Did you know? Fun, but useless facts

• There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
• The Electric Mountain water power station in Wales can go from 0 to 1800 Megawatts in just 12 seconds.
• Cats can produce over 100 different sounds, while dogs can only produce about 10.
• If the sun was made out of coal, and still burned with its current power, it would only have enough fuel to burn for 4700 years.
• According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
• The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around 2 dollars worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
• Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
• The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph.
• Spider webs are so strong, that a wire as thick as a pencil could stop a jet plane.
• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
• The Sanskrit word for "war" translates directly as "desire for more cows."
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• Over half of Ireland's milk production is used to make Baileys.
• There are only 18 countries wealthier than Bill Gates.
• The chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its own body.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks. Otherwise it would digest itself.
• Ducks will only lay eggs in the morning.
• The slogan on New Hampshire's license plates is "Live free or die". However, these license plates are fabricated in the Concord State Prison.
• The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.
• The Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
• White phosphor ignites at a temperature lower than skin temperature. Holding it in your hands causes it to ignite.
• In Alaska, it is illegal to feed any form of alcoholic beverage to a moose, unless that moose is on private property, and will be until it is fully sober again.
• Anablepophobia is the fear of being in tall buildings.
• Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
• The speed record on the surface of the moon is 17 kilometers per hour, by a moon cart.
• The total weight of all bugs on planet Earth is about 12 times as much as the total weight of all humans.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.


• The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
• In the middle ages, even animals were tried for Witchcraft. The hanging of cows was not unusual.