This document contains a collection of trivial facts and useless information on various topics including bodily functions, animals, insects, world facts, survival tips, inventions from the UK, lucky people, original names of celebrities, and random numbers and statistics. The facts provided are very minor details that do not have significant meaning or importance.

1. TRIVIAL FACTS With acknowledgement to ‘That Book’, by Mitchell Symons SLIDEAS!

2. USELESS FACTS Twins are born less frequently in the East of the world than the West Margaret Thatcher is honorary Vice President of Blackburn Rovers FC Children born in May are on average 200g heavier than babies born in any other month Cheese is the oldest man-made food

3. USELESS FACTS By the age of 20, most humans have lost 20% of their sense of smell Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female ones The names of all the continents end with the same letter they start with The ant always falls onto its right side when drunk

4. USELESS FACTS The word ‘four’ is the only number whose number of letters equals the number… The sun contains 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system… The name for fear of long words is… ..hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

5. USELESS FACTS The opposite sides of a dice always total 7 Qatar has the shortest national anthem – 32 seconds Greece has the longest – 158 verses All the clocks in the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ say 4.20

6. SOME FATHERS… Rachel Weisz’s dad invented the artificial respirator Nicolas Parson’s GP dad delivered Margaret Thatcher

7. WORDS… The word ‘bigwig’ takes its name from Louis XIV of France who used to wear…big wigs ALMOST is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in correct alphabetical order According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word ‘set’ has the most meanings: 192 ‘ Screeched’ is the longest 1-syllable word in English

8. WORDS… If you mouth the word ‘colourful’ to someone, it looks like you are saying ‘I love you’ ‘ Check mate’ comes from the persian ‘shah mat’, meaning ‘the king is dead’ ‘ WD’ in WD-40 stands for ‘water displacer’ A ‘jiffy’ is a proper time unit – 1/100ths of a second

9. FALSE WORDS… A firefly… is a beetle The funny bone…is a nerve 10 gallon hats…hold 6 pints Rice paper…contains no rice French fries…originated in Belgium

10. FALSE WORDS… Glow worms…are beetles Turkish baths…originated in Rome Koala bears…are marsupials Catgut…is made from sheep

11. BODILY FUNCTIONS The human sneeze travels at 100 mph The average person sleeps for 25 years in their lifetime Adult humans have 206 bones.. ..a quarter of which are in the feet

12. BODILY FUNCTIONS The average person is a quarter of an inch taller at night The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue On average, right handed people live 9 years longer than left handed people

13. BODILY FUNCTIONS We shed an average of 40lbs of dead skin in our lifetime Our eyes don’t freeze in very cold weather because of the salt in our tears The average person has 100,000 hairs on their head

14. BODILY FUNCTIONS The brain weighs 3lbs, but uses 20% of our blood and oxygen Pain travels through the body at 350 ft per second The tongue is the only muscle in the body that is attached at only one end

15. Cut an onion in half, rub it on the sole of your foot, and an hour later you’ll taste onion in your mouth Chewing gum while peeling onions will stop you crying BODILY FUNCTIONS

16. Fingernails grow almost 4 times faster than toenails A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals in the body, programmed to cause relaxation BODILY FUNCTIONS

17. Italy’s national flag was designed by Napoleon Disneyworld is larger than the world’s 5 smallest countries WORLD FACTS

18. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end, because of the rate of reproduction WORLD FACTS

19. If the Antarctic ice melted, the ocean level would rise 250 feet, and 25% of the world’s land surface would be flooded Bagpipes were introduced into Scotland by the Romans WORLD FACTS

20. The official sport of Texas is rodeo The official sport of Alaska is dog mushing Niagara Falls is retreating 2.5ft each year The first city to reach 1 million population was Rome – in 133 BC WORLD FACTS

21. The coldest temperature recorded on Earth was in 1983 at Vostok, Antarctica – the temperature was -129F (-89C) At sea level, looking to the horizon, you can see about 2.5 miles. At 300 ft you can see about 23 miles… WORLD FACTS

22. Buttons on men’s jacket sleeves were originally to prevent manservants wiping their noses on their sleeves GROSS OR WHAT

23. GROSS OR WHAT The average person eats eight spiders in his or her lifetime, whilst asleep at night!! Walt Disney had wooden teeth

24. GROSS OR WHAT A cockroach can live for several weeks after being decapitated

25. There isn’t a single reference to the cat in the Bible Polar bears can smell a human being from over 20 miles away Tigers have striped skin, as well as striped fur Turtles can breathe through their bottoms ANIMALS

26. A bird has to fly at a minimum of 11 mph to keep airborne An iguana can hold its breath for 28 minutes Honeybees maintain a temperature of 94 degrees F in their hive all the year round Most adult elephants weigh less than the tongue of the Blue Whale ANIMALS

27. The Arctic Tern makes the longest annual migration – from pole to pole and back: 21,750 miles The earthworm has 5 hearts Owls cannot swivel their eyes – but they can rotate their heads through 270 degrees Chocolate and avocado are toxic for parrots and can be fatal ANIMALS

28. The shark is immune to every known disease and never gets sick The koala bear is the only animal other than humans to have fingerprints ANIMALS

29. The house fly ‘hums’ in the key of F Gram for gram, the bumblebee is 150 times stronger than an elephant A bee is more likely to sting you on a windy day The bee’s hum is due to its wingbeat INSECTS

30. The mayfly only lives for 1 hour A butterfly tastes with its feet as well as its mouth INSECTS

31. If chased by a crocodile, run in a ziz zag fashion; though fast, crocs cannot easily change direction Red cars are most frequently involved in accidents Don’t barbecue with pine wood – it gives off toxic resins SURVIVAL TIPS

32. To prevent sinking on quicksand, lie on your back with your feet off the ground SURVIVAL TIPS

33. Nuclear submarines Credit cards The Miss World contest Teabags The frisbee Parking meters Lego The Eurovision Song Contest 1950s saw the following invented:

34. The match The lawn mower The postage stamp The piggy bank The locomotive The computer The bicycle The UK gave the world…

35. The glider The pneumatic tyre Linoleum The stapler The electric light The vending machine Colour photography The UK gave the world…

36. Car disc brakes The telephone booth The thermos flask The vacuum cleaner Stainless steel The turbojet The integrated circuit The UK gave the world…

37. The decompression chamber The loudspeaker The food processor The hovercraft CAT scanners Acrylic paint Test tube babies Genetic fingerprints The UK gave the world…

38. Sor bits (Danish mints) Krapp (Scandinavian toilet paper) Moron (Italian wine) Mukki (Italian yoghurt) Plopp (Swedish toffee bar) Bum (Turkish biscuits) Bum bum (French ice lolly) Zit (Greek fizzy drink) Bimbo (South American Bread) Genuine products…

39. These people all have something lucky in common: Clint Eastwood Bobby Charlton Yasser Arafat Liz Taylor Peter Snow David Coulthard Lucky people

40. Patrick Swayze Sting Luciano Pavarotti Rowan Atkinson Brian Blessed….. … have all survived a plane crash! Lucky people

41. Sol Campbell (one of 10 children) Mel Gibson (11) Brian Lara (11) Dolly Parton (12) Richard Burton (13) Charles Bronson (15) Sonny Liston (25) Big families

42. Reginald Dwight is Elton John Vincent Furnier is Alice Cooper Enrique Morales is Ricky Martin Natalie MacIntyre is Macy Gray Original names

43. Paul Hewson is Bono Jim Moir is Vic Reeves Barry Pincus is Barry Manilow Ralph Lifshitz is Ralph Lauren Original names

44. Brian Warner is Marilyn Manson Orville Burrell is Shaggy William Bailey is Axl Rose Caryn Johnson is Whoopi Goldberg Original names

45. William Broad is Billy Idol Marvin Aday is Meatloaf Marie Lawrie is Lulu Thomas Woodward is Tom Jones Original names

46. Demetria Guynes is Demi Moore Harry Webb is Cliff Richard Joyce Frankenberg is Jane Seymour Maurice Micklewhite is Michael Caine Original names

47. Declan McManus is Elvis Costello Julia Wells is Julie Andrews James Osterburg is Iggy Pop Steveland Judkins is Stevie Wonder Original names

48. Gordon Sumner is Sting David Cook is David Essex Diane Hall is Diane Keaton Louis Firbank is Lou Reed Original names

49. The following all had trials for the following football clubs…. Could’v’been…

50. Sir David Frost (Nottingham Forest) David Essex (Leyton Orient) The Duke of Westminster (Fulham) Des O’Connor (Northampton Town) Stan Boardman (Liverpool) Angus Deayton (Crystal Palace) Stuart Hall (Crystal Palace) Gordon Ramsay (played twice for Rangers) Could’v’been…

51. Kit Kats eaten every second in UK – 47 Barbie dolls sold every hour around the world – 25,000 The speed, in mph, of a typical sneeze – - 100 Guess the number…

52. Places in USA called ‘Paradise’ – 94 Books abandoned on London Underground every year – 20,000 Questions per day asked by average 4-year old – 43 Length of blood vessels in a human body - 60,000 miles Guess the number…

53. Americans claiming to have been abducted by aliens – 3.7 million Percentage of world’s population that has never made a telephone call – 75 Distance QE2 moves for every gallon of fuel burned – - 6 inches Guess the number…

54. Number of minutes spent eating per day by the average adult – 77 How many inches bamboo can grow in 1 day – 36 Percentage of people who, asked to try out a new pen, write their own name – - 97 Guess the number…

55. Weight that can be supported by a single strand of hair – - 3 kg Length a mole can tunnel in a single night - 220 ft Longest sentence in literature – - 823 words (in ‘Les Miserables’) Guess the number…

56. Percentage of Americans who have a passport 20% Percentage of salt in seawater 3.5% The dodo became extinct in 1681 Guess the number…

57. Shortest inter-continental flight 20 minutes (Gibraltar & Tangier) The speed a spaceship must travel to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull 17 miles per second Guess the number…

58. Average traffic speed (mph) in London – 12 (same as 100 years ago) Passengers passing through Heathrow each year – 63 million Percentage of world species that once existed but are now extinct – - 99 Guess the number…