Here is this week’s edition of “Useless Friday Info”:
“One square inch of skin on the human hand contains some 72 feet of nerve fiber. There is a total of 45 miles of nerves in the skin.”
“Your nails grow faster in outer space.”
“1965-Sony introduces Betamax, a small home video recorder, which later loses out to the VHS machine.”
“1980-CNN, the Cable News Network, is born. It’s followed by MTV.”
“The guy featured in the NBA logo is former Laker, Jerry West.”
“Go” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.”
“On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens each year.”
“If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.”
“A person sheds about 1.5 million skin flakes an hours, most of which becomes embedded in our carpets.”
“Pumpkin halves were supposedly used as guides for haircuts in colonial New Haven, Connecticut, giving rise to the nickname pumpkinhead.”
