useless knowledge
From the book Useless Knowledge (from the site UselessKnowledge.com
(you should know the book unfortunately also contains many, many lies as well)
- Not only is a tiger's fur striped, but a tiger also has striped skin underneath
- Spiders are said to never spin a web in structures made of chestnut wood.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors
- Amazon.com was originally named Cadabra, as in the magical phrase "abra cadabra." After several conversations in which people misheard Cadabra.com as "cadaver," the company's name changed to Amazon.com for the South American river.
- An airplane's black box recorder actually isn't black but orange
- Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh," held 30 patents, including one for an early artificial heart he built in 1963 and then donated to the University of Utah for research.
- The great astronomer George Ellery Hale once claimed to have received hallucinatory visits - from a green elf.
- Presbyterians is an anagram of Britney Spears
- A male adult human head weighs from about 8 to 12 pounds
- Angel falls (Salto Alto) in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world. It is more than twenty times higher than Niagara Falls.
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