I've got a whole book of these pointless yet interesting facts. I'll post the ones I remember.
Adolf Hitler's mum tried wanted to get an abortion, but the doctor talked her out of it. Blame the doctor, pplz.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo.
When you sneeze, all your body functions stop, even your heart.
Coca Cola was originally green
Santa's suit used to be green until Coca Cola came alone.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches two to six years of age.
Coca Cola used to contain cocaine.
If you put an unpeeled orange in water it'll float, but if you put a peeled orange in water it'll sink.
There are more people alive today than people who have ever died.
The first text ever sent said, "Merry Christmas". Now the amount of texts sent today equal the world's population.
Betty Boop was actually supposed to be a redhead.
Walt Disney was scared of mice.
The guy who did the voice for Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.
Dogs are known to get every disease humans get except appendixitis, because they don't have an appendix.
A Nigerian tribe used to greet each other by shaking eachother's -cough- instead of their hands.
The Scooby Doo character, Shaggy's real name is Norvelle Rogers.
In Britain:
About 100 people die every year from trying to water their Christmas trees while the lights were still on.
Ill people have to walk to the back of a chemists to get their medicine while fit people can buy their sweets at the counter.
Your pizza arrives faster than your ambulance.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A whale's -cough- is called a dork.
More Monopoly money is printed every year than real money.
"Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses" was about the black plague (this might be wrong)
The continents names all end with the same letter they start with.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A cow can walk upstairs, but not down.
Brazil was named after the nut, not the other way round.
Leonardo DaVinchi could draw with one hand and write with the other.
Although the film "Braveheart" was about Scotland, it was made by Americans, the actor for William Wallace was Australian and most of it was filmed in Ireland.
If you type in the code for one of the planes that crashed into the twin towers , "Q33NY", into Microsoft Word using the font "Wingdings" you get freaky results. But that probably wasn't the code of the plane, so this doesn't really count.
The longest place name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a hill in New Zealand.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is ten past ten.
Al Capone's (a famous gangster) business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 O_O
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
In the film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
