I have absolutely nothing of interest to say today, so I went to Bored.com and found some random trivia for you to enjoy on this Thursday:

1. Facetious
and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct
order.

2. “Mad
About You” star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show’s theme song.

3. “Taxi”
is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese,
and Dutch.

4. “The
sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue
twister in English.

5. 1 in 5,000
north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

6. 11% of the
world is left-handed.

7. 111, 111,
111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321

8. 22,000
checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

9. 315 entries
in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

10. 40% of
McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

11. In Disney’s
Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey
played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.

12. 85% of men
who die of heart attacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on
their wives.

13. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North
America, it’s 38%.

14. Charlie
Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

15. A 1.5 oz.
milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips
has 230 calories.

16. A acre of
coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts
to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.

17. A bee could
travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it
would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down
on and enjoy that honey properly.  (This
one made me think of Terri!)

18. A chef’s
hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the
kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the
head cool.

19. A
chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.

20. A healthy
(non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

21. A giraffe
can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.