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Useless Facts:

Useless facts are fun tidbits of information that you can tell your friends about. Most of them are accurate, although I suspect some of them are a bit more far-fetched than others. Listed below, you'll find 25 useless facts
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  • 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.