Useless Information

This is a place for all those facts you're just dying to tell everyone on KnowItAll, but no one's asked yet! Put down all your fascinating useless knowlage here.

Did you know that...

• George W. Bush is Dan Quale with a mean streak
• The star cluster Pleadeis, that we call the Seven Sisters, is actually over 250 stars.
• the month September is National Bed Check Month, National Piano Month and National Chicken Month
• On August 8, 1998, 1180 people gathered and broke the world's record for the most people brushing their teeth at the same time.
• Koalas don't have eyelids or tails.
• Australia did not have any members of the cat family, any hoofed animals or any monkeys or apes until those animals were imported.
• 'bastard' originated as the name peopled called children who no one knew who there fathers were
• the pop band Backstreet Boys released their album 'Millennium' on May 18, 1999
• "jollification" is a real word
• the best parmesean cheese is bel giorno (something like that anyway) and it comes from little brown cows in italy who's milk has 2% more milkfat than any others. it costs $18.95 american a pound, according to a talkative waiter at a very nice italian restauant in santa barbara CA.
• An ostriches eye is bigger than its brain.

add on! I know so much usless information, and most of the things I know I have passed on to my friend, and he has made a web site, containing all my knowledge, and his. it's just about the cooliest thing you'll ever come across. you people better check it out. it's also got lots of other funny stuff. the url is http://www.uselessfactoids.homestead.com/ thanky. much abliged. lots of other forms of thank you. Brent

A whales penis is called a dork