Stupid Facts

• Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
  
  
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
  
  
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
  
  
• The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
  
  
• Leonard Da Vinci invented scissors.
  
  
• It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
  
  
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  
  
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  
  
• The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
  
  
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  
  
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
  (see Coins and Currency)
  
  
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
  
  
• In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
  
  
• Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
  
  
• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition.
  
  
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  
  
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."