15 really usefully useless facts because most of us love something totally useless.
1 You burn 3.5 calories each time you laugh.
2 The delightful expression ‘kick my arse’ is thought to date back to 1705.
3 More than 500 peanuts are used to make a jar of peanut butter.
4 Japan is the largest exporter of frogs’ legs.
5 One in ten people in the world live on an island.
6 Our ability to taste fades with age.
7 Flushing a toilet costs on average 1.5p.
8 A person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper each day.
9 At the age of 35, a human will start to loose approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. They are never replaced.
10 Most toilets flush in the key of E flat.
11 Between 4 and 5 people are born every second and 2 people die.
12 Britons throw away enough rubbish every hour to fill the Royal Albert Hall.
13 People read 25% slower from a computer screen than from paper.
14 The space between your eyebrows is called glabella.
15 Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils.
And you can stop flaring, or not flaring, your nostrils now.
Anya from older single mum says
No wonder peanut butter is SO fattening. 57 sheets? The Royal Albert Hall – every hour? All astonishing!
Cat says
“People read 25% slower from a computer screen than from paper.” so when is the print version of Confessions comming out? LOL