Morning Coffee 

A grandmother was surprised by her 7 year old grandson one morning. He had made her coffee. She drank what was the worst cup of coffee in her life. When she got to the bottom, there were three of those little green army men in the cup. She said, "Honey, what are the army men doing in my coffee?" Her grandson replied, "Grandma, it says on TV -'The best part of waking up is soldiers in your cup!'" ~

Useless Facts

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
  
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
  
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
  
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
  
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
  
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
  
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  
• There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  
• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina delos Angeles de Porciuncula" -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
  
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  
• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used-furniture dealer.
  
• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
  
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
  
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
  
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
  
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  
• On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
  
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  
• The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
  
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  
• Mr.Rogers is an ordained minister.
  
• John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
  
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (This proves I am not average!!)
  
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  

Now consider this:
Just think of how many millions of dollars has been granted for researchers to collect this useless data!! Someone got paid to find and compile these facts.

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