Useless Information
September 2024
- General George Patton competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, finishing fifth in the pentathlon.
- Michael Jordan wore his college team basketball shorts under his Chicago Bulls shorts for luck. (As if he needed it.)
- The Belmont Stakes is the oldest of the Triple Crown races, having been first run in 1867.
- Studies have revealed that parts of a woman’s brain turn off when she has an orgasm, specifically the area responsible for fear and anxiety. Men’s orgasms were also studied, but enough data wasn’t available because the men climaxed too quickly.
- Scientists can now harvest stem cells from extracted wisdom teeth.
- The average adult has about six pounds of skin.
- Rubbing your skin after you bump into something helps to ease the pain because the signals sent to the brain from doing so interfere with the pain signals.
Borrowed by Daheap from The Perfectly Useless Book of Useless Information; Don Voorhees