Useless Information

February 2025

Ground up South American cochineal beetles are used as a red coloring in several different foods, such as Yoplait yogurts, Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts, and Starbucks Strawberries and Cream Frappuccino mix.

Dinosaurs may have become extinct from their own gas emissions. An estimated 520 million tons of methane gas a year were produced by the giant beasts, enough to cause global warming and their own demise.

Researchers at MIT have invented a coating for plastic bottles that is so slippery that every last bit of ketchup will flow right out of the container.

The germiest thing commonly touched in public places is the handle of a gas pump. Seventy-one percent of pumps tested were covered in nasty bacteria, such as E. coli and Salmonella. The next two germiest things are escalator rails and ATM buttons.

The oldest living thing may have been a bacteria sample taken from Siberian permafrost that survived for 400,000 to 600,000 years.

Horsepower is technically defined as the amount of power required to lift 33,000 pounds by one foot in one minute. By this definition, the average horse only boasts 0.7 horse-power.

Borrowed by Daheap from The Extraordinary Book of Useless Information;Don Voorhees