On to the useless facts!
* A curveball can curve up to 18 inches.
* Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.
* The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.
* Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on Earth.
* The word "ejaculation" comes from the Latin word meaning "throwing
out."
* According to U.S. law, a beer commercial can never actually show a
person drinking beer.
* The world's most endangered cetacean is the Baiji, or Yangtze
River Dolphin.
* The two highest IQs ever recorded on a standard test both belong
to women.
* A professional dancer will go through 20 or more "pointe" shoes in
the course of one season of a ballet.
* Benjamin Franklin invented crop insurance.
* It costs about three cents to make a U.S. one-dollar bill.
* Many hospitals make money by selling umbilical cords taken after
patients give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
* A typical American eats 28 pigs in his or her lifetime.
* In Hawaii, the wind blows east to west.
* In Knoxville, Tennessee, it's against the law to lasso a fish.
* The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-
smelling plant.
* Adolph Hitler was "Time" magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938.
* Topeka, Kansas is named after a Dakota Indian word meaning "a good
place to dig potatoes."
* Twenty million Americans watch pornography annually.
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