Utterly Useless Facts

...because Flare believes in education!

1. For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
2. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
3. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
4. If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
5. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
6. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
7. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
8. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
9. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
10. There are more chickens than people in the world.
11. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
12. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
13. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
14. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
15. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
16. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
17. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
18. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
19. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
20. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.