17 Useful Pub Quiz Facts

Here are 17 facts that may come in handy in a pub quiz but useless in real life.

1. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

2. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid...I'm not making this up, look it up.

3. If the population of China walked past you in a single file line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

4. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

5. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily, on average!

6. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

7. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

8. If you pour a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

9. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

10. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

11. Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.

12. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

13. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

14. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

15. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

16. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

17. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.