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LA : Short and Sweet
Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”
WOW! I have a hard time remembering the person I just met’s name. LA sounds a lot better. You can totally tell that a hispanic person named that city giving it a first name, a middle name, a last name, it’s mother’s maiden name, the grandmother’s maiden name and the neighbor’s mother’s maiden name. Geez.
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2 Niagara Falls
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
I’m not making this up, look it up.
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3 China’s Population
If the population of China walked past you in a single file line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
I am speechless.
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4 A-Z
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
I’ll wait while you try to remember it. You’ll be back tomorrow to look at it again. You know what? Just write it down cause you’re not going to remember it.
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5 This is your new baby, I think?
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily, on average!
I know what a lot of you must be thinking….. that this explains a lot!
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6 Wendy
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
I want to invent a name that people will start giving their children.
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7 Are you in Heat?
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Very strange. Let’s just be glad that this is not the case for us because women would be dying every 3 seconds.
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8 Scorpion + Alcohol = ?
If you pour a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
I want to meet the person who discovered this? The same goes for the person who discovered that snails can sleep for three years. Who has that kind of time?
Thank you man with chocolate bar. Now the whole world can have hot food in three minutes or less. Why didn’t this man get the Nobel Prize?
I guess this makes everyone allergic to peanuts.
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11 Can I Be Your Neighbor?
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
Still doesn’t explain why he liked to play with puppets.
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12 Scissors
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
I bet you use this one at work tomorrow.
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13 Red Light! Green Light?
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
No wonder we die so young.
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14 Five Dollar Bill
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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15 Did I swim by that rock already?
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
All they really need to know is to swim. It’s not like they need to remember what their name is, or how many calories are in those flakes they eat.
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16 Franklin Roosevelt
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
I bet you’re also thinking, “I didn’t know that that was Franklin Roosevelt on the dime?” Am I right?
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17 Tear Free Gum
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
This is something that every at home mother needs to know.
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18 Born in the USA
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
Was this CD really ever on high demand to have it pressed first before Pink Floyd or Rush?
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19 You Disgust Yourself
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
This one Speaks for itself.
Written by theothermother from www.ranker.com/list/19-random-useless-facts-or-useless-knowledge-you-need-to-know/theothermother
