, census takers recorded it as "lower middle-class."
• Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
• You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
• There are 26 calories in a Hershey Kiss.
• 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
• A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
• The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.
• Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.
• There are three times as many households in the United States without telephones as there are without television sets.
• The amount of tropical rain forest cut down each year is an area the size of Tennessee.
• The Amazon rain forest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
• Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
• Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
• Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830s it was sold as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of Tomato.
• The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.
• The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation"
• The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
• Ballroom dancing is a major at BrighamYoung University.
• M&M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
• The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WW II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
• A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.
• Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with "rejoice."
• Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
• A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.
• Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
• In India, a 9-year-old girl was "married" to a stray dog, which tribal custom requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gums
• One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
• The Canadian holiday Boxing Day got its name from the custom of giving. Servants were given boxes which had money hidden inside them from their employers. The servants would have to break the box into pieces to get the money.
• In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce.
• The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film, "You're in the Army Now." It lasted for three minutes and three seconds.
• 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
• 53% of women in America would dump their boyfriend if they did not get them anything for Valentine's Day.
• In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
• One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
• The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it
• More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times
• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA
• Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years