Useless Facts

Coconut milk can be used as a plasma replacement in the human body.

 

Racecar is the longest palindrome in the English language.

 

Longest ONE WORD palindrome!

 

What was the name of the band the first time the three original members of Queen (Mercury, May, and Taylor) played together?

Spoiler: Band Name

Smile

 

The mother of one of the band members in The Monkies invented white out.

 

I loved the Monkees! Davy, Peter, Micky, and Mike.

 

Rihanna is tied with Michael Jackson for the most #1 singles in music history.

 

I'm watching the History Channel, like the nerd I am, and I found out the origin of the bad luck Friday the 13th, may have come from some time in the 1300's when the King of France had many of the Knights Templar rounded up on the same day... Friday the 13th.

 

The Herules club tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) contains xanthoxylin, which when chewed causes a numbness in the mouth. Native Americans and early settlers would chew on the warts or the leaves to relieve toothaches and sometimes before dental operations.

A picture of one from the farm:

 

Some people claim to experience powerful euphoria from toxic or very high doses of caffeine! Others feel like they're about to die and go to the emergency room!

 

Haha - the person who increased the popularity of toilets and invented ballcock was Thomas Crapper. That's awesome.

 

You're shitting me!

 

Well, I don't give a crap!

 

Dulcolax can fix this.

 

Thank you, I'll go to a drugstore right away!

 

frotteurism:
the paraphiliac practice of achieving sexual stimulation or orgasm by touching and rubbing against a person without the person's consent and usually in a public place—called also frottage

 

Caffeine in pill form is absorbed less efficiently than in liquid form.

 

I just learned that during WWI, the British used men in their Navy as drag queens in order to dupe German U-boats to surface so they could blow them up.

 

Did you know that before becoming a comedian, Ricky Gervais was a pop singer back in the 1980s.

Also, did you know the last land battle to ever be fought on the British isles occurred during the Victorian era, when soldiers were sent to put down a weird religious cult.

 

Prozac was derived from diphenhydramine, also known as Benadryl. Both of them increase serotonin levels, but Prozac has the advantage of not knocking people flat on their ass.

 

The Green Hornet (Britt Reid) is a direct descendant of the Lone Ranger (John Reid).

 

Did you know that there is someone trying to convince people that Stephen King shot John Lennon.

 

Potatoes and tomatoes are indigenous to central America and did not reach Europe until the late 1500's. Pretty impressive as they have had so much impact on Eurasian cultures. Thanks Cortez

 

Iggy Azelea is the first singer since the Beatles to have two songs be both #1 and #2 on the charts at the same time.

 

Frogs swallow with their eyes.