Useless Information

[Kella]

Okay I don't know if this subject belongs in here but oh well. I just wanted to see who knows the most useless information. So just post the most useless facts that nobody really needs to know about but are interesting. For example: Did you know that in Mexico if you dont like beans they consider you a mutant?

[Kaylan-R]

Did u know that a 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second??!

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

The phrase "Oh is that what it means? Never mind, then," is actually copyrighted by Johnny Carson and NBC. Anytime somebody says those words on television, they owe NBC and its subsidiaries $12,500. Nobody has said it however since Howard Cosell in a 1983 taping of Monday Night Football on ABC!

Sarcasm didn't exist the way we know it today until 1784!

[Dark One]

"Hello" wasn't a common greeting until the invention of the telephone

[me]

A South Korean movie theater owner decided that the movie The Sound of Music was too long. His solution? He shortened the movie by cutting out all of the musical scenes!

[me]

I was bored so I thought I might search on the internet for some interesting ones and there is a lot of boring ones out there that no one ever needs to know. But here are some of them
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
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. (This is for all you Americans)
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th'
sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman
occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th"
sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the
Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
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.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh
enuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.

And I have just proven that I have no life but I have glandular fever so I have an excuse.

[Kaylan-R]

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Thai researchers have succeeded in generating electricity from natural gas made from elephant dung. --Universal Press Syndicate

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.

[Dragon]

I'm glad this thread is here, i've got load of useless info to post!

The most used letter in the English language is E, and Q is the least used (useful if you were on wheel of fortune) =P

The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set on ropes woven through the bed frame. A bed key was used to tighten sagging ropes.

It costs more to buy a car these days than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and make three voyages to the new world.

Tweety (cartoon bird) used to be a bay bird without feathers until the censors made him have feathers because he looked naked.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

I have more...but i will return later. Enjoy reading (and wondering)

[Kaylan-R]

LOL that war fact was on those random facts on pad paper lol

[Fuil Dearg]

dolphin milk has 40% fat.

tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.

there is a species of dolphin which is always awake and always asleep. i think it's a river dolphin but im not sure. the right side of it's brain is awake while the left side sleeps and vise versa.

dolphin's use echo location and, atleast in theory, they can see inside you're body if u are in the water with them and so can tell if u are sick and how.

there are many elements inside the sun and many being formed inside the sun, including gold.

[Kella]

LOL see you learn something new everyday. The fact that it's completely useless should mean something but it's fun anyway.
More useless tibits:
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- A crocodile can't stick out it's tongue.
- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
- A typical bed is usually home to over 6 billion dust mites.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- On average, 13 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- Cats have better memories than dogs.

I think that's enough for now.

[Siryn]

wow, you guys would be great team mates on a Quiz night!
the only thing i can think of is that the elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

[basicneeds]

the longest recorded flight of a chicken is 3.45 seconds
YAY for chickens

[MarumanYelloweyes]

That Nini is not my actual name. It's Nindya. ;D Weird name, I know.

[Wh|te Fyre]

we had several of these in sus rid...

- dogs have over a hundred vocal sounds, while cats only have about 9.

[Dragon]

*sneaks back in*

In Egypt, around 1500BC, a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their head with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.

In the movie Toy Story, the carpet in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet design in the Shining.

The most popular sport as a topic for film is boxing.

The plastic things on the end of laces are called aglets.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws push your thumbs into its eyeballs, it will let go instantly.

Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star at the age of five.

Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.

[Wh|te Fyre]

The Song "Happy Birthday To You" used to be sung in children to teachers with different lyrics:
"Good morning to you, good morning to you, good morning dear teachers, good morning to you!"

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a few have disappeared...

[Sezzaxox]

Every year in your sleep you will eat about 7 bugs of some type and atleast 1 sipder

I have lived in 8 houses and flats, and 2 countries other than australia.

[Dragon]

The expression 'getting someones goat' is based on the custom of keeping a goat in the stable with a race horse as a companion and settling influence. If the owner of a competing horse was not above some dirty business, they could steal their rivals goat to upset the other horse and make it run a poor race. Hence, in order to upset someone, get their goat.

When Beethoven was a child, he made such a poor impression on his music teachers that he was pronounced hopeless as a composer.

The average banana weighs more than 126 grams.

The saying 'its all fun and games until someone looses an eye' originated in ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was no eye gouging. Everything else was allowed but the only was to be disqualified was to gouge somebody's eye out.

Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to re-arrange the other eight reindeer.

The surname of every member of the Bulgarian football team that competed in the 1994 world cup ended in the letters 'ov'.

[Sezzaxox]

'Harry and the Potters' was the First spin-off of Harry Potter Band

[Dark One]

In the UK:

It is against the law to hand a postman a letter. You have to put it in a post box and he will then be able to collect it.

It is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day

It is illegal to be drunk on a licensed premises (ie a pub or bar)

By law, all men over the age of 14 are required to have one hours archery pratice supervised by the local clergy every sunday (England only)

[Fuil Dearg]

i heard that about the archery., before. free archery lessons. *drools*

illegal to eat mince pies on christmas day? wtl? so when do u eat them? i think it's illegal to be drunk in public here but i'm not sure. it used to be illegalhere (Ireland) to drink alcohol in public if the drink was visible. i assumed taht taht was why ppl used to drink out of wine bottles with a paper bag around it. a few years ago it was made illegalto drink alcohol out in the open in public places (unless the place was licenced).

[Kella]

>> Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.

>> The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

>> Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles (299,274 km) per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles (1,126 km) per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles (20,917 km) away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

>> Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

>> The bagpipe was originally made from the liver of a dead sheep.

>> Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

>> The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

[Dragon]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Albert Einstein's last words were is German. Since the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.

The term 'cop' comes from England, meaning Constable on Patrol.

If a surgeon in ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing surgery, his hands were cut off.

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

The original name for a butterfly was a flutterby.

Pluto, the astrological sign that represents death, was directly above Dallas Texas when John F. Kennedy was born.

[muzz]

More useless facts - Iceland is green and Greenland is ice . Tell me people why is Iceland named Iceland is it cos
a) it ice
b) its green or
c) the English language had misinterpreted the word

Answer coming soon...

[Cat-Eyes]

But Greenland is greener than where the people who were naming it came from. Also, they probably went there in Spring.

The average woman eats something like 30kg of lipstick in her life.