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

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The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born

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Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of nerves

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The Chinese lettered goldfish is covered with Chinese characters, achieved through thousands of years of crossbreeding

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A typical double-bed mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites (Demodex folliculorom)

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Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital

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Americans pay over $30,500 in federal, state, and local taxes every second

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The amount of gold dissolved in the oceans is nearly ten million tons, which is about 180 times the total amount of gold dug in mines in the entire history of humanity

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Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830s it was sold as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of Tomato

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Because it has no backbone, a seventy-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole the size of a silver dollar

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If each count were one second long, it would take about twelve days to count to a million and thirty-two years to count to a billion

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A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England

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Proportionally speaking, the earth is smoother than a billiard ball

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Soccer players who head the ball 10 or more times per game have an average IQ of 103. Those who head the ball once or less have an average IQ of 112

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Traveling at the speed of the fastest elevator in the Empire State Building, it would take 30 minutes to reach the bottom of the Marianas Trench

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In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday is an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S. Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again