Useless Information

• There are 22 stars in the Paramount movie studio logo.
• On the Roseanne show, DJ stood for David Jacob.
• While almost everyone knows that Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, few know that Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.
• Lyndon Johnson's First Family all had initials LBJ. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson and Lucy Baines Johnson. And his dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
• The Black Cauldron is the only PG-rated Disney animated feature.
• A humpback whale's milk is 54 percent fat.
• It is illegal to purchase any cereal which contain barley or grain on a Sunday in Ohio.
• The first letter Vanna White ever turned on Wheel of Fortune was the letter T.
• The snapping turtle eats carion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps. Plus, dead bodies are funny.
• The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
• The Latin name for moose is alces alces.
• Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
• Tabasco sauce is made by fermenting vinegar and hot peppers in a French oak barrel which has three inches of salt on top and is aged for three years until all the salt is diffused through the barrel.
• Ancient Egyptian women would squat down in the
• If you paint the flag of Canada, you must use these colors: The printing ink colour is FIP red: General Printing Ink, No. 0-712; Inmont Canada Ltd., No. 4T51577; Monarch Inks, No. 62539/0; or Sinclair and Valentine, No. RL163929/0. The painting colours are FIP red No. 509-211 and white: 513-201.
• The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.
• Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
• The cashew is related to the mango, poison ivy, and poison oak. The skin and fruit surrounding the kernel (what you buy) can cause skin eruptions just like those produced by its well-known cousins. Even the smoke from roasting the cashew can cause severe reactions.
• The first host of SNL was George Carlin
• The oldest known goldfish lived to be 41 years of age and was named Fred.
• About 1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while they are still sitting on it.
• Penguins can jump about 6 feet in the air.

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