So this is really just for fun. Useless facts that people may or may not know, feel free to add your own!

1. Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the U.S.

2. Beign unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years (better get on the ball guys if you want to live a little longer)

3. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria tahn a toilet ( I dont' want to know what's going on on those desks)

4. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge (I'll take their word for it b/c I'm not counting them)

5. Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motely Crew (didnt' they all look like ladies back then?)

6. Men are born unable to hear as well as women (well that expalins everything right there)

7. 96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Have a great Tuesday!!!

Found some:

0. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

1. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

4. The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

5. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

6. The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

7. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

8. Camel’s have three eyelids.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

10. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.

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3. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria tahn a toilet ( I dont' want to know what's going on on those desks)

I clean my desk with baby wipes on a weekly basis. Every Friday. I'm not that messy but there are people in my office that dont have boundaries for desks. And you can imagine what some people do behind closed doors on their desks. LOL

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7. 96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

I put the jelly on first

-Scientists say the higher your I.Q., the more you dream.

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest
is the male sperm.

-You use 200 muscles to take one step.

-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.

-A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.

-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the
Encyclopedia Britannica.

-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of
the liver than men with hair.

-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single
cell.

-There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of
water to a boil.

-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.

-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.

-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they
do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

-Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

The length of your arm from elbow to wrist is the actual size of your foot.

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-Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

i just put my thumb up to my nose -- sigh.
anyone else do it too?

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Originally posted by LaurieDorey:

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-Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

i just put my thumb up to my nose -- sigh.
anyone else do it too?

No but here I am trying to get my leg up to check out the foot arm thing...ouch....


-People who spend time reading lists of useless facts on forums need to get laid.

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Originally posted by My 3 boys:
The length of your arm from elbow to wrist is the actual size of your foot.

maybe if you are a clown and you have your big red shoes on...

Wow HB are you trying to tell us all something.

Well I took my shoe off and my foot is the same length as my arm from elbow to wrist...I only wear a size 7

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Originally posted by My 3 boys:
Wow HB are you trying to tell us all something.

It was more an offering of services....

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Originally posted by My 3 boys:
Well I took my shoe off and my foot is the same length as my arm from elbow to wrist...I only wear a size 7

Actually the fact is that your foot is the same length as the back of your neck...are you able to check that...

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Originally posted by My 3 boys:
Well I took my shoe off and my foot is the same length as my arm from elbow to wrist...I only wear a size 7

really? i am 5/7" and wear 9 or 9.5 and my foot is a good 3-4 inches shorter than the elbow/wrist distance.

and um, HB... you are currently geographically undesirable - perhaps this summer you can rent an RV and tour the mainland sharing the love...

The back of your neck huh...why do I have a feeling this is a set up waiting to happen. I might be able to check that one out in yoga class later.

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Originally posted by My 3 boys:
The back of your neck huh...why do I have a feeling this is a set up waiting to happen. I might be able to check that one out in yoga class later.

They also say that you could get a false reading with only one foot...
So it's best to put both back there....you know so can get an accurate measument...

I'll keep that in mind

After a study of fast food chains, it was determined that, on average, there is about 10x more bacteria in the ice machine than in the toilets.

Also.....a little known fact about Down Syndrome. 80% of children born with Down Syndrome are born to women under the age of 30.