September 16, 2007

We Interrupt This Blog...

For some perfectly useless information.


Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of 2.

M&Ms were developed so that soldiers could eat chocolate without getting their fingers sticky.

Whales cannot swim backwards.

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.

Every year, 8,000 people injure themselves on toothpicks.

The state flag of Alaska was designed by a thirteen year old boy.

Counting how many times a cricket chirps on 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will tell you roughly what the outside temperature is in Fahrenheit.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

From This Book of More Perfectly Useless Information by Mitchell Symons

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I enjoy these. More please.

Staci said...

Soooo...the crickets must have been going insane this summer, huh? LOL Oh, and that mule thing...I might need to know that someday, might need to go get me a mule for whenever I needs to kick me some butt!! ;)

Heidi Kellems said...

Too Funny Jess had that cricket information as part of her sentences in Languages Arts just last week or so.