Interesting Useless Facts

Some useless facts from our friends at SingleGrain.

My personal favorite useless facts from the list:
1) Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
* I wish one of the airlines would adopt this as their motto.
2) Shortest war in history was in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to England after 38 minutes.
* Paging France…paging France…maybe you aren’t at the bottom of the list?
3) It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of world’s population is drunk.
* Sweet, now we’ve found a good tag line for a beer company ad. “Drink Jose Cuervo and be one of the 0.7%”
4) Coconuts kill about 150 people each year.
* Something to consider when you take that vacation to the tropics.
5) If Barbie were life size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
* Where do I sign up?
6) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
* Don’t bother, I tried for 5 minutes and came up empty.
7) There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
* Again, where do I sign up?
8.) If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
* I always knew what we were doing at my apartment in college was lethal.
9) A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
* Don’t bother, I tried and came up empty.