Useless Information

July 2024

• The largest freshwater fish in the United States is the alligator gar. A 327-pound specimen was caught in the Mississippi River in 2011.
• The average person uses 8.6 sheets of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom and a total of fifty-seven sheets a day.
• In 2011, Apple Computer had more operating cash on hand than the U.S. Treasury – $76.2 billion versus $73.8 billion.
• Only 16 percent of all board seats at Fortune 500 companies are held by women.
• Seventy-two percent of grocery store shopping carts have traces of fecal matter on their handles.
• Americans throw away about 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
• People who spend six hours a day watching television live about five years less than those who don’t watch any TV.
• Prescription painkillers kill two people every hour in the United States and send about forty to the emergency room from overdoses.