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There are more chickens than people in the world (at least before that chicken-flu thing).
New Jersey grows two-thirds of the world’s eggplant.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver or purple.
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill 💸.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
They are funny, isn’t it!

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Humans are born with 350 bones 🦴 in their body, but when reaching adulthood, we only 260.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The word “School” comes from the ancient Greek for “FREE TIME”.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1” encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
More to useless facts to go!

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Who’s that playing the piano 🎹 on the “Mad About You” theme? Paul Reiser himself.
The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away (pretty good trick).
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Historically, more collect phone calls are made on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year.
The name of John Lennon’s first girlfriend is Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.