Day 108

[schadenfreude]

April 18, 2017 - Completely Useless Facts

• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
  
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  
• "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  
• No word in in the English language rhymes with "month".
  
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  
• Money isn't made from paper, it's made from cotton.
  
• In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as medicine.
  
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
  

Comments

[nekhbet_love]

So very interesting! No clocks in Las Vegas casinos, very smart.

Ketchup is also a good cleaner for metal, I saw it yesterday on tv.

But, as a medicine, for what, do you know?

Hahaha, of course the dating thing is very close to the cheating thing.... hahah.

[schadenfreude]

Here in North America, up until the 1830's, people believed tomatoes were poisonous. Then a medical journal published a paper that dispelled the theory and suggested that tomatoes were good for digestion. So, some enterprising con artist used tomato extract, basically ketchup, and sold it as a dietary aid.

And, I honestly believe that online dating is the bar/club scene of the 21st century. :-D