useless info

hello everyone
does anyone have a bit of useless info to share?here are a couple of tidbits for you: the numbers on opposite sides of a pair of dice always add up to seven:Nestle is the largest company in Switzerland and 98 percent of its revenue comes from outside of the country:In Italy an advertising campaign for Schweppes tonic water got translated into "toilet water":male monkeys lose the hair on their head in the same manner as humans...do you suppose they scream "help they're making a man out of me?
rita

 

If you took a billion dollars in one dollar bills and laid them end-to-end, you would go half way to the moon.

Acadia

 

pineapples do not ripen after they have been picked

 

If you started the first day of a month with 1 cent and then doubled it next day to 2 cents and doubled it next day to 4 cents, and kept doubling it each day, by the end of the month you would be a millionaire.

Acadia

 

in 1966 Howard Hughes made a half million dollars in one day.he was handed a check for $546,549,171 for his 75 percent share in TWA

 

A day at planet Venus lasts longer than one year on Venus:

It takes the planet 243 (earth)days to make one turn around her own axis, but it takes the planet 224 days to make one round around the sun.

 

Did you know that in 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast?

 

It is impossible to get water out of a rimless tire

 

The amount of concrete used in the building of the Hoover Dam is equal to that of paving a 4-foot (1.2 m) wide footpath around the equator.

 

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

 

If you have a headache you are not alone

 

It is better to smile

 

probably the first woman paid to use the phone

 

The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

 

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

 

here are a few more

 

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles (299,274 km) per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles (1,126 km) per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles (20,917 km) away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

 

[size=+2][/size]In 1961, Henri Matisse's painting Le Bateau hung upside down in New York's Museum of Modern Art. It remained upside down for forty-one days until someone noticed. It's estimated nearly 116,000 people passed in front of the painting before the error was noted.

 

Did you ever wonder what the WD in WD-40 stands for? The name was lifted right out chemist Norm Larsen's laboratory notebook. Way back in 1953, he was trying to concoct an anti-corrosion formula, which worked on the basic principle of displacing water. On his 40th try, Larsen finally got it right. Hence the name WD-40. It literally means Water Displacer, 40th try.

 

It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet