The "Add a Useless Fact" thread....

[Papa Deuce]

Herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world. It has about the same nutritional value as beef.

 

[ilovepcot]

Ilovepcot can do a split!

 

[Aurora63]

The most popular boy's name in the world is Mohammed. At least I think it still is.

 

[grinningghost]

Gene Rayburn, himself, invented the extended handle microphone he used on Match Game.

 

[Sparx]

over all, people are, on adverage, more scared to speak in front of people than they are scared to die.

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

Dachsunds like eating carrots.

 

[vsimeone]

You asked for it:

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 

[momsgoofy]

Gene Rayburn, himself, invented the extended handle microphone he used on Match Game.

And Gene Rayburn is from a town near me....Christopher, Illinois.

 

[Evil Queen]

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

 

[sajetto]

Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales

 

[Papa Deuce]

If the earth was made flat, and we could keep all the water on it, the water would be 2 miles deep anywhere you checked.

 

[grinningghost]

Desperate Housewives' Wisteria Lane was also known as Pine Street on Leave It To Beaver.

 

[Evil Queen]

The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

 

[Syrreal]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

 

[ZuZugal]

"Stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump

 

[Evil Queen]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

That's me for sure.

 

[KingsFanInRI]

Joe Niekro, a major league pitcher for 22 years, had nearly 1,000 at-bats and hit exactly one home run.... off of his brother Phil.

 

[slk537]

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

 

[Robinrs]

Half hour infomercials are actually 28minutes and 30secs and MUST say the price of their item within 11 minutes.... I love my job...

 

[Poohnatic]

The wire that retains the cork on a bottle of champagne is turned exactly 7 1/2 times.