Again With the Useless Facts???

October 9, 2007 | Category: Personal, Random Thoughts

Some more Useless Facts

  • US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
  • It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
  • The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
  • Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
  • Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
  • American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
  • IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.
  • Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

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4 Comments

  1. Scott on October 12th, 2007
    1

    Nice! A fellow geek blogger! Though, I consider myself more of a nerd than a geek . . .

  2. Miss Smack on October 14th, 2007
    2

    Template looks great, mate

  3. Anthony on October 14th, 2007
    3

    Welcome Scott to my corner of Geekdom

    Thanks Cat appreciate the kudos.

  4. Miss Trashahassee on October 22nd, 2007
    4

    Oh, honeychild, I love them useless facts of all kinds, I does, I does.

    That ZIP thing makes me crazy when people does it wrong.

    You ain’t asked, but know what else I hates? I hate, really, really hate, when peoples what think they knows everything calls plain old abbreviations an “acronym” when it don’t make anything pronounceable.

    One day this smartybritches told me that GOP was the acronym for the Republican Party. I said, “No, it ain’t neither! GOP is just initials and stands for Grand Old Party.”

    And she said, “That’s an acronym.”

    And I said, “No it ain’t. If it was an acronym we’d have to call ‘em ‘Gop.’ Rhymes with ‘pop’ and ‘top.’ So just STOP!”

    And with that, I will, too.

    BFF,
    Miss T

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