Useless Facts

Ok, i know that this has little to do with helping people starting up a web site, or a blog... or does it!? the main reason why I placed these up here is because:
a) I thought they were interesting, but useless facts.
b) This may give you an idea of some type of content you can bring to your site to keep people coming back.

• 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible will be 6009!
• A group of crows is called a murder.
• A group of officers is called a mess.
• A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox car can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
• A necropsy is an autopsy on animals.
• According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
• Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
• About a third of Americans flush while they are still sitting on the toilet.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave it to Beaver.
• In 1946, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head.
• In 1980, Namco released PAC-MAN, the most popular video game (or arcade game) of all time. The original name was going to be PUCK MAN, but executives saw the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the P in the games marquee and labeling.
• In 1981, a guy had a heart attack after playing the game BERSERK -- video gaming's only known fatality.
• A female orgasm is a powerful painkiller (because of the release of endorphines), so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
• Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
• In the U.S., there is, on average, three sex change operations per day.
• Human bones can withstand stresses of twenty-four thousand pounds per square inch.
• Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
• A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which proves that humans once had tails.

• 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

• A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.

• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

• About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

• Air pollution may contribute to two percent of all deaths in the US, some 50,000 cases per year. A nine-year study of US cities showed a strong correlation between death rates and periods of significant pollution.

• America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

• Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.

• Based on a US Justice Department study conducted between 1992 and 1996, workplace violence troubles 1.7 million Americans a year. Number of workers attacked or threatened per thousand: Police officers: 306, Private security guards: 218, Taxi drivers: 184, Prison guards: 117, Bartenders: 91, Mental health professionals: 80, Gas station attendants: 79.

• Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
  
  Well, Now you know some completely useless facts, but hopefully this gives you some ideas for a site or blog.