Useless Information January 2025

Useless Information January 2025

Useless Information January 2025 There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible starting positions on a Rubik’s Cube. Originally, Saran Wrap had a greenish tint and an unpleasant odor. The chemical it was made from was also sprayed on fighter planes and car upholstery...
Useless Information December 2024

Useless Information December 2024

Useless Information December 2024 A humpback whale calf will drink up to 130 gallons of milk a day. The world’s largest ant colony stretches from Italy to Portugal, some 3,700 miles. Locust swarms can be up to ten miles wide. Under favorable conditions, sixty-thousand...
Useless Information November 2024

Useless Information November 2024

Useless Information November 2024 Plymouth’s Thanksgiving began with a few colonists going out “fowling,” possibly for turkeys but more probably for the easier prey of geese and ducks, since they “in one day killed as much as…served the company almost a week.” Next,...
Useless Information November 2024

Useless Information October 2024

Useless Information October 2024 One quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Halloween. Halloweenis a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the...
Useless Information September 2024

Useless Information September 2024

Useless Information September 2024 General George Patton competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, finishing fifth in the pentathlon. Michael Jordan wore his college team basketball shorts under his Chicago Bulls shorts for luck. (As if he needed it.) The Belmont...

August 2024

Useless Information August 2024 In one hour, the heart produces enough energy to raise almost one ton of weight a yard off the ground. When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight, followed by taste, smell, and touch....