A #thread of utterly useless facts, that would entertain you nonetheless.

1. The 'a' debacle

No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in its form .

Unless you reside within the United Kingdom where it's proper to write down 101 as "one hundred and one," there's no number from 1 to 999 that has the letter "a" in its form . One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty…

you'll keep going, but you will not find the primary letter within the alphabet until you hit "one thousand.

2. Snails can sleep up to 3 years.

3. The Greek National Anthem has 158 stanzas. Nobody in Greece has memorized all of them.

4. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

5. Birds don't urinate.

Birds don't have a Urethra. All their waste is converted to Uric acid and expelled through their anus.

6. The Human Thigh bone is stronger than concrete.

The human bone's density and overall structure makes it stronger than concrete. Human bones can resist about 40 times more stress than concrete and can in principle, bare a load of 8,618 Kg. – making it 4 times as strong as concrete per cubic inch.

7. The number 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle, is the correct place where you have to tap the bottle to remove the ketchup smoothly. It is called the “ sweet spot”.

8. Ever wondered why there’s a hole at the top of a pen cap? It’s to avoid choking in case a kid swallows it accidentally. It will allow the air to pass through the lungs.

9. The correct use of hole on the panhandle.

10. When girls say “no one talks to me” they mean that “no handsome guy talks to me” so you need not to worry about dragging your ugly ass into her DMs trying to make her feel nice.

11. Around 20% of the world's oxygen is produced by the Amazon.

12. If you search for “241543903” in Google images, you will find a lot of pictures of people putting their heads in Refrigerators.

13. Cows and Moonshine

During the Prohibition era, these crazy shoes helped Moonshiners evade the police:

During the years of Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933), it was illegal to sell, transport or brew any sort of alcohol. Thus, giving rise to the era of Moonshine (ie, a home-distilled whiskey) which was often secretly brewed in backwoods locations.

To disguise their tracks, moonshiners evaded law enforcement by wearing these cow shoes through the woods. They were made by carving blocks of wood to resemble the hoof of a cow, then tacked to a metal strip and attached to the bottom of a shoe.

14. Bulletproof Pizza Guy

The bulletproof vest was actually invented by former U.S. Marine and pizza delivery owner/driver Richard Davis.

Davis developed the idea of a bulletproof vest after shooting three armed robbers in self-defense during a delivery.

He shot himself 190 times during testing to prove that his invention actually worked.

15. Filthy Bastards

In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.

16. ‘Go.’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

17. Coca cola was originally green.

Yes, the original colour of your favorite carbonated drink was Green, it started as a simple refreshing draught at dispensaries before becoming the global symbol for casual refreshment that it is today.

It was invented by Biochemist John Stith Pemberton.

18. The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 and it was made of wood.

It was invented by Douglas Engelbart who died on July 2, 2013.

19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

20. Installed in 1410, the world's oldest astronomical clock still in operation is in Prague.

It is also known as 'The Jewel of Prague'