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Starting a thread to give you a
"Totally Useless Fact Of The Day"
(might come in handy playing Trivial Pursuit!) LOL
Here is today's useless fact:

In the blockbuster hit, E.T., the Extra Terrestrial (1982), Harrison
Ford was cast as the school principal, but his only scene was cut.
Director Steven Spielberg decided his presence in the film would be
too distracting. Ford's wife Melissa Mathison wrote E.T.'s screenplay.

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Thanks Jack, that WAS useless! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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It may be useless later... if I never have a reason to tell anyone. lol

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here's a tidbit that's useless , lol
I have never ever seen ET . hard to believe , hey ?
seen bit & pieces but never the whole thing . crazy . D

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I'm trying to think of another useless fact, but I can't come up with anything!
Okay, here's one: The song title, Mr. Mojo Risin", by the Doors, is an anagram of Jim Morrison's name.


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Today's useless fact:
In India it is perfectly proper for men to wear pajamas in public.
Pajamas are accepted as standard daytime wearing apparel.

But NOT in the United States, you got that, guys!?
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(By the way, cool bit of intormation Tater! Thanks!)
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Today's useless fact:
Playing cards were invented by the Chinese as early as 1120.

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Is this useless?
When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, Jimmy Page was left to honor theband's commitments, performing as The New Yardbirds. The groupeventually evolved into Led Zeppelin.

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Breezey, it's only useless if you aren't interested in the origin of one of the greatest rock bands in history!

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Here's another useless fact:
"The extra "Joker" card is believed to have been invented by AmericanEuchre players who, when modifying the rules sometime during the 1860s,decided that an extra trump card was required. Originally he was called"The Best Bower" and then later "The Jolly Joker"."


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See! ... You guys know some useless facts! LOL
Great additions! I did not know all of that!
Hey, who has that picture of the kitten being held up at gun point?
I lost it. Could have used it here:
The robbery phrase "Hands Up" originated in British Columbia. Bill
Miner, an American known as the Gentleman Bandit, is said to have
first used the phrase while robbing a Canadian Pacific Railways
train in Mission Junction, British Columbia in 1904.
Edit:
And thanks to Breezey's quick fingers ... here's a hold up:


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You mean this one? I found it by searching google images for "cat being robbed"!
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Thank you Breezey! And thanks to Tater, too.
That's the one I was looking for!
You guys are the best!
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Ahh, ya beat me to it Breezey!

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Of course I did! He's my kitty picture! lol
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It's a cute picture, but I bet PETA would be up in arms about it! Get it? "Up in arms"? [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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Today's trivial, useless fact:

The first letters of the months July through November,
in order, spell the name JASON.


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The Penny is the only coin currently minted in the United States with
a profile that faces to the right. All other coins - the silver dollar,
half dollar, quarter, dime, and nickel - all feature profiles that face
to the left.

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Crazy Superstitions:
FROG
A frog brings good luck to the house it enters.
The dried body of a frog worn in a silk bag around the neck averts epilepsy and other fits.

The dried body of a frog worn in a silk bag around the neck averts epilepsy and other fits.Not trying this!! No way, no how! lol

LOL ... Not up for a "frog necklace?"
(I have a feeling that would GIVE some people "fits!")

Jack, I never thought frogs were all THAT cute! lol

The world's first speed limit regulation
was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph!
(( Whoa! Slow down there! LOL ))
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First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer."

What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers
and laser printers all have in common?
All invented by women.
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Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour! (Oh my!)[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
* Just FYI ... read more here:

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Oliver Cromwell (born April 25, 1599 [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], died September 3, 1658 Old Style)
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The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander.
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A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.


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Taxi drivers in London, England are required to pass a training test based upon
"The Blue Book." Preparation for this test takes between two to four years.
Of ten who start, eight or nine drop out before completion.

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Apart from humans the only land animal that cries is the elephant.


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The first song played on Armed Forces Radio
during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.

A racehorse averages a weight loss of between 15 and 25 pounds during a race.

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On September 13, 1913, the famous Lincoln Highway,
the first paved transamerican highway,
was completed from New York to San Francisco.
Prior to it being built, there were almost no good roads to speak of in the
United States. The relatively few miles of improved road were only around
towns and cities. A road was "improved" if it was graded; travelers were
lucky to have gravel or brick. Most roads, though, were dirt. The Lincoln
Highway was the first major roadway constructed with the automobile in
mind. Later in 1928, thousands of Boy Scouts fanned out along the highway.
At an average of about one per mile, they installed small concrete markers
with a small bust of Lincoln and the inscription,
"This highway dedicated to Abraham Lincoln."

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A racehorse averages a weight loss of between 15 and 25 pounds during a race.

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An unusual eating disorder called tomatophagia -- but also known as pica --
is blamed on iron deficiency anemia. People with tomatophagia develop unusual
cravings for such things as tomatoes, ice, detergent, starch, clay, or even dirt.
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Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
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"Gone With the Wind" had the working titles
Tote the Weary Load and Ba! Ba! Black Sheep
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The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.


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Thinking that its parents were a camel and a leopard,
the Europeans once called the animal a "camelopard."
Today, it is called the giraffe.
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In ancient Egypt, you could be put to death for killing a cat.

There is a city in Norway called "Hell" [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.


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Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
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Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
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The average person will spend approximately
one year out of their lifetime doing this.
................. What is it?
Searching for lost or misplaced items.
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Try your best to ignore the very last couple of seconds. lolDownload:
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At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world.
It is three times the size of Texas.
By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.



There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle
to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.

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The Australian Brown Snake's venom is so powerful
that only 1/14,000th of on ounce is needed to kill a human being.

Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165 million years before they became extinct.
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Frogs may be hypnotised
by placing them on their back
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The Sanskrit word for 'war' means 'desire for more cows'. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to
Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its
heat to that of the sun from July 3 to August 11, creating
exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies
caniculares, or "days of the dog." [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

There are more species of fish
than mammals, reptiles and birds combined.
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As early as 1822, the postmaster in Washington, D.C. was worried by the amount
of extra mail at Christmas time. His preferred solution to the problem was to limit
by law the number of cards a person could send. Even though commercial cards
were not available at that time, people were already sending so many home-made
cards that sixteen extra postmen had to be hired in the city.

Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

In Alaska, it is legal to shoot a bear - but you'll break the law if you wake up a bear to take its photograph.
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Joe Namath,
one-time New York Jets quarterback,
donated pantyhose to Planet Hollywood.
He wore the pantyhose on the football
playing field on chilly days. Remember that
"famous" ad he did, years ago? (( LOL ))

Penguins can jump
as high as 6 feet in the air.
(They can also have lots of "attitude!" LOL)
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When a female horse and male donkey mate,
the offspring is called a mule, but when
a male horse and female donkey mate,
the offspring is called a hinny.
(A "hinny" ... LOL !!!)
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July 25th ...
Today in 1876, George Armstrong Custer and his army were completely wiped out by Lakota and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Known as Custer's Last Stand, it was one of the largest losses American
forces suffered during the push to settle the West in the 1800's.



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In Michigan, USA, it is illegal
to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.
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for a walk yesterday. I could have been in big trouble for leaving it
chained to the hydrant while I got it some food!!
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Unlike other four legged mammals,
kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

Twenty-three states in the U.S.
border an ocean.
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A seagull can drink salt water
because it has special glands
that filter out the salt.

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Cashew nuts are expensive,
and never have shells because
the shell and skin of the cashew nut
contains extremely caustic oil that can
painfully blister the skin.
This dangerous oil must be completely
removed before the nut can be
touched or eaten.

Fido, a name often given to pet dogs,
means faithful in Latin.
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There are more plastic flamingos
in America than real ones.

The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches
over the course of 3 consecutive leaps,
achieved in May 1977 by a South African
sharp-nosed frog called Santjie. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

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The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity
was born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.

Not sure this is "useless" ...
but it's interesing!
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Today (June 30th) in 1908, an explosion roughly 1000 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb rocked the area of Tunguska, Russia,
flattening trees for miles around. Although widely believed to be a
meteor impact, the lack of a crater or meteor fragments have kept the
exact nature of the blast a mystery.

When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats
caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that
kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses
clear of the real culprits, rats.
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A squirrel has no color vision.
It sees only in black and white.
Every part of its field of vision, however,
is in perfect focus, not just straight ahead,
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It is estimated that a single toad
may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects
in the course of a summer.

When subjected to an electric current
of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail
always points toward the north.
(You gotta wonder how they know this!)
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A 20 inch jack rabbit adult can leap 20 feet in a single bound.

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Walt Disney holds the world record
for the most Academy Awards won by one person,
he has won twenty statuettes,
and twelve other plaques and certificates.
"When you wish upon a star,
makes no difference who you are ... "

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The Venus flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.
(burrrrrp!)

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When angered, the Tazmanian devil turns pinkish red.

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The average Polar Bear stands about 8ft tall.

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Canada makes up 6.67 percent
of the Earth's land area.

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Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.

It is not possible to tickle yourself.
The cerebellum, a part of the brain,
warns the rest of the brain that you
are about to tickle yourself.
Since your brain knows this,
it ignores the resulting sensation.
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The longest hiccups on record
was by an American pig farmer
whose hiccups persisted
from 1922 to 1987.
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The wettest place in the world
(based on the yearly average total)
is Mawsynram, India,
which receives an average of 11,870mm
(474.8 inches) of rain each year.

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The slowest growing finger nail
is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing
is the finger nail on the middle finger.

Over 90% of diseases
are caused or complicated by stress.
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Cloud droplets are extremely small.
They are about ten thousandth
of an inch across, a thousand times
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Does this count?Woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that
pecking. Their skulls have air pockets to cushion
the brain

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The lowest temperature recorded
in the world is minus 89.6°C
at the Vostok Scientific Station
in Antarctica on 21 July 1983.
(brrrrrrrr!)
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Did you ever wonder
what the "WD" in WD-40 stands for?
Per the company, the product's full name
is WD-40 Water Displacer,
which was perfected on
the fortieth attempt.

The amount of water held
in the atmosphere at any time
is sufficient to produce about
2.5cm (1 inch) of rain
over the surface of the earth.
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Your brain is move active
and thinks more at night
than during the day.
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I know you're thinking of
making a joke about bunny's
brain not working ANYTIME!
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I was only thinking the bunny must not get much sleep! lol
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The human brain has about
100,000,000,000
(100 billion) neurons.
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Lightning is 5 times hotter
than the surface of the sun.

I think that Ja'aj posted this
once before, so this is a re-post
... because today is July 8th!Shortly after noon on July 8,
comes the moment
that will be:
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Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could
stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000
miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
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The Roman emperor Caligula
made his horse a senator.
(I think there's a joke here, somewhere ...
but I will let you come up with your own! ... LOL ...)

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The Roman emperor Caligula
made his horse a senator.
(I think there's a joke here, somewhere ...
but I will let you come up with your own! ... LOL ...)
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One charming St. Valentine's Day tradition from long ago
was to pick a dandelion that had gone to seed. The person
would then take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind.
He or she would then count the seeds that remained on the stem.
That was supposedly the number of children they would have.

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A cluster of bananas is called a hand.
Individual bananas are called fingers.

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The power lawn mower was invented by
Ransom E. Olds (of Oldsmobile fame) in 1915.
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Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

What do you think of that?!

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That's cool, Breezey!
I did not know Barbie's name! LOL
And that "beez" news to me, about those bees' eyes!
See, I just KNEW you were full of useless info!
(LOL ... just kidding, ya know) I'm one to talk! HA!
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That dandelion one... I never actually "read" it until now. I wonder if anyone actually claimed it really worked.

I see that SOMEONE has been busy over here!
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During the 1950s, the average budget for a Three Stooges' film was about $16,000. This included the salaries of the three stars. In the late 1990s, with the resurgence of interest in Moe, Larry, and Curly, Columbia Pictures easily earned more than that with just one TV showing of the same film in only one major U.S. city.

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Akebono, the sumo wrestler superstar from Hawaii, weighs 516 pounds.

Noologists study the mind.

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I'm a "cookieologist" ... I like to study cookies.

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The poinsettia, the red-and-green flower
commonly seen in Christmas arrangements,
isn't snow-friendly; it's native to sunny Mexico.

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Snail facts:

They scrape up their food by moving back and forth on an edible surface. You can picture this when you recall seeing a snail attached to a leaf. Later you see the leaf is full of holes.

Snails do not have segmented bodies,
like most all land animals.

They are believed to be related to the annelids.
Annelids are animals that do have segmented bodies.

They are not male or female - they are hermaphrodites.
They can produce both sperm and eggs.

The snail has no sense of hearing, they use their sense of smell and feeling to maneuver about the earth.

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you mean they 'eat' through the body part that's on the food ? no mouth?