Top 10 Strange Facts

By: Alison Miller

Posted: 6/25/09

Take a break from the bores of schoolwork and fill your brain with some useless trivia facts, because you never know when they might come in handy.

10. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

9. The kangaroo rat can last longer without water than a camel.

8. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

7. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind can damage their spacesuit.

6. The city of Tokyo sells toupees for dogs.

5. Lobsters have blue blood.

4. There are more plastic flamingos in the United States than real ones.

3. It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.

2. In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner-related accidents in the United States.

1. It takes a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.