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Post by dreamer on Nov 26, 2011 13:42:13 GMT -5
Amaze your friends by knowing a lot of useless information.
Please feel free to share your own favorite trivia tidbit to this thread.
Enjoy!
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Post by dreamer on Nov 26, 2011 13:43:03 GMT -5
An "Extreme Gulp" drink sold at 7-11 convenience stores has twice as much liquid as the average human stomach can hold.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 27, 2011 5:02:56 GMT -5
The human brain stops growing at the age of eighteen.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 28, 2011 2:48:42 GMT -5
Office desks have 400 times more bacteria than toilet seats.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 28, 2011 2:49:28 GMT -5
The acid in your stomach is so powerful that it can dissolve a razor blade in less than a week.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 28, 2011 2:50:35 GMT -5
A person can live without eating for weeks, but will only survive eleven days without sleep.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 28, 2011 2:51:18 GMT -5
A cockroach can survive for several weeks with no head.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 29, 2011 2:26:17 GMT -5
Long-term lice infestation of humans can result in what's known as secondary sensitization, or a feeling of apathy, pessimism or irritability, hence the term, "feeling lousy."
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Post by dreamer on Nov 29, 2011 2:26:52 GMT -5
Ten percent of Americans between eighteen and twenty-four can't find the United States on a blank world map.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 29, 2011 2:27:28 GMT -5
Occupational fraud schemes are most commonly committed by the accounting department or upper management.
Executive frauds are particularly costly, resulting in a median loss of $850,000.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 29, 2011 2:28:04 GMT -5
Experts estimate that more than 21 billion diapers are dumped into U.S. landfills each year.
Plastics used in many disposable diapers can take hundreds of years to degrade, and the by-products of that breakdown can seep into the soil and create hazards to public water supplies.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:32:46 GMT -5
By law, all citizens must take a bath at least once a year in Kentucky.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:33:23 GMT -5
Ursodiol, a compound made from bear bile, is used in Western medicine to dissolve gall stones and treat cirrhosis of the liver.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:33:58 GMT -5
Eight of every ten e-mails sent world-wide are spam. Americans companies lose an estimated $22 billion annually in time spent deleting junk e-mail.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:34:29 GMT -5
The drive-through line on opening day of a new McDonald's in Kuwait City, Kuwait reached seven miles long at times.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:35:01 GMT -5
In South Korea in 2005, a twenty-eight year old man died from a heart attack brought on by exhaustion from playing a video game online for fifty straight hours.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:35:37 GMT -5
The TV viewing habits of millions of Americans fit the criteria for substance abuse, with numerous similar dependency symptoms, such as:
inability to control viewing
using TV as a sedative
feeling lack of control while watching
angry feelings for watching too much television
and being upset when unable to watch.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:36:14 GMT -5
More fast-food employees were murdered on the job in 1998 than police officers. An average of four to five fast-food workers are killed every month, usually during robberies, as fast food is largely a cash business and most restaurants have large amounts on site at any given time.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:36:44 GMT -5
Roughly 100 people die every year by choking on ball-point pens.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:37:12 GMT -5
Thanks to technology like TV screens in grocery stores and airports, cell phone videos, and digital movie libraries, the average American sees sixty-one minutes of ads and promotions on television every day.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:37:44 GMT -5
A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine estimates that hospitals make preventable medical errors that kill as many as 98,000 people each year- more than cancer, AIDS, and auto accidents.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:38:18 GMT -5
In 1990, a sixty-three year old Tennessee woman went in for exploratory surgery on what doctors thought was a tumor on her buttock.
They were wrong: the "tumor" was a four inch pork chop bone, which doctors estimated had been in place for five to ten years, but had not caused the woman any pain due to her obesity.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:38:48 GMT -5
If you wear a ring, the number of germs living beneath it could be as high as the entire population of Europe.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:39:20 GMT -5
A sneeze expels germ-filled droplets up to thirty feet. The water content of the droplets evaporates quickly, but thousands of virus cells remain suspended in the air and can infect others.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 5:39:53 GMT -5
A rat can compress it's body to fit through an opening as small as a half-inch in diameter, making it almost impossible to rat-proof a building or home.
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