So, on my iGoogle homepage, I have this thing called Useless Knowledge. And it's just what it says it is: useless knowledge. I would like to share with our audience some of my interesting findings.
1. Close to 20 percent of all adults living in the United States have had a cockroach living in their inner ear canal.The roach enters the ear while you sleep.
2. In ancient Greece, prostitutes wore sandals with nails studded into the soles so that their footprints would leave the message "Follow me."
3. If a pin were heated to the same temperature as the center of the Sun, its fierce heat would set everything within 60 miles ablaze.
4. Basketball got its name from the half-bushel peach baskets used as targets by the originator, James A. Naismith, in 1891.
5. There are 40,000 muscles and tendons in an elephant’s trunk. This makes it very strong and flexible, allowing an elephant to pluck a delicate flower, untie a knot, or tear a tree out of the ground; yet the trunk is sensitive enough to smell water 3 miles away.
6. The average adult loses 540 calories with every liter of sweat.
7. The average human body holds enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog.
8. The lungs of an average adult, unfolded and flattened out, would cover an area the size of a tennis court.
9. A rat can fall from a 5-story building without injury.
10. In Saudi Arabia there are solar-powered pay phones in the desert.
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