Dumb Facts

Did you know that the Guinness Book of Records also holds a record of sorts? It holds the record for being the most stolen book from public libraries.

Trivia is often interesting and fun to know but useless. These facts often serve as a source of entertainment to people. One of my favorite books as a child was 501 Fascinating Facts. Till date I have a fascination for books of trivia and reading these facts serves as good way to pass time and alleviate boredom.

Random Facts

There are many things on the planet that exist but do not necessarily make any sense. No one really knows the reason for their occurrence and therefore, most of these things make up our list of dumb facts. Some of these facts are funny and some are plain useless but all of them are informative in some little way.

• The thigh bones of a human being are stronger than concrete.
• If you thought caffeine is what will give you a rush in the morning and make you feel awake, you are wrong. The most effective eatable would be an apple.
• One of the most random facts about our eating capacity is that in our entire lifetime we will eat food that is equivalent to the weight of six fully grown elephants.
• If you thought fingerprints and DNA are the only things that can be solid proof in a murder case, you should know that tongue prints are equally individualistic.
• Guess which book causes the most number of shoplifting cases in US. The Bible.
• The speed of a human sneeze when it leaves the body is 40 miles per hour.
• An interesting fact is that subcontinental is the only word in the English language that has all the vowels in reverse order.
• A human being is born with 300 bones but as an adult has only 206 bones.
• The inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Alva Edison was afraid of the dark.
• There is only one nation in the world, the name of which starts with an A but does not end with an A. The country is Afghanistan.
• A donkey's eyes are placed in such a manner that it can see all four of its feet at all times.
• A funny fact is that there is an actual town named Hell on earth. It is situated in Norway. Now if we could just find Heaven.
• The only word in the English language that is pronounced the same way when all of its alphabets except the first one are removed is queue.
• If there was no coloring in Coca-Cola, then it would be green in color.
• One of the facts about women is that the women blink their eyes twice the number of times men do.
• One of the interesting useless facts is that Shakespeare, in all his writings used some 17,677 words and in the process coined about 1700 words. Talk about creative liberty!
• Did you know that the dot that you need to put over the alphabet i has a name? It is called a tittle.
• Ever consulted a dictionary to check a spelling? Double check next time. In the 1996 edition of Webster's Dictionary, almost 315 words were misspelled.
• There are a limited number of moves that you can use to play the first four chances in a game of chess. The number is a mere 318,979,564,000.
• Till the 1830's, ketchup was sold as medicine.
• A fact that definitely qualifies in any list of funny facts is that Donald Duck comic strips were banned in Finland because Donald Duck does not wear pants.
• Israeli postage stamps have a type of glue on them that is certified as kosher.
• Oscars handed out at the Academy Awards during the Second World War were made of wood due to scarcity of metal.
• One of the useless facts that you may want to know is that the earliest Olympic games allowed women to participate in the same but did not allow them to watch the games.
• The world's longest name is Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior. The name has 192 alphabets and 28 words.
• All those jokes cracked at the expense of Canada has one more addition. The name of the nation translates to mean Big Village.
• One of the random funny facts is that mosquito repellents do not actually repel mosquitoes; they hide human beings by blocking the mosquito's sensors that inform them about your presence.
• The only planet not to be named after a God is Earth.
• A giraffe has a tongue that is so long (approximately 21 inches), that it can clean its own ears with its tongue.
• Queen Elizabeth I had an extremely high opinion about her cleanliness as she made sure she had a bath once every three months regardless of whether or not she was unclean. This was a public declaration made by her.

These funny random facts are just a tip of the iceberg. There are many more such dumb facts about men, women, animals, objects, etc. Buy books, look up the Internet and increase your knowledge of useless trivia. If nothing else, they will continue to amuse.