Useless Facts:

• An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.
• The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
• An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
• The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
• From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!
• Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second!
• A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
• Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
• The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
• Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.
• Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
• More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
• All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
• At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.
• C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
• One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.
• Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
• U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
• Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.
• English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!
• Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
• Michael Keaton's original name is Michael Douglas.