Mark's Extensive and Exhaustively Researched Gallery of Completely, Totally, and Utterly and really Odd Useless Facts No piece of paper can be folded more than 9 times. The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music. Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000% A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, their have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilised world A golf ball has 360 dimples 400-quarter pounders can be made out of one cow A car travelling at 80km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance A full loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop There is no synonym for Thesaurus. 14 odd Facts |