Random and useless facts....

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.

While in some countries the penalty for driving while intoxicated can be death (yes, death), in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving. "Please believe me officer, I really was drunk."

According to the federal Center for Substance Abuse prevention, "For kids under twenty-one, there is no difference between alcohol and other drug use and abuse." Incredibly, it makes no distinction between a self-reliant 20 year old toasting his love at their wedding reception with a sip of champagne and a drug-addicted 20 year old doing crack cocaine!

One lady had her husband's ashes made into an egg timer so that even in death he can still "help" in the kitchen.

The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865.

It is commonly understood that Paul Revere said "The british are coming, the british are coming."

However, Revere never said "The British are coming," this would have made no sense at the time since they considered themselves British.

Revere instead said, "The Regulars are coming out! The Regulars are coming out!" But, that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

 Have you ever been so absorbed in a book or tv that you weren't aware of somebody entering or leaving the room? This is one of many definitions of a trance state

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

What color is a polar bear
Polar bears really have black skin and their fur isn't white it is a see through

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis(which means lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust)

There is a two-foot long bird called the Kea. The kea lives in New Zealand and just loves to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

The worlds most smallest octopus, the Blue Ring, is also the worlds most poisonous.
More than 40,000 people each year die from Toilet Injuries. These could be from drowning in the toilet to tripping and knocking their head on the toilet.

The ball of chewed food in your mouth (before you swallow) is called a bolus. Introduce this fact to the dinner table in polite company.