More Useless Garbage!

You all know that I'm the King of Useless Information, right? And as your king, I willingly distribute my wealth of useless facts to the peasantry with grace and dignity. So, to keep my popular public image, I should probably dish out a few more, huh? Here's some more facts for the huddled masses (you).

-Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
-Calvin and Hobbes: Hobbes originally had pads on his hands and feet but Bill Waterson (the creator) found them too distracting and removed them.
-In the name of art, Chris Burden arranged to be shot by a friend while another person photographed the event. He sold the series of pictures to an art dealer. He made $1750 on the deal, but his hospital bill was $84,000.
-In Britain’s House of Commons, the government and opposition sides of the House are separated by two red lines. The distance between the lines is two swords’ lengths, a reminder of just how seriously the Brits used to take their politics.
-The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
-If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.
-The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built. No one died.
-The Chinese national anthem is called "The March of Volunteers."
-Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
-According to Dennis Changon, spokesman for the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, Canada - if all of the commercial planes in the world were grounded at the same time there wouldn't be space to park them all at gates.
-Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.
-Before settling on the name of Tiny Tim for his character in "A Christmas Carol", three other alliterative names were considered by Charles Dickens. They were: Little Larry, Puny Pete and Small Sam.
-Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
-The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
-A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
-On dry, windy days, pollen can travel up to 500 miles.

Well, there ya have it. Let me know if you want more in the future. Thank you, loyal subjects.