15 Really Usefully Useless Facts

15 really usefully useless facts because most of us love something totally useless.

1                     You burn 3.5 calories each time you laugh.

2                     The delightful expression ‘kick my arse’ is thought to date back to 1705.

3                     More than 500 peanuts are used to make a jar of peanut butter.

4                     Japan is the largest exporter of frogs’ legs.

5                     One in ten people in the world live on an island.

6                     Our ability to taste fades with age.

7                     Flushing a toilet costs on average 1.5p.

8                     A person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper each day.

9                     At the age of 35, a human will start to loose approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. They are never replaced.

10                 Most toilets flush in the key of E flat.

11                 Between 4 and 5 people are born every second and 2 people die.

12                 Britons throw away enough rubbish every hour to fill the Royal Albert Hall.

13                 People read 25% slower from a computer screen than from paper.

14                 The space between your eyebrows is called glabella.

15                 Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils.

And you can stop flaring, or not flaring, your nostrils now.