useless facts

[Platapus]

The first tiger shark to hatch inside of its mother’s womb eats all the other embryos of its siblings. Even scientists admit that this is an unusual mode of survival.

[Jimbuna]

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

[Platapus]

The Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia is the world’s deepest hole. It is 7.5 miles deep, but interestingly, only 9 inches wide.

[Jimbuna]

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

[Platapus]

King Henry VIII had a “Groom of the Stool”, whose job was to monitor and assist in the King’s bowel movements. The role remained in existence until King Edward VII abolished it in 1901.




"Wipers!" (clap clap)

[Platapus]

Prior to 1964, artists could purchase a paint called 'Mummy Brown" which contained ground material from mummies.

[Jimbuna]

Only female mosquito’s' bite and most are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.

[Platapus]

With an average height of about 13,000 feet and stretching for 4,300 miles, the Andes Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

[Platapus]

The word “orange” was first used to describe the fruit, not the color.

[Jimbuna]

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

[Platapus]

In 1916, Jeanette Rankin became the first female member of Congress in America, four years before women were given the right to vote.

[Platapus]

California is the closest state to Hawaii, but Hawaii is the furthest state from California.

[Jimbuna]

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

[Platapus]

Brazil’s northernmost point is closer to Canada than it is to its own southernmost point.

[Jimbuna]

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.