Useless facts for your Thanksgiving table

If you want to wow and amaze your friends and family this Thanksgiving, throw these useless facts at them...

• 25% of the world's population lives on less than $200 a YEAR (now you know you have something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving)
• the longest record flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• a dairy cow produces 100,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime
• a snail can sleep for 3 years (mmmm...I love sleep...)
• the first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word you can spell using only letters from one row of your keyboard
• STEWARDESSES is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand (although it's no longer "politically correct")
• Shakespear invented the words "assassination" and "bump"
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
• a raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top (I wanna try this!)
• apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
• the average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows
• almonds are members of the peach family
• The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts (I like the idea of our kids only getting 3 gifts from us for Christmas...just like Jesus did! We want them to be content with less "stuff." We'll see if that tradition lasts...)

A couple of fun party tricks: it's impossible to lick your elbow. Also, you can't physically eat 5 saltines (no liquids allowed) in less than 60 seconds. All of your crazy uncles or brothers-in-law will have fun with those.

Now go...enjoy your holidays with a brain full of a few more useless facts. Except that apples are more effecient at waking you up than caffeine. Please try it and get back to me, my coffee addicted friends!