10 Mostly Worthless Facts1. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Don't try this at home butmaybe at work.)
2. At 3,365 miles long, Route 20 is the longest highway in the U.S.
3. Each day is 0.00000002 seconds longer than the one before because the Earth is gradually slowing down.
4. There is a law in Wisconsin that says, after 3 a.m., you have to send a rocket signal into the air after every mile you drive, then wait a minute for a response.
5. In Texas, criminals are required to give their victims 24 hours notice, either verbally or in writing, to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
6. In Tennessee, it is illegal to shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.
7. Cleveland law forbids you to operate a motor vehicle while sitting in another person's lap.
8. In Lefors, Texas, it is illegal to take more than three swallows of beer at any time while standing.
9. Almost 25 percent of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
10. An NHRA Top Fuel dragster leaves the starting line with a force nearly five times that of gravity, the same force of the Space Shuttle when it leaves the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
Say What?The staff speaks and you listen. It'sthat simple. This month's question is:
Mike: Back in the day, I body-dropped my Toyota with the help of my roommate, Troll. We worked on the truck every night after work in my parent's garage. The parents were a little pissed that I pushed their Corvette and boat out into the driveway during winter in New York to work on my truck, but I was on a mission to make the Taco lower. Anyway, the night that I cut out the bed floor, raised it up, and was ready to weld it back to the inside bed walls, Troll happened to be out on a date with his ferret-faced girlfriend. I needed a way to clamp the walls back together, where I'd cut them while I MIG-welded the metal back together, but I had a weak tool set and no sheetmetal clamps. I looked all through my dad's tools to find something to hold the metal together long enough to get my weld on, but I was stumped. At about midnight, I gave up and went back inside the house to have a beer. As I sat in the living room watching Beavis and Butthead on the tube by the fireplace, I spied the brass rack that held the fireplace utensils. There was a long pair of brass tongs used to pick up logs for the fire, and I realized the jaws were long enough to go around the bed sides and hold the metal together. I grabbed the tongs, ran back to the garage, and found that it was the perfect tool for the job. The only problem was I still needed another pair of hands to hold the tongs together tightly while I welded. I ended up using duct tape to hold the handles of the tongs together and welded the entire bed floor back in place while my roommate made out with his chick. That, my friends, is my MacGyver moment.