Useless Facts!!

• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
• A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
• Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
• Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
• Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
• Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
• Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
• Only female mosquitoes bite.
• Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
• Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
• Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
• The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
• In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.