Friday, January 1, 2010

Useless information

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of it evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.
The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2 200 people. I wonder if the frog's legs taste like chicken.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, in the air it is a skein.
There wasn't a single pony in the pony express. They were all horses.
Was John Wesley Hardin just a misunderstood son of a preacherman?
Slugs have four noses.
Pinocchio is Italian for "Pine eye"
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Clinophobia is a fear of beds.
If you counted 24 hours a day at a normal pace, whatever that is, it would take 31, 688 years to reach one trillion.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.

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