Interesting but useless facts

Useless facts:

In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.

There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.

0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.

A single sausage measuring 5,917 feet (1,804 m) in length was cooked in Barcelona, Spain on September 22, 1986.

There is a church in Spain that allows worshippers to make donations via a credit card terminal.

The Eiffel tower in France varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches.

A national campaign against swearing has started in Holland. Railway stations have started to display signs that say, “Missed your train? Cursing doesn’t help!”

When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it’s the bell.

In ancient Scotland, every leap year maidens were allowed to ask a man to be her husband, refusal cost him a pound.

Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark.

Until 1965, driving in Sweden was done on the left-hand side of the road. The conversion was done on a weekday at 5:00 p.m. This was supposed to prevent people from waking up in the morning and forgetting which side of the road to drive on.

Updated: August 25, 2002 — 4:47 am