Useless information

[Monstro]

Just bung it here, never know someone might get a pub quiz question right with it lol



October 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in it, this happens once every 823yrs

[Steve6]

October 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in it, this happens once every 823yrs

That is the most useless of useless information. :twisted:

People thnk the world is flat, but how can it be when there is mountains and hills all over the world? :shrug:

[AndyK]

October 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in it, this happens once every 823yrs

What happens once every 862 years? The 5 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in a month or October having 5 of them? If it's the former then January 2010 had 5 of each as well, as did May 2009 and August 2008.

Anyway, October 2010 only happens once. :p

[daveake]

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

(Good job they don't eat at McDonald's)

[Steve6]

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

(Good job they don't eat at McDonald's)

:lmao:

[Wario]

Here is some great useless info!!!!:



The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

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

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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

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 the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Almonds are members of the peach family.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."

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

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

[meatfanforlife]

Why is it lately that whenever I read Warios posts...I feel my IQ numbers slipping.......O_O

[Julie in the rv mirror]

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The fact that someone determined this means that somebody has too much time on their hands. :lol:

[R.]

Kermit the Frog is left handed. :rly:

[meatfanforlife]

this...falls under the category of useless information methinks...


Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee was just offered the directing/writing job for the new rocky horror remake.

we MUST stop this!

[samurai7]

Peanuts are not actually nuts.

[Pudding]

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day :shock:

[Steve6]

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day :shock:

That wouldn't suprise me in the least. Shocking stuff but true!!!!

[carole]

Penguins are monogamous and mate the same partner for life, and always return to the same burrows, even if they build houses or roads over them. And they are only found in the Southern hemisphere.

Carole

[daveake]

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

When you have a tomcat who likes to "mark" parts of the house when you're not looking, that's not useless information at all!

[Elijah's way]

Alabama state flower, Camellia

[Pudding]

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

[Evil One]

The Moon is the only moon named 'Moon'

[duke knooby]

there is a number of claimed facts in this thread are factually incorrect

[Wario]

there is a number of claimed facts in this thread are factually incorrect

not mine :))

[carole]

not mine :))

Nor mine.

Carole

[AndyK]

there is a number of claimed facts in this thread are factually incorrect
not mine :))


Really?

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


Care to reconsider your claim? :))

[allrevvedup]

maybe he meant the speaker of the house, along with all politicians, shouldn't be allowed to speak!

[CarylB]

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Really? Care to reconsider your claim? :))

lol .. Perhaps his source is confused by the Speaker not taking part in votes, unless there's an equal number of votes, in which case he must vote to maintain the status quo (and not the rock group!)

Another fact about hippos ... they don't swim

Caryl

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: The film Jaws was originally marketed in France as Les Dents de la mer (The Teeth Of The Sea).

However, this became a problem when Jaws 2 came out, because it was then Les Dents de la mer 2, which is fine on a movie poster, but when spoken, Les Dents de la mer deux pretty much translates as The Teeth Of The Shit. :facepalm:

[Pudding]

Another fact about hippos ... they don't swim
Not true. Although adult hippos don't swim, baby hippos do.

In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die

[CarylB]

Not true. Although adult hippos don't swim, baby hippos do.

Yes because they have much greater buoyancy as babies. I was talking about aults

In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die[/I]

MYTH .. just as is the New Zealand myth that they have a straight road to heaven

Caryl

[Pudding]

Yes because they have much greater buoyancy as babies. I was talking about aults

You should be more specific when quoting your useless facts ;)

Aristotle was known to believe that redheads were emotionally unhousebroken. Smart guy Mr.Aristotle :))

[CarylB]

Buridan's jack ass paradox is based on an earlier paradox outlined by Aristotle

[Pudding]

During the Spanish Inquisition flame coloured hair was evidence that its owner had stolen the fire of hell and had to be burned as a witch.

[Evil One]

During the Spanish Inquisition flame coloured hair was evidence that its owner had stolen the fire of hell and had to be burned as a witch.
Depending on the owner in question that could give a brand new meaning to 'You've been through the fires of hell!' :lol:

[RSG]

Not true. Although adult hippos don't swim, baby hippos do.

In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die

That explain why my ex (baby's mom) is like a rose!

Meat sings the word 'that' twenty-five times in the smash hit single 'I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do...)

[Pudding]

In the late 16th century, the fat of a redheaded man was an essential ingredient for poison.
The Egyptians regarded the color as so unlucky that they had a ceremony in which they burned red-headed maidens alive to wipe out the tint.

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: You sure do have a facination for Redheads pud.

I don't know if anybody's noticed, but there is an L in Noel :bleh:

[Pudding]

:twisted: You sure do have a facination for Redheads pud.

Not really. I just googled useless facts and a whole page of redhead stuff came up, would be a shame to see them go to waste.

I don't know if anybody's noticed, but there is an S in fascination :panic:

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: Unless you make a typo? :shrug:

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: I just googled "usless facts" and not a single result was a page about redheads, but here's some stuff that was there..........

A man irate about his income tax paid Uncle Sam with a plaster of Paris check that weighed several pounds. He wasn't all that bright, because once the government cashed the check, it was returned to him and he had to keep it for five years for his records.

Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

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.

Since 1949, the LEGO company, based in Denmark, has produced more than 200,000,000,000 of the plastic elements that make up the Lego System.
There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the 8-studed bricks of one color.
The name LEGO did not (as urban legend has it) come from the cry of an angry mother who couldn't get her kid to put down his toys and come to dinner: "LEGO of those bricks or I'll kill you!" It's from the Danish, "LEg GOdt," which means "play well."

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.

Peter Karpin, a German espionage agent in World War I, was seized by French Intelligence agents in 1914 as soon as he entered the country. Keeping his capture a secret, the French sent faked reports from Karpin to Germany and intercepted the agent's wages and expense money until Karpin escaped in 1917. With those funds the French purchased an automobile, which, in 1919, in occupied Rurh, accidentally ran down and killed a man, who proved to be Peter Karpin.

A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.

[Pudding]

:twisted: I just googled "usless facts" and not a single result was a page about redheads,

I might have googled "useless fats" instead, my spelling mistake.

[Monstro]

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

[Pudding]

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than what it had to begin with.

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: The ancient Greeks had no word for blue.
They refered to the sky as "bronze".
Ancient Greeks were dumb.

Tibbles The Destroyer
Tibbles the cat arrived on Stephens Island in 1894, with her master Mr David Lyall, the new lighthouse keeper.
Quickly getting to grips with the local hunting grounds, Tibbles was soon leaving gifts of dead birds for her master at the lighthouse door.
One such bird proved to be of a kind that Mr Lyall had not seen before, and was in fact a hitherto unknown species.
The discovery quickly found its way to Sir Walter Buller, New Zealand's ornithological expert at the time. A duly excited Buller reported the find to the British Ornithologists' Club in London after classifying the bird as a member of the wren family.
The "Stephens Island Wren" proved to be an important find.
One of only three flightless songbirds in the world, and the only perching flighless bird in the world, ever.

Unfortunatly, before this prize find was verified, Tibbles had wiped the entire species out, killing all ten mating pairs left in existance.

It is the only instance of a species being wiped out by a single individual.

A rather pissed off Buler was to state in 1905.........


...it would be as well if the Marine Department, in sending lighthouse keepers to isolated islands where interesting specimens of native birds are known or believed to exist, were to see that they are not allowed to take any cats with them, even if mouse-traps have to be furnished at the cost of the state.

[Hypnobabe]

:twisted: The ancient Greeks had no word for blue.
They refered to the sky as "bronze".
Ancient Greeks were dumb.

Tibbles The Destroyer
Tibbles the cat arrived on Stephens Island in 1894, with her master Mr David Lyall, the new lighthouse keeper.
Quickly getting to grips with the local hunting grounds, Tibbles was soon leaving gifts of dead birds for her master at the lighthouse door.
One such bird proved to be of a kind that Mr Lyall had not seen before, and was in fact a hitherto unknown species.
The discovery quickly found its way to Sir Walter Buller, New Zealand's ornithological expert at the time. A duly excited Buller reported the find to the British Ornithologists' Club in London after classifying the bird as a member of the wren family.
The "Stephens Island Wren" proved to be an important find.
One of only three flightless songbirds in the world, and the only perching flighless bird in the world, ever.

Unfortunatly, before this prize find was verified, Tibbles had wiped the entire species out, killing all ten mating pairs left in existance.

It is the only instance of a species being wiped out by a single individual.

A rather pissed off Buler was to state in 1905.........



Mousie appears to have been watching the same episode of QI that I was.....

[The Flying Mouse]

Mousie appears to have been watching the same episode of QI that I was.....

:twisted: That's quite interesting :mrgreen: