This is a great way to pass a few minutes…
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=38251
…although, some of these aren’t true (no. 158, for example: rhinos or sloths fall into this category too).
Just thought I’d share. 
Hope everyone is having a good morning/day!
Rhinos can, and frequently do when they’re little. Not sure about sloths though…
301 useless facts…
A very liberal use of the word “facts” They both can jump BTW.
But how do you define “jump”? Does a whale “jump” in the normal sense of the word?
Item 13. I’m not sure about Japanese, but in Chinese, the written character for the number 4 is very similar to the written character for Death. That’s what makes it unlucky. Don’t even try to sell your house to a Chinese family if you have a 4 in the address.
Item 133. Is nonsense. There was never an American flag on a Canadian two-dollar bill. Most Americans don’t even know there is such a thing as the American two-dollar bill, probably because it is only seen at race tracks.
Item 207. Apparently I am responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, and highly suspect for Chernobyl. 
djm
Seems like you are giving us the bird.
By definition, whales do not jump. They have no legs, just tiny remnant bones that used to be legs… way back when they most likely could jump… or at the very least, hop. 
That’s how they got back in the water, jumped in, that counts.
#198 is in part untrue. Da Vinci is attributed by some to have invented scissors, but evidence refutes this. The earliest known show up in the Middle East 3000-4000 years ago. The Romans are considered to have first developed the cross-bladed scissors around 100 A.D.
I’m not sure about the Chinese, but for the Japanese “death” and “four” have the same on’yomi (“Chinese reading”) pronunciations: shi. The characters are not similar in any way, and since the Japanese use Chinese characters as part of their writing system, I’d check up on that. It’s more likely that the Chinese pronunciations are what are similar, not the characters.
Okay, I checked Wikipedia and got these fun facts:
"Number 4 (四; accounting 肆; pinyin sì) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese cultures because it is a homonym with the word "death" (死 pinyin sǐ). Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the "4": e.g. Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4), Palm[citation needed] PDAs, Canon PowerShot G[citation needed]'s series (after G3 goes G5), etc. In East Asia, some buildings do not have a 4th floor. (Compare with the American practice of some buildings not having a 13th floor because 13 is considered unlucky.) In Hong Kong, some high-rise residential buildings miss ALL floor numbers with "4", e.g. 4, 14, 24, 34 and all 40-49 floors. As a result, a building whose highest floor is number 50 may actually have only 36 physical floors.
In Singapore during the early 2000s, Alfa Romeo introduced a new model, the 144. Nobody bought it, so they had to change the model number.
Number 14 is considered to be one of the unluckiest numbers in Chinese culture. Although 14 is usually said as 十四 "shí sì," which sounds like 十死 "ten die", it can also be said as 一四 "yī sì" or 么四 "yāo sì", literally "one four". Thus, 14 can also be said as "yāo sì," literally "one four," but it also sounds like "want to die" (要死 pinyin yào sǐ). In Cantonese, 14 sounds like "sap6 sei3", which sounds like "sat6 sei2" meaning "certainly die" (實死).
Ironically, in the Rich Text Format specification, language code 4 is for the Chinese language."Wow, a little research, eh?
Good grief this could go on for ever
No. 173. Has someone actually shaved a tiger to check that out?
Only when it “crouches” … or was that “crapping”? …
djm
301 Useless facts… useless, certainly. Factual, well, it appears that that is coming under some scrutiny. 
Well, yeah. She needed stitches. I particularly like the mongoose/prairie dog comparison #290. Talk about stitches, leaving me in… #299 proves there is a vast right winged conspiracy.
ZIP = Zone Improvement Plan (not Zoning). I remember when they were first implemented in 1963. There was a big public education campaign, with posters in shops and elsewhere.
Snopes debunked the 7-Up dot: http://www.snopes.com/business/names/7up.asp
Counting languages is nonsense. And given the rate of extinction, in the time it took to write the statement, there would have been 41,805 languages.
“Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.” This definitely explains my slim physique.
“A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.” No, but its acerbic wit can be highly insulting.
I’m issuing an open challenge to #242 with:
When Ted said, “Sven, send ten tents”, Sven then said “Ted, send ten cents”; when then Ted sent Sven ten cents, Sven then sent Ted ten tents.
nnyaahhh!
Stop! Stop! You’ll have me in tears! 
djm
…Because it can stick it’s teeth out, instead. That seems more useful, anyway.
254 is wrong in my humble opinion. You sneeze to get the devils out and someone says bless you to stop the devils getting back in. That is much more believable