Useless Facts

Is that spelling with a silent “G” then?

It does if you pronounce it correctly.

The US Budget is calculated in mills, which is one tenth of a cent.

Your head is as long as your forearm.

The company that makes Pine-Sol owns the house it was originally created in, located in Middletown NJ.

Taft was the last President with facial hair.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

The two lions in front of the New York Public Library are currently named Patience and Fortitude.

Mozambique has an AK-47 assault rifle on its flag.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Clinton did not have sex with Monica whatsername

Big puffy pouf-shaped clouds aren’t really flat-bottomed: the bottom is just invisible. The pouf of wet air is completely pouf-shaped, but the bottom looks flat because the water in the air only appears when its cold enough to condense out of the air. The plane in the sky where the ‘bottom’ of the cloud appears is where the air temp gets down to the dew point and the water appears. Magic!