Useless facts you couldn't live without - not!

by prydwen

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

• There are more chickens than people in the world.

• Two-thirds of the world's aubergine is grown in New Jersey.

• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

• Almonds are a member of the peach family.

• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z; hence the name "OZ".

• John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.