Useless Information

March 2025

With faces standing 60 feet tall and 500 feet up, The Mount Rushmore National Monument is the largest art object in the world.

Hong Kong has the world’s largest double-decker bus fleet in the world. The world’s largest coffeepot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 feet tall, is made of sheet metal, and can hold 150,000 eight-ounce cups of coffee.

The smallest fish in the world is the Paedocypris progenetica, a member of the carp family, which is found in Indonesia and Sumatra. It grows to 0.31 inches in length.

Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language — 823 words without a period.

More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret.

The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana as a remedy for dysentery. The Chinese invented eyeglasses. Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs worn by the Chinese as early as 1275, 500 years before lens grinding became an art in the west.

The windmill originated in Iran in AD 644 and was used to grind grain.

Borrowed by Daheap from The Amazing Book of Useless Information; Noel Botham & The Useless Information Society