(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); These are all taken from "The BEST of the Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader". At the bottom of each page of the book, they have little one sentence useless info lines. They are typed out, not copy/pasta'd. So shut up and enjoy them and inb4 "tl;dr."

Really though, sit back and read these. They are pretty interesting.


Original name for New York's Park Avenue: 4th Avenue (until they built Central Park)
A two hour movie uses about two miles of film.
Hair is the second-fastest growing tissue in the body. The fastest: bone marrow.
Mercury boils at 674.11ºF
Cost effective? It costs 8/10 of a cent to mint a penny.
In Canada and the northern U.S., milk is sold in plastic bags as well as in jugs.
Meat Loaf is a vegetarian.
Frightening fact: Phobatrivaphobia is a fear about phobias.
First actor to appear on the cover of Time magazine: Charlie Chaplin, in 1925.
The average U.S. teenage girl owns seven pairs of jeans. (spoiled bitches)
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley
Population of North Pole, Alaska: 2,183.
The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
Actress Mary Pickford, nicknamed "America's Sweetheart," was Canadian.
Melon is the Greek work for apple.
The Klingon Dictionary has sold over 250,000 copies to date.
That little statue on the grill of every Rolls Royce car has a name: "Spirit of Ecstasy."
Huh? HEARING AID SALES ROSE 40% WHEN PRESIDENT REAGAN GOT HIS.
Largest fruit crop on Earth: grapes. (Bananas are #2.)
Found in a shark's belly in 1941: 3 belts, 9 shoes, 14 stockings, and 42 buttons.
Burger King's original name was Insta Burger King.
Hedgehog urine was once believed to cure baldness.
Food fights? Most arguments in the home take place in the kitchen.
Can you taste them? The secret recipe for Dr Pepper is said to contain 23 fruit flavors.
A running tiger can cover about 30 feet in a single stride.
First all-female fire department: Ashville, New York, in 1943.
Cereal Trivia: The marshmallows in Lucky Charms are technically knows as "marbits."
Is it a red state? Tomato juice is the state beverage of Ohio.
Worth the risk? The average take from a bank robbery is about $3,000.
Mark Twain received a patent for "improved suspenders" in 1871.
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss" -Douglass Adams (idk either)
"Death would be a beautiful place if it looks like Brad Pitt." -Carmen Electra
World's first speed limit: England, 1903. (20 mph.)
Most people who are allergic to cats aren't allergic to cat fur, cat dander, cat saliva, or car urine... ...they are actually allergic to sebem, a fatty substance secreted by the cat's sebaceous gland. (?)
What'd they use before that? The English alphabet is about 700 years old.
Holy molar! In its lifetime, an alligator will go through as many as 3,000 teeth.
Myth-information: The actual communication from Apollo 13 was "Houston, we've had a problem."
According to researchers, public apologies in the U.S. doubled from 1900 to 2002.
World's highest fast food restaurant: McDonald's in La Paz, Bolivia, at 11,000 ft. above sea level.
Humdinger: Hawaii's state fish is the humuhumunukunukuapua'a.
A spider shed's its skin as many as 15 times during its life.
Who owned the last cow to be kept at the White House? William Howard Taft (1909-1913).
The village of Josefsberg, Italy, is in complete shadow 91 days of the year.
The first dice were made from sheep ankle bones.
Which city has the lowest divorce rate on Earth? Vatican City (0.00 per 1,000 residents).
A falling squirrel will use its tail as a parachute.
In 1912 the Giants and the Yankees played a charity game to raise money for Titanic survivors.
Conspiracy? Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869...by a dentist.
Indonesia has the most volcanoes...167 of which are active.
Cold-blooded fact: It takes 35-60 minks to make a single coat.
Worldwide, Christmas has been celebrated on 135 different days of the year.
Donald Duck's "official" address: 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.
A group of hares is called a down. (A group of hairs is called a wig.)
Geography fact: Brazil is larger than all 48 contiguous United States combined.
Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist. (the south)
In 1992, 30,000 Hawaiians signed a petition to change Maui's name... to Gilligan's Island.
Communist leader Karl Marx once worked as a reorter for the New York Daily Tribune.
The first umbrella was invented by the ancient Egyptians..to shield the sun.
Thomas Jefferson once ate a tomato in public to prove it wasn't poisonous.
The college with the most presidents as alumni -5- is Harvard University...
...Its presidential alums are the two Adamses, the two Roosevelts, and Kennedy.
If you're average, your feet hit the ground 7,000 times a day.
Doctors, more than any other profession, are most likely to be late for a doctor's appointment.
Americans spend an estimated $10 billion a year on gambling and games of chance.
The term "hell on wheels" originally applied to the Union Pacific Railroad's saloon railcars.
Caterpillars fast during the day.
Smallest town in the U.S.: Hove Mobile Park City, North Dakota, with a population of two.
Chief, the U.S. Cavalry's last horse, died in 1968. He was 36.
It takes a combine harvester 9 seconds to harvest enough wheat to make 70 loaves of bread.
Need a turkey tip? The number for the Turkey Talk-Line is 1-800-BUTTERBALL.
For the record, turkeys do not have belly buttons.
The chattering sound made by monkeys is called snuttering.
The cables on the Golden Gate Bridge contain 80,000 miles of steel wire.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
The Pacific Ocean comprises 46% of the Earth's water area.
Hamsters are extremely far-sighted.
You know that little membrane under your tongue? It's your frenulum.
Forks originally had two tines, and were known as "split spoons".
The title role of Jerry Maguire, played by Tom Cruise, was written for Tom Hanks...
The role of Dorothy Boyd, played by Renee Zellweger, was written for Wynona Ryder.
What do French and African marigolds have in common? They come from North America.
It takes 720 peanuts to make one pound of peanut butter.
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." -Yogi Berra
George Washington took the oath of office as first president at Federal Hall in Manchester.
Paul McCartney wrote "When I'm 64" when he was 15.
Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram: Dynamo.
Bathroom fact: The average water temperature for showers in the U.S. is 105ºF.
Second Street is the most common street name in the U.S.; First Street is the 6th.
"Too bad 90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation." -Henry Kissinger
Spare time: Earth has expanded at the equator by about 1/8 inch since 1998.
Isuzu means "50 bells" in Japanese.
Snakes sleep with both eyes open.
Handyman hint: Keeping moth balls in your tool box will help prevent rust.
American Indians spoke more than 133 different languages.
Bee stings are acidic, wasp stings are alkaline.
Puppies from the same litter can have different fathers.
7% of Americans claim they never bathe. (again, the south)
Australian outlaw Ned Kelly wore a homemade suit of armor.
Eugene O'Neill was expelled from Princeton for breaking a window in the president's office.
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, is the size of 78 football fields.
America's oldest candy brand: NECCO wafers, sold since 1847. (disgusting)
Gail Borden (inventor of condensed milk) is buried beneath a headstone shaped like a milk can.
Frogs have no ribs.
The term "hacker" was coined by MIT in 1961.
King George III survived two assassination attempts..in one day.
Only two books in the Bible are name for women: Ruth and Esther.
How can you tell when a platypus feels threatened? It growls. (duh)
It a man with normal vision and a color-blind woman have children...
...the daughters will have normal vision and the sons will be color-blind.
The average U.S. farm has 467 acres of land; the average Japanese farm has 3 acres.
End to End, the number of Crayola crayons made in a year would circle the globe 4 1/2 times.
Zip s-l-o-w-l-y according to researchers...
...ever year 100,000 Americans are injured by their own clothing.
Boxer Jack Johnson invented the common household wrench.
A turtle's shell is sensitive enough to feel a twig brush across it.
According to food researchers, thyme helps prevent tooth decay.
Who invented the rocking chair? Benjamin Franklin.
2,200 people are quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Only 164 are women.
It cost $3 million to build the Titanic...and $100 million to make the movie.
The main cluster of riders in a bicycle race is called a peloton.
Temperature of milk inside the cow: 101ºF.
First rock 'n' roll gold record: "Rock Around the Clock," by Bill Haley and the Comets, 1954.
Americans charge over $1 trillion on their credit cards annually.
A hippo's call can be heard from more than a mile away.
The first electric ovens were used in a Swiss Hotel in 1889.
56% of American kids ages 8-16 have a TV in their bedroom.
Every Thanksgiving, Americans consume 45 million turkeys--one for every 5 1/2 U.S. citizens.
McDonald's sells "McSpaghetti" in the Philippines and "McLak" salmon burgers in Norway.
Some spiders produce threads that are stronger than a steel wire of the same size.
What are gluons, leptons, and taus? Some of the names of particles smaller than atoms.
Money well spent: It cost $1,505,675 to build the Eiffel Tower in 1887.
Some prehistoric dragonflies had wingspans as big as a hawk's.
The Palustris hefner species of rabbit is named for Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner.
Maine is the only U.S. state with a one-syllable name.
Cost, in parts and labor, for an Academy Award Oscar statuette: about $3000.
Odds of being injured by a toilet seat in your lifetime: 1 in 6,500. (my sister did it)
Which part of the map is the ideo locator? The part that says "YOU ARE HERE."
Napoleon's favorite horse was named Marengo; George Washington's was named Lexington.
A record: 60.2% of the U.S. TV audience watched the last episode of M*A*S*H in 1983. (16.4 million watched Oprah's last show)
One in 500 humans have one blue eye and one brown eye. (I think we all have a brown eye lol)
A coffee tree yields only about a pound of coffee each year.
World's largest democracy: India, with 620 million voters.
There are more cars registered in California than in any other state.
More than 100 romance novels are published each month.
Louisiana is the only state that still refers to the Napoleonic Code in its state law.
How do they know? Scientists say that butterflies see in shades of green, red, and yellow.
First female national news anchor: Barbara Walters (1976).
Was he experienced? No-- Jimi Hendrix never took formal music lessons.
In Japan, apple farmers use turkeys to guard their orchards against wild monkeys.
Before 1920, it was technically legal to send children through the mail.
Artist Paul Cezanne taught his parrot to say "Cezanne is a great painter."
Italy produces the most rice of any country in Europe.
The mayfly's eggs take 3 years to hatch. Lifespan: about 6 hours.
Sound worse than it is: The medical condition epistaxisis is..a nosebleed.
Scientists say: An adult must taste a disliked food 10 times before learning to like it.
The earliest known will was written in 2550 B.C.
A typical hurricane lasts 9 days.
Brazil and Columbia combined produce 45% of the world's coffee.
There is an underground Church in Poland carved from solid salt.
If you're average, you'll blink 10,080 times today.
Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.
It's easy to spot someone with hexadectylism: six fingers on one hand or six toes on one foot.
Ireland's longest place name: Muchanaghederdauhaulia ("pig marsh between to saltwater inlets").
Bees taste with their back feet.
The bottom of the Grand Canyon is above sea level.
What do Google, Apple, and Amazon.com have in common? They were all started in home garages.
There are about 500 species of fish capable of producing electricity.
Iowa is bigger than Portugal.
What is nikhedonia? The feeling of pleasure one gets from anticipating victory.
Top 5 causes of home accidents: stairs, glass doors, cutlery, jars, power tools (in that order).
A giraffe only sleeps about 4 hours a day.
The first European to set foot in Australia was a Dutch Sailor who'd been blown off course.
From 1790 to 1800, the capital of the United States was Philadelphia.
The worlds longest movie, Cure For Insomnia (1987), runs 85 hours.
The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.
Food? Clothing? Shelter? About 65% of Americans say TV is a "necessity."
Some female cockroaches mate only once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives.
A 100lb cougar can take down an 800lb elk.
North Dakota is the only state in the U.S. never to have an earthquake.
The Rolling Stones made their American TV debut on The Red Skelton Show.
7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
When Trix cereal was introduced in 1954, it was 46.6% sugar. (yum)
In ancient China, criminals caught robbing travelers had their noses cut off.
Alexander the Great introduced eggplant to Europe.
Baby giraffes can grow as much as 1 inch every two hours.
King Henry VIII owned tennis shoes.
At last count, Ozzy Osbourne has been in rehab 14 times.
200 million atoms placed in a row would measure one inch.
~This one is amazing~ Hitler personally saved one jew from the death camps: Richard Strauss's daughter-in-law.~
Aprosexia is this inability to concentrate.
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes daily.
One American in eight is considered poor, but one home in six has at least three cars or trucks.
First live TV murder: when Jack Ruby killed JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (1963).
Wearing a hat is considered disrespectful in Fiji.
By law, all headstones in Norway must be equal height.
Odds that someone caught shoplifting is a teenager: 50%.
Dolphins can hear underwater sound from as far as 15 miles away.
Roman gladiators gave product endorsements. (they did commericals)
Most watched film in history: The Wizard of Oz. More than 1 billion people have seen it.
An adult roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
An adult male gorilla can bench press about 4,000 pounds.
In German, a party pooper is called a partymuffel
In 2000 Italian pastry chefs built an edible Ferrari out of 40,000 cream pies.

Ok I'm tried of writing these out now. Might post more in the future.

My brain is currently on over-load.

I started reading the first few lines, then I scrolled down..

Haha, the one in bold is the best :p

Lol same

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40,000 Cream pies. Those Italians are nasty.

If you actually put it in a better layout then yea cool! but who likes reading a massive black of writing?