The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

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Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

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The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

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The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

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Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.

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Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

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There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

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Octopi have gardens.

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"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"

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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

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'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

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'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'

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When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

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Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.