Stupid Facts

• The "black box" in commercial airliners is actually orange.
  (see Commercial Jet Airliners)

• 79% of Native Americans have type O blood.
  (see Blood Types)

• Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians.

• The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

• There is a city called Rome on every continent.

• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies bathroom.

• "Spheno Palatine Gangleoneuralgia" is the technical term for an ice cream headache.

• Bottled water costs about 1,000 times more than tap water.

• The acid in a vulture's stomach can dissolve a nail.

• The three wise men were named Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.

• Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again Sam" in the film Casablanca.
  (see Academy Award Winners)

• Venus rotates in the opposite direction from the other planets.
  (see Solar System)

• Tapeworms can grow to 80 feet long.

• A dragonfly can fly backwards just as fast as it can forwards.