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Worthwhile But Useless Wisdom

A break from the serious stuff.

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Have you ever wanted to know some complete useless facts that you will probably never use over the course of your life? I know I have. You can use these facts as a conversation starter or an icebreaker. Maybe when you need to break an awkward silence you can just blurt one of these facts out instead! I could go on and on with useless trivia. Fortunately, so as not to waste your time, I've compiled a list and shortened it to just twenty must-know facts.

1. Raspberries make great Lego helmets and hair.

2. When you yawn and stretch at the same time, it's called pandiculating.

3. Booby trap spelled backwards is party boob.

4. Armadillos can only give birth to quadruplets.

5. The technical term for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

Talk about a tongue twister...

6. The sleeve you put on a hot coffee cup is called a zarf, which, in Turkish, literally means envelope.

7. A group of pugs is called a grumble.

8. Maine is the only state name with one syllable.

9. The pound key on your phone (or for the younger generation, a hashtag) is called an octotroph or an octothorpe.

10. The coccyx is the only functionless bone in the human body (and there are over two hundred bones).

11. We are graced on this earth with dogs, but have done nothing to deserve their heavenly presence.

12. Trees are the largest living organisms on Earth today.

13. In the South Pole, every direction you look is North.

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