Kill some time - Learn something new (completely useless facts to impress your mates)

1.      A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes least twenty minutes to stop.

2.      A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

3.      A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

4.      A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years.

5.      A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

6.      A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

7.      A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.

8.      A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.

9.      About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

10.  According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

11.  Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

12.  Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

13.  Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

14.  Armoured knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

15.  Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

16.  Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

17.  Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

18.  Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

19.  Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

20.  Every person has a unique tongue print.

21.  Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

22.  In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

23.  In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

24.  Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

25.  Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

26.  One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

27.  Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

28.  Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

29.  The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.

30.  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

31.  The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

32.  The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly.

33.  The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

34.  The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

35.  The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

36.  The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

37.  The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

38.  The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

39.  The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

40.  Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

41.  Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

42.  Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

43.  You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

44.  Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.