Knowledge Is Power


All knowledge is power...Even in a "Might Makes Right" society (or in a modern case "Money Makes Right") knowledge is power...Posted almost every day on this page will be a fact that has been, for one reason or another, deemed "useless" or is commonly unknown.


  • September 17th,2004
  • -There are recorded cases of babies being delivered through the rectum. In these rare instances, blockage of the vaginal orifice may force the unborn fetus into the rectal area and then it must be expelled through the anus.

  • September 15th,2004
  • -At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

  • September 10th,2004
  • -A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than the 6000C on the surface of the sun.

  • September 3rd,2004
  • -If one places a minute amount of liquor on a scorpion it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death

  • September 2nd,2004
  • -If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

  • September 1st,2004
  • In the 1830s, Ketchup was sold as a patent medicine. It was called Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato



  • Week of: February 12th,2001
  • Humans are susceptible to a disease called "The Laughing sickness." Those stricken with this disease will literally laugh themselves to death. The disease is known only in one place in the world, among the Kuru tribe of New Guinea.
  • Week of: Feurary 5th,2001
  • More than 71 million gallons of water pass over Victoria Falls in Africa every minute.
  • December 7,2000
  • The right lung takes in more air than the left.
  • December 6,2000
  • The body has 70,00 miles of blood vessels.
  • December 5,2000
  • There are 35 million digeestive glands in the stomac.
  • December 4,2000
  • All planets in our solar system could fit within the planet Jupiter.
  • December 3,2000
  • Because of the rate at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
  • December 2,2000
  • At birth, baby kangaroos are only an inch long.
  • December 1,2000
  • In 1221, Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
  • November 30,2000 Can we say butt rash?
  • -Amazia= The complete absence of breasts.
    -Athetosis= Constant invouluntary movements of fingers and toes.
    -Diphallic Terata= The presence of more than one penis.
    -Acersecomic= One whose hair has been cut.
    -Colporteur= One who sells bibles and religious tracts.
    -Sternutation= The act of sneezing.
    -Vaticide= The murder or murferer of a prophet.
    -Quean= A loose, disreputable woman.
  • November 22,2000, Figured I would get off my ass and do something
  • -Vestiphobia-Fear of clothing.
    -There is no one who does not dream. Tests have shone that they simply forget their dreams.
    -A person's hair can not turn white overnight-nor because of some horrible tragedy or frightening experience-or for any other reason.
    -There are 15,000 different kinds of rice.
    -Alaska is the only state with out a state motto.
    -According to the British Society for the prevention of Accidents, women are two and a half times more likely to have an automobile accident while menstrating.
    -One out of every eight letters used in written english is an 'e'.
    -Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the U.S.
    -If all the water from the world's oceans were to be formed together into one sphear, the spheare would be alost one-third the size of the moon.
  • November 12,2000
  • The average married woman in seventeeth-century America gave birth to 13 children.
  • November 11,2000
  • -A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
    -A heard of 60 cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in one day.
    -More than 600 people have committed suicide by jumping off the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge since it has been built.
    -It is possible to go blind from smoking. The condition is known as Amblyopia.
    -Astronomers believe that the univrese contains one atom for every 88 gallons of space.
  • November 6,2000
  • -The only thing that can destroy a dimond is intense heat.
    -2 out of 3 adults in the world have hemorrhoids.
    -The letters R.S.V.P. are an abbreviation for the French "repondez s'il vous plait" (respond please)
  • November 3,2000
  • Connection bad...must make this quick.
  • November 2,2000
  • Hitler was a vegitarian.
  • November 1,2000
  • The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
  • October 31,2000 wasn't my fault this time...angelfire was dumb
  • -Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
    -Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
    -The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
  • October 28,2000
  • John Travolta's first movie was Carrie.
  • October 27,2000
  • Spiders have transparent blood.
  • October 26,2000
  • It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
  • October 25, 2000 Did ya miss me?
  • -Pearls melt in vinegar.
    -It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
    -Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
    -An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
    -The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
    -Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  • October 19,2000
  • It is possible for a fetus in the womb to get hiccups
  • October 18, 2000
  • The boomerang cannot return to the thrower after hitting anything.
  • October 17, 2000 Fuck off...I was on vacation
  • -Dead bodies are taking longer to decompose now because our diets contain a lot of preservatives.
    -I want to go back on vacation.
    -Do I actually have a fact for each and every day that this site has been posted?
  • October 11, 2000
  • A mosquito has forty-seven teeth.
  • October 10, 2000
  • I'm sure there are a few of thses facts I could have gone with out posting...but oh well.
  • October 9, 2000
  • I am writing a movie.
  • October 8, 2000 I know I know...I'm a slacker
  • -In death the sense of hearing is usualy the last sense lost.Firstly its sight followed by, taste, smell and then touch.
    -There are locusts that have a adult life span of only a few weeks, after living in the ground as grubs for 15 years.
    -The city morgue in the Bronx, New York, has been know to get so busy that the next of kin have to take numbers and wait in line for their body-identification call.
  • October 3, 2000 yeah yeah yeah....shut up
  • -The amount of energy expended during sex is roughly the amount required to climb two flights of stairs.
    -There is an average of 400 million sperm in a single ejaculation.
    -One out of every 10 men in the United States is impotent.
    -When a male is being hanged he usualy has an erection and quite often ejaculates.
  • September 28, 2000 whoo hoo...yippie...more than one again...
  • -Tounge prints are as unique as finger prints.
    -one gram of venom from a king cobra can kill 150 people.
    -a blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
  • September 24, 2000, and I missed a few days working on my comic strip
  • -Cops can not pull you over at night unless they have some form of headlights turned on
    -The average person spends 27 years of their life sleeping
  • September 21, 2000
  • -Find every typo in this web site and win a prize.
  • September 20, 2000...And then some more
  • -There is enough Iron in a human being to make one small nail
    -January is: NATIONAL SOUP MONTH
    -Every male over the age of 18 in Arizona is considered to be part of the Arizona Militia
    -Bats always exit caves to the left
    -A femal Ferret will die if she goes into heat and can not find a mate
  • September 15, 2000
  • The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
  • September 16, 2000
  • The name of Jaba the Hutt's pet spider monkey is Salacious Crumb.
  • September 15, 2000
  • Some lions mate 50 times a day.
  • September 14, 2000
  • If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
  • September 13, 2000
  • Eventually several of my friends and I will be creating a web ring.
  • September 12, 2000
  • It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
  • September 11, 2000
  • Giraffes have no vocal chords .
  • September 10, 2000
  • A bowling pin needs to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.
  • September 9, 2000
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  • September 8, 2000
  • When sky-diving, it is unneeded to breathe, due to the ammount of oxygent that enters your pores form the free fall.
  • September 7, 2000
  • Saturday Agust 26, 2000 an asteroid roughtly the size of disneyland is spotted headed in Earth's direction. Friday September 1, 2000, six days after its first siting, asteroid 2000QW7 hurtles past the Earth and misses by 2.4 million miles. Life as we know it could have ended on that day and no one knew until 4 days later when they first brodcast the information. God Bless America huh?
  • September 6, 2000
  • Walt Disney was affraid of mice.
  • September 5, 2000
  • Today is the 5th of September.
  • September 4, 2000
  • 1 in 5,000 north atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
  • September 3, 2000
  • There are more brown m&ms in plain m&ms than in the peanut m&ms.
  • September 2, 2000
  • There are only 4 words in the english language that do not rhyme with anything: month, orange, purple and silver. Although some speculate that Door-hinge might rhyme with orange.
  • September 1, 2000
  • California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
  • August 31, 2000
  • Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
  • August 30, 2000
  • If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate at which they reproduce.
  • August 29, 2000
  • every year 11,000 americans injure themselves trying out bizarre sexual positions.
  • August 28, 2000
  • The oldest word in the english language is TOWN.
  • August 27, 2000
  • Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C".
  • August 26, 2000
  • No matter where you are in Australia you are never more than 1000 kilometers from the ocean.
  • August 25, 2000
  • In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
  • August 24, 2000
  • Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
  • August 23, 2000
  • November 19, 1999 was the last date before January 1, 3111 where all the digits in the the date are odd.
  • August 22, 2000
  • The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".
  • August 21, 2000
  • Human lungs are 100 times easier to blow up than a standard toy balloon.
  • August 20, 2000
  • In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'finger-lickin' good' came out as 'eat your fingers off.
  • August 19, 2000
  • It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
  • August 18, 2000
  • Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.
  • August 17, 2000
  • 1 in 5,000 north atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
  • August 16, 2000
  • It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, their have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilised world .
  • August 15, 2000
  • A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  • August 14, 2000
  • If Kevin Bacon was out of tune the the frequency of light, (thus making him invisible by it mearly going through him as aposed to reflecting off of him) he could also be out of tune with the frequency of normal electricity. The effect of such would be that when he hit the fuse box with the crow bar in the movie he would be uneffected. Another aspect of this is perhaps he would also be out of tune with the frequency of electricity produced by his brain; making him brain dead. If not then the electricity of his brain would be visible and thus you could tell where he is. If you can see his heat signal then you could then clearly see his thought patterns.
  • August 13, 2000
  • Kevin Bacon would be unable to see if his eyes were invisible. It would be a mass of unfocused light, color, and any image that he could remotly make out the shape for would be upside down.
  • August 12, 2000, AND THEN SOME
  • -Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
    -It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
    -The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth.
    -You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
  • August 2, 2000
  • Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
  • August 1, 2000
  • Plans have been made to clone Jesus Christ.
  • July 31, 2000
  • Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
  • July 30, 2000
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • July 29, 2000
  • The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln's inaugural address.
  • July 28, 2000
  • At -40 degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
  • July 27, 2000
  • A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  • July 26, 2000
  • I get all this information from other websites. But none of them offer the service of answering your questions like I do.
  • July 25, 2000
  • -Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
  • July 24, 2000
  • In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
  • July 23, 2000
  • More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
  • July 22, 2000
  • A lions roar can be heard from 5 miles away.
  • July 21, 2000
  • you can not tickle yourself.
  • July 20, 2000
  • The Saguaro Cactus does not grow branches until it is at least 75 years old.
  • July 19, 2000
  • Oak trees do not grow acorns until they are at least 50 years old.
  • July 18, 2000
  • Cammels milk does not crudle.
  • July 17, 2000
  • Women blink almost twice as much as men.
  • July 16, 2000
  • Kermit the frog is left handed.
  • July 15, 2000
  • Every month that starts on Sunday has a Friday the 13th in it.
  • July 14, 2000
  • All porcupines float in water.
  • July 13, 2000
  • A Duck's quack does not echo.
  • July 12, 2000
  • BARBIE's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
  • July 11, 2000
  • 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
  • July 10, 2000
  • It is illegal for cats and dogs to have sex in Wasington with out a permit.
  • July 9, 2000
  • On accident, scientests have made light travel 300 times faster than its normal speed. The effect produced was the pulse of light they were toying with existed on the other side of the room before it existed at its point of origin. I kid you not.
  • July 8, 2000
  • On this day in the year 1990, just past twelve-thirty in the afternoon, all the numbers in the standardized Western calendar and time code fall into absolute numeric sequence. In other words, 12:34:56, 7/8/90 equals 1234567890!
  • July 7, 2000
  • Penguin's don't have knees but they do have ankels.
  • July 6, 2000
  • Its alot harder than it seems to come up with a lesser power fact every night.
  • July 5, 2000
  • The energy saved by recycling one aluminum can will run a tv for one hour.
  • July 4, 2000
  • They are called "Wisedom Teeth" because you are wise not to get get them...cause they hurt really badly...i wouldn't know...i haven't gotten mine...
  • July 3, 2000
  • men produce more hair than women because men have 20 times the amount of androgens as women have.
  • July 2, 2000
  • The chemical that is spermicide use to be used in hospitals as a sanitizer.
  • July 1, 2000
  • very few people actually check this site daily...
  • June 30, 2000
  • Slavery was not completly abolished from the United States until 1994...Mississippi just kinda forgot to ratify that little 13th ammendment.
  • June 29, 2000
  • men have bigger brains than women, but women have 20% more brain mass than men.
  • June 28, 2000
  • Long ago, in England, the Pope declared that all shall walk on the left side of the road so that they can draw their swords better if needed. And the English just never change.
  • June 27, 2000
  • Donald Duck's middle name is:Fauntleroy

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