Truly Useless

-Goodyear once made a tire entirely out of corn.

-Some robots in Japan have to pay union dues.

-The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.

-Raindrops can fall up to 22 miles per hour.

-Insonmia is the number one health problem Americans report to their doctors.

-The U.S. military specifications for fruitcake are 18 pages long.

-American Indians hardly ever go bald.

-A normal 100 ton blue whale eats its own weight in microscopic krill each month.

-Roman statues were often made with heads that could be removed and replaced with other heads.

-In some cases, ransom paid for a kidnap victim is tax deductible.

-In ancient rome, any house hit by lightning was considered consecrated.

-When astronauts returned from the moon they had to go through customs.

-Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.

-Bank robber John Dillinger used Ford cars exclusively for his getaway vehicles.

-According to the Ghost Research Society, there are 789 "real" haunted houses in the U.S.

-Denmark's flag has remained the same since the 13th century.

-The U.S. has nearly 4 million miles of roads and streets.

-More cowboys died crossing swollen rivers in the old west than in gun fights.

-A boulder is a rock that is 10 or more inches in diameter.

-Hippos can run faster than humans.

-It is illegal, in some states, to dance to the Star Spangles Banner.

-The weight of the sun's light on the Earth's surface is 2 pounds per square mile.

-Football has more rules than any other American sport.

-Daniel Webster was the first person to stand during the national anthem.

-Researchers have been able to teach ravens to count as high as six.

-Cinderella has been made into a movie 59 times.

-"New," and "Improved" are the words most frequently used in U.S. TV ads.

-An "average" wedding costs nearly $19,000 according to Bride's magazine.

-A golf club remains in contact with the ball for half a thousandth of a second.

-Stamp collecting is the most popular hobby in the world.

-The world's largest office chair resides in Anniston, Alabama. It stands 33 feet tall.

-With enough training an elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human.

-It would take 27,000 spider webs to produce a single pound of spider silk.

-The CIA once called an assassination team the "Health Alteration Committee."

-The movie Grease was released in Venezuela under the name Vaselina.

-19 states celebrate "National Admit You're Happy Day."

-Whenever Joan Crawford remarried, she replaced all the toilet seats in her house.

-Tombstones were originally put over graves so that the dead could not escape.

-The winning bid for "Nothing at all. Wanna buy it?" auctioned on eBay was $22.04.