prepare to have your minds blown we got a video boom did you know that dr seuss invented the word nerd that apple seeds release cyanide if you chew and swallow them or that captain crunch's full name is captain horatio magellan crunch welcome to watch mojo and today we'll be counting down 100 useless facts you don't need to know but will tell you anyway i feel smarter already these facts aren't pertinent to most people but if you have a useless fact drop it in the comments and we'll all learn together if you want mosquitoes to stop biting you simply play skrillex's scary monsters and nice sprites the song's wild frequencies and excessive loudness discourages the bugs from biting victims and even mating you are 13. 8 more likely to die on your birthday the king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache are you finally growing a mustache no you know i can't do that and it's cruel of you to keep bringing it up the color you see when you open your eyes in a pitch black room is called eigengrowl cats can't taste sweetness like several other meat-eating animals they lack the required gene a group of hippos is called a bloat the term first appeared in juliana berner's 15th century book the book of saint albans to which we also owe gems like a swarm of bees and a gaggle of geese alaska is the only u. s state whose name you can type out using just one row on a standard qwerty keyboard it turns out that your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand because you use it more it gets more banged around so your body sends more nutrients that way is that all you can do ow that kind of hurt is that bleeding no i guess it's all right ouch though despite having six legs dragonflies can't walk their legs are used for grasping rather than walking around mulan has the highest kill count of any disney character in the english language the dots that sits above the lowercase i and the letter j is called a tittle chickens and ostriches are more closely related to the tyrannosaurus rex than reptiles such as alligators and crocodiles the artist anish kapoor holds an exclusive artistic license to use what was until 2019 the world's blackest black substance called vantablack the actual first name of the monopoly mascot rich uncle pennybags is milburn the cookie monster's real name is sydney sid for short mattel's iconic doll barbie also has a full name barbara melissant roberts the full name of toy story sheriff woody is woody pride say little missy you notice any trouble around these parts mr clean's full name is veritably clean which came from a 1962 promotional campaign to name the mascot the city known as bangkok isn't actually named bangkok that's a nickname it's full name is kruntay mahanakon amon ratana kosin mahintara yutaya mahadilok pope noparat ratchatani bori rome udom rajani way it holds the guinness world record for the city with the longest name i'm sorry can you repeat that the ingenious inventor of pringles frederick bauer died at 89 years old as per his wishes his ashes were buried in an original flavor pringles can originally ketchup seems to have been made from fish it later became based only in the 1830s did tomato ketchup become popular ohio physician john cook bennett sold it in pill form claiming it could help cure diarrhea indigestion jaundice and rheumatism your sweat doesn't give off an odor bo otherwise known as bromhedrosis or osmidrosis is caused by bacteria breaking down the protein found in sweat some of the first editions of harry potter and the philosopher's stone by jk rowling were shipped off with misspellings and mistakes on the cover and inside one such copy sold in 2019 for almost 90 000 a normal sized piece of paper cannot be folded in half more than seven times however if you could fold it 42 times it would reach the moon challenge accept it you cannot swallow and breathe at the same time although some other mammals can it's also impossible to really hum while holding your nose go on we'll let you try cool huh every u.
s state shares a letter with the word mackerel except for ohio the word dreamt is the only word in the english language that ends with the letters mt the lens that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name ner it's defined as the substance that collects over time in the bottoms of pockets or cuffs of trousers snails have teeth thousands of them fortunately they're too small to hurt humans cows on the other hand have no upper front teeth vending machines are deadlier than sharks according to a 2015 u. s report by the national electronic surveillance systems the machines cause four deaths a year on average compare that to sharks who cause just 0. 6 deaths a year on average for the final stage of my appraisal i'm going to randomly select one of your vending machines to see if it can be rocked using human strength enough to tip and crush speaking of deaths coconuts and cows also kill more people than sharks do the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell famed composer beethoven and the first united states president george washington were alive simultaneously george washington would have been in his late 30s when beethoven was born the tomatan is a hands-free backpack robot that feeds you tomatoes it was invented by japanese juice maker kagome in 2015 as a way for runners to get nutrition on the go bees have five eyes the two big front eyes help them recognize colors and shapes while three smaller eyes on top of the head help with navigation when he was 27 famed writer and poet edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin according to his daughter j.
d salinger the author of catcher in the rye drank his urine can you get sick drinking piss i think he can't even if it's your own mr potato head used to be made of actual potatoes the toy consisted of the hands feet eyes nose mouth facial hair and other decorative pieces for the body kids were expected to provide their own potato contrary to popular belief the great wall of china cannot be seen from space however the pyramids of giza can soda fountain workers were called soda jerks a play on their formal name soda clerks this was because of the jerking motion used to operate the fountains the guys i work with are a bunch of jerks they're jerks well what makes them jerks forget it i don't want to talk about it according to actress karen black alfred hitchcock didn't have a belly button due to stomach surgery the first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot this was because researchers in cambridge university's computer lab got tired of walking over to an empty coffee machine a coin toss doesn't have a 50 50 chance of landing on either side according to math professor percy diaconis the chances are 51 to 49 that the coin will land on the side that was initially facing upwards the average belly button has 67 species of bacteria the researchers behind this discovery found 2 368 different species of bacteria in all older maps included fake places to prevent plagiarism examples dating back to the 1800s show that cartographers would add fake streets towns or other landmarks to prove whether a competitor was copying their work bears don't poop during hibernation a fecal plug develops in their bowels allowing them to sleep continuously listen this is gonna be one hell of a bowel movement afterwards he'll be lucky if he has any bones left back in a jiffy is a common phrase for back shortly but astrophysicists are a little more specific defining it as three septillionths of a second furbys were initially banned from nsa headquarters in fort meade maryland the nsa was afraid that the toys would hear and repeat confidential information the longest english words that you can type on only the top row of a qwerty keyboard include typewriter among a few others like perpetuity blue whales have the largest male genitalia on planet earth but as a proportion of body size the record goes to the barnacle it's a boy and what a boy uh that's the umbilical cord it's a girl a blob of toothpaste is called a nerdl if you say jesus backwards it sounds like sausage in 2008 a british team changed his name from george garrett to captain fantastic faster than superman spider-man batman wolverine hulk and the flash combined queen elizabeth ii owns 165 dairy cows who sleep on waterbeds in 1978 state delegate isaiah dixon jr tried to make randy newman's song short people illegal to play on the radio in maryland the largest bill to go into circulation in the u. s was a ten thousand dollar note ten thousand dollars it's chump change the infinity symbol is called a limnisket from the latin word for decorated with ribbons the opposite sides of a die always add up to seven the average american spends about 2. 5 days a year looking for lost items spoon fed is the longest english word that has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order pope francis was made an honorary harlem globetrotter in 2015.
the late pope john paul ii was made one in the year 2000. only one percent of corn in the u. s is sweet corn the kind you eat on the cob the remaining 99 is field corn which is used as livestock feed ethanol and processed foods like cereal i am is the shortest complete sentence in english hasbro has trademarked the iconic scent of play-doh promise me we were all eating my play-doh pasta tonight salt was so valuable in ancient rome that it was used as currency in fact the cell in the word celery means salt in latin the legendary water gun known as the super soaker was designed and invented by nasa engineer lonnie johnson in the u.
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