Useless Information

January 2025

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible starting positions on a Rubik’s Cube.

Originally, Saran Wrap had a greenish tint and an unpleasant odor. The chemical it was made from was also sprayed on fighter planes and car upholstery to weatherproof them.

Men with post-orgasmic illness syndrome are allergic to their own semen. Sufferers may experience runny nose, burning eyes, feverish-for up to a week. Hyposensitization therapy may help reduce its impact.

About 25 percent of the people on Earth host parasitic worms.

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is a nerve disorder that causes severe burning pain in the limbs, as if the sufferer were on fire. It can be triggered by a stroke or surgery and has no cure, although treatment can lessen the symptoms.

Five hundred thousand children a year worldwide go blind from vitamin D deficiency.

Infants probably start learning language in the womb. Three-day-old German babies cry with falling tones, like the spoken German, while three-day-old French infants cry with a rising intonation, like spoken French.

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