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Mailbag: The Iggles Edition

Here’s a few useless facts for you.

  • Cats can’t taste sweet things.
  • The longest words you can type using only your left hand are “tesseradecades,” “aftercataracts,” and “sweaterdresses.”
  • The fingernails on your dominant hand grow faster than your non-dominant hand.
  • A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time, equal to the amount of time it takes light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum (approximately 33.4 picoseconds).
  • There is only one state capital in the US without a McDonald’s - Montpelier, VT.
  • A Michigan State University research team found that roller coasters can assist in passing kidney stones, and that the rear of the coaster is far more effective than the front in this regard.