Useless but interesting facts

Useless facts are sometimes more interesting than useful facts. For instance, people spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights and a snail can sleep for three years. This is more interesting than most of the stories on the news last night. Do you agree?
More useless info:
- - Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
- - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
- - People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
- - Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
- - Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
- - If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world’s currency would be held by 6 people.
- - In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
- - A snail can sleep for three years.
- - In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
- - Pearls melt in vinegar.
- - Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- - Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- - You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
Source: stunning-stuff.com




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