Useless facts

[Elgin Clock]

Here's some that I stole from Snapple Caps:

A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways

A duck's quack doesn't echo

A goldfish's attention span is three seconds

A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance

A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations

A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day

Alaska has more caribou than people

Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work

Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.

All porcupines float in water

Almonds are members of the peach family

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons

Broccoli is the only vegetable that is a flower

Cats can hear ultrasound

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds

Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backwards

Fish cough

Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open

Lizards communicate by doing push-ups

Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas

No word in the English language rhymes with month

Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his/her lifetime

The average raindrop falls at seven miles per hour

The only food that doesn't spoil is honey

The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses

The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body

There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia

You blink over 10,000,000 times a year

You will definitely never run out of conversation topics at party's if you print this post! LOL