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OK here's some really DUMB stuff I wouldn't want to catch anyone doing... myself included:

• Taking a two-year old to the movies.
• Insulting a guy with a neck bigger than your head.
• Giving the finger to a guy who's carjacking you.
• Eating partially cooked chicken.
• Freely givng out your Social Security number.
• Mixing alcohol and barbituates.
• Flame emailing the Pentagon.
• Telling Bubba the lifer at San Quentin he's hung like a cocktail weenie.
• Marrying Lorena Bobbitt.
• Dining with the late Jeffery Dahmer.
• Chuging a beer in the front seat of your car while a cop is beside you.
• Offering to be in a threesome with Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche.
• Playing Marilyn Manson in front of a Bible thumper.
• Cleaning a fully loaded .44 Magnum.

Hey if you have any idea about dumb stuff, send them to The Nationwide Cloud R&D Department.

Hey... have a little fun prompting yourself. I don't care what you type in, 'cause it's YOUR computer and it's your room that you're sitting in right?? Just have a bit o' fun guys...

OK here are some random facts dug up...

• Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid credit cards.
• In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.
• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
• In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.
• In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
• An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
• Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
• In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
• When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
• Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
• Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
• Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
• The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
• Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.
• "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (so is "I do.")
• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air,the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%... Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
• City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
• Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
• The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• More capital cities begin with B than any other letter: Berlin, Bern, Bonn, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Baghdad, Bratislava, Brussels, Belgrade, Bogota and of course Belfast.
• The world record for cow-chip tossing (under the strict non-sphericalization and 100% organic rule of 1986) is 56.70 meters.
• Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
• There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
• The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. (That makes only 3 PEOPLE ON EARTH!!)
• If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letters is "uncopyrightable".
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of your when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, the engineers forgot to take into account the weight of the books that would occupy the building.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the term "to get fired."
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl.
• It's possible to lead a cow up stairs... but not down stairs.
• Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds have become extinct.
• "Vang" is the most common surname among the Hmong people of Laos.
• The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers.
• The last Playboy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985. Venice Kong was the model.
• The first Marvel Comics super hero was the Human Torch.
• On the stone temples of Madura in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.
• There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
• In ancient Egyptian Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
• The flag of the U.K. is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from a ship.
• The Sitka spruce is Britain's most commonly planted tree.
• Of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all named after artists and / or sculptors, Donatello does not occur in the same time period as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.
• The main export of Jamaica is bauxite, which used in making aluminum.
• Will Clark hit a homerun in his first at-bat in college, the Olympics, and the Major Leagues.
• An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
• The original Guiness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland has a six thousand-year lease.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create an atomic bomb.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (So what are you waiting for?)
• Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Hmm............)
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. (Surprised?)
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Left-handies take note!!)
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
• An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
• There are more brown M&M's in plain M&M's than in Peanuts.
• A dime has 118 ridges on the outside
• Ramses condoms are named after Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children
• The French writer Voltaire drank more than 70 cups of coffee each day
• Sonny and Cher originally called themselves Cleo and Caesar
• The longest word in Shakespeare's plays is "honorificabilitudinitatibus" (whatever that means)
• "You're a grand old flag" was originally titled "You're a grand old rag"

Here's some useless facts about our animal cousins:

• The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. It's name was Fred.
• You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in 1991.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
• Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
• Smartest dogs: 1)Scottish border collie 2)Poodle 3)Golden Retriever... Dumbest: Afghan hound.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
• The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widows or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.
• The South American Electric Eel can produce almost 1 Amp of current.
• A ducks quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• Starfishes have no brains.
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (not sure how they found this out?? hmmmmm.......)
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (How do they know that????)
• Polar bears are left handed. (ever tried shaking hands with the polar bears?!)
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish ranked #1 for the animal having the most taste buds.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. (of course!)
• A gorilla's penis is 1/3 that of a human. (Flaccid or Erected? wonder who's the brave guy who did the measuring?)
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Now, that's the real reason why they're the kings of animal kingdom.)
• The giraffe has a black tongue that is 14 inches long and about no vocal cords.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (Too heavy lah!)
• A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. (Got special ingredients ah???)
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• A fish has a memory of 3 seconds.
• Female canaries cannot sing.
• Goldfish remember more in cold water than in warm water.

Some Facts About Americans. Did You Know That...

• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
• 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
• An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.
• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
• About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
• It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
• Every day, an estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity.
• America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
• In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.
• In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
• 1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.
• About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.
• The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games in the USA (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
• The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
• Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%
• Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
• Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
• Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
• In the United States there are more 2nd streets than there are 1st streets, and Main street is not the most common; Pine is.
• Pierre, South Dakota is the only example of a state and capital in the U.S. that don t share any letters.
• Arizona requires it's citizens to register with the state before going into the business of selling cocaine, marijuana, heroin or other illegal drugs.
• In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
• 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
• Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
• Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
• Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C".
• There are more Samoans in Los Angeles than on American Samoa.
• Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
• There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
• 21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do.
• Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
• 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
• 85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.
• 67.5% of men were briefs.
• The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago it was a 34B.
• 85% of women wear the wrong bra size.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Since World War II, every American president to address the Canadian House of Commons in their first term of office have all been re-elected to a second term. Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton have all had the honor, while Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, and Bush did not address the parliament.
• Over 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
• Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
• Maine is the only state in the US with a one-syllable name
• In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

If you happen to know any useless facts that aren't on this list send them to The Nationwide Cloud R&D Department and we'll get 'em up on this list.