Ten More Things You Don't Really Need To Know

Here's ten more useless but interesting facts for you to ponder over.

1.In 2002, Elvis Presly's face was fused over Washington's on a collector's edition of the Tennesee quarter.

2.Babylon's supposed ruins lay only six miles from Iraq's Hilla chemical arsenal.

3.In 1902, you could purchase "Cocaine Toothache Drops" for fifteen cents.

4.Harvey Ball's smiley face icon earned him only forty five dollars because he never got it trademarked. (You know, the one on Forrest Gump.)

5.The word "noogies" first appeared in the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2001.

6.Ecuador invented the Panama hat.

7."Furbelow" is another word for ruffle.

8.The Cambodian alphabet has seventy two characters.

9.In the Netherlands, "dutch" is deemed an ethnic slur and officials there were ordered to stop using it in 1934.

10.In the early days of the Holiday Inn every room was equipped with a trampoline. They quit this when a kid crashed threw founder Kemmons Wilson's office window.

Have a great day!