13 Facts You Absolutely Don’t Need to Know…

But Now You Know it Now Anyway!

 

(No need to thank me. Just send Johnny Depp my way)

  1. Lemon sharks eat each other in the womb before birth. (Oh! Oh, feel that dear…they’re fighting again! Did you feel that? Oh, my precious babies…)
  2. Martha Washington (George Washington’s wife) is the only woman ever to appear on a US currency note. She appeared on a $1 note between 1886-1891.
  3. Americans spend 40% of their weekly wage on eating out and $35billion a year on dieting.
  4. David Beckham suffers from Ataxophobia—a fear of disorder. In his wardrobe, each shirt is filed according to its colour. (He also suffers from fixation with a female robot with curiously perfect golf ball round boobs who seems programmed to say the word “major” every 5 seconds.)
  5. President Bush once almost choked to death on a pretzel. No doubt to the relief of some, and the great frustration of many.
  6. Goodyear rubber company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left.
  7. The shallow champagne glass owes its life to Marie Antoinette. It was first formed from wax moulds of her breasts. Judging by the shape of a champagne glass…does this means it sagged beyond help?
  8. Golf is the only sport that’s been played on the moon—by astronaut Alan Shepard in February 1971. Landing on the moon does not interfere with his daily round of golf, it seems. Men!
  9. Sylvester Stallone was considered for the role of Forrest Gump. And had he snagged it, the movie would have been a flop.
  10. Tom Cruise enrolled to be a priest but dropped out after a year. Because he was a nutter, even then.
  11. The world’s smallest “car”, created by nano-technicians, is four nanometers across. A human hair is 80,000 nanometers thick. Now, let me get this straight: I thought cars are supposed to be a transportation mode? And who or what should we transport with this nano car? Germs? Bacterias? Dust particles??? And you wonder why people haven’t come up with a cure for cancer yet.
  12. Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass. Hahaha. Hahahaha! Hahahahaa! I have no other comments for this, hahahahahaha!
  13. Putin (yeah, of Russia) is a former KGB intelligence officer. Major credentials, that. Which makes him more lethal and double dose scary. Ack. I want my mummy…

 

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The following persons have edjumecated themselves with the above facts and is hereby ordered to show off their newfound intelligence to the general public. Thanks everyone!

 

  • My Twenty Cents Keeps Moving
  • MinTheGap
  • Cecile
  • Believer in Balance
  • april (Thank you for the extra info, hahaha!)
  • Damozel (I didn’t know there exist such thing as “lemon shark” as well til I did this)
  • Gattina (ahahaha, glad it cure inferiority complex. Now, if only we could feel this info to Paris Hilton and cure her of airheadedness?)
  • momheubert (These facts were actually found in men’s magazine. They usually have a section about useless facts. Men….*grin*)
  • Krista
  • Malcolm (Thank you! Does anyone else think she does look like a robot in some photoshots?)
  • Jen (There are orange sharks?? Goodness, what next? Apple shark? Watermelon sharks?)
  • Reening (Haha, I mean, since the glasses are so deep and shallow, so the ehem, breast, must be saggy)
  • Nicholas (You just convinced me that Putin may be the scariest head of state)
  • Mike 
  • Titania

Now I’m off to visit everyone! Sorry for the delay in links updates and reply visit!

16 Responses

  1. Pretty amusing. A lot of those I never would have guessed and some I knew!

    My TT is up.

  2. Love #4! Great list!

  3. did you ever see the SNL skit (probably not) about Bush choking on a pretsel? It was from outside the oval office, the secret service overhears a fight between chainey and busha nd you hear chainey beating bush. When he comes out ss askes where he got the bruises and he responds “oh, umm i umm.. uhh choked on a pretzel and passed out”

  4. You are so wrong…I absolutely DID need to know about lemon sharks (though if they eat each other, how are there any lemon sharks at all?) and Stallone as Gump and your remarks about “Posh” and “Becks.”

  5. Thank you ! I feel much better now that my general knowledges are tremendously improved ! I don’t suffer from inferiority complexes anymore ! The only thing which bothers me a lot is that I must have this awful desease called : Cenosillicaphobia !Maybe I should try a cup instead of a glass.

  6. Where did you find these funny things?! You have WAY too much time on your hands…

  7. Happy T13! Great list. I love useless trivia.

  8. I love factoids like this. Your comments about Beckham’s female robot cracked me up!

  9. Lemon shark>>>>>any relation to the orange shark? LOL, amusing list but travolta as GumP, was that person on crack? Happy thursday.

  10. This is cool. Never knew wine glasses were so saggy.

  11. I knew that about Putin. He’s also a former fighter pilot, I believe, and a black belt at karate.

  12. I love trivia, only because I could use it to impress my kids.

    :)

    Mike
    http://somethingaboutparenting.typepad.com/

    http://www.mikeleonen.com/

  13. This was an awesome T13! Well done. :)

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