Similar to a magazine here, I want to make a thread about "useless facts you do not have to know about, but you won't forget".
I'll start:
-In Canada, a piece of land is only considered an island if it has a tree on it
-an aftertaste can never be sweet
-83% of persons hit by lighting are male
-the print media with the most copies worldwide is the IKEA catalogue
-the probability that in a group of 23 people at least 2 share their date of birth is over 50%
-39 popes were married
-the olympic torch run was invented by the nazis
-Radovan Karaczic worked for the FC Barcelona as a psychologist
-the word gymnasium comes from the ancient Greek word gymnasion (γυμνάσιον), meaning "place to be naked"
-in Guantanamo, there's McDonalds, Starbucks and Subway
-The outer side of the panties of female Beach Volleyball player's can't be broader than 3.5cm
-the packaging of Corn flakes has more nutrients than its content
-the science of stupidity is called morology
-more tigers live in private US property than worldwide in the wild
-booze inventor Jim Beam was originally called Jakob Böhm and is German
-a 4year old child asks about 400 questions a day
-according to US food regulations, 9mg rat fecies per kg wheat are allowed
-M&Ms were developed for soldiers to be able to eat chocolate without stickying their fingers
-there is no confirmed report of piranhas killing a man
-there's an ATM in the White House's basement
-in very low concentration, sodium chloride (salt) tastes sweet
-Nokia started out making rubber boots
-if you remove the brain of a male bristle worm, it turns female
-when pope Innozenz III lay dying in 1492, his doctors let him drink the blood of 3 boys. They boys died. The pope, too.
-Prof. Robert Smith? teaches mathematics at the university in Ottawa and insists on the question mark to be part of his name
-statistically, a person lies every 4.8 minutes
your turn!