USELESS & INTERESTING FACTS 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 1encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. 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 the name OZ. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. John Lennons first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raider’s of the Lost Ark was Harrison Fords idea so that he could take a bathroom break. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A snail can sleep for three years. All polar bears are left-handed. China has more English speakers than the United States. Elephants are the only animals that cant jump. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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