· Robin Hood's real name was Robert Fitz Ooth.
· March 9 is "Useless Facts and Trivia Day."
· The common silkworm has eleven brains, but it only uses five of them.
· English has 26 letters in its alphabet. Tamil has 248.
· Wallpaper was first used as a decoration for Chinese tombs.
· Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
· There are 3,000 types of lice.
· Vibrators are illegal in Alabama. A law makes it illegal to "produce, distribute or otherwise
sell sexual devices that are marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."
· Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
· The first Olympic games to be televised were the 1936 games in Berlin.
· Room temperature is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
· The word for a misheard lyric is "mondegreen."
· Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL.
· All spiders are cannibals.
· Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers—Moe,
Curly and Shemp.
· Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
· Thirty-seven percent of all Christians describe themselves as born-again or evangelical.
· "Scelerophibia" is the fear of burglars.
· The original name for Mickey Mouse was Mortimer Mouse.
· There is a species of moth that lives entirely on cow tears.
· Iguanas have two penises.
· Eighty percent of millionaires drive secondhand cars.
· Ancient Rome had rent-a-chariot businesses.
· "Fraternity" was once a term used by thieves to describe themselves.
· Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world.
· "Menophobia" is the fear of menstruation.
· Seven percent of Americans think Elvis is still alive.
· The mass of the Sun is about two trillion, trillion, trillion tons.
· Every hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.
· Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
· According to the polls, the most disliked animal in the world is the snake.
· In 1916, Georgia Tech's football team beat Cumberland University 222 to 0.
· The average human brain accounts for two percent of a person's total body weight.
· The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded with the sole purpose of warning drivers about police speed traps.
· A group of peacocks is called an "ostentation."
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