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Share with us your favorite useless facts (I hope this hasn't been done before)
Here's some of my favorites.
:choc2: 4000 people are injured every year by teapots.
:choc2: More people are killed annually by donkeys than by airplanes.
:choc2: Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
:choc2: On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
All of those are awesome. I hope I was one of the 12 newborns.
Is anyone else concerned that Lime Jell-O has brainwaves?
I thought about it, but decided it might ruin my appetite for Lime Jello.
Mine was already pre-ruined DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT'S LIME JELL-O
LIME IS GOOD, DO NOT DISMISS THE POWER OF LIME!!
:choc2: A pig cant look up
:choc2: if it rains a turky will look up and drown
:choc2: A shrimp has two hearts
:choc2: I am pretty damn awesome
:choc2: a crocodile cant stick its toung out
/dismisses in favour of a red flavour :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Cim
- Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
- It's impossible to lick your elbow.
- More people are killed by flying champagne corks than by poisonous spiders.
:choc2: Peter Molyneux has never known the touch of a lover's hand
- The only member of ZZ Top without a beard has the second name Beard.
- The phrase "rule of thumb" comes from a law in England stating you couldn't strike your wife with anything larger than your thumb
- In a similar vein, giving someone the "cold shoulder" refers to when knights had the right to shelter and food from any house or manor they visited. If the host wanted the knight to leave, they would leave the meat portion of whatever food they served cold. Hence you literally gave someone the cold shoulder
- Elephants can't jump, all other mammals can
some fat people can't:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Captain Maxx Power
I sincerely hope nobody thinks this thread is about actual true facts. xP
What goes up, must come down! :D
mushrooms have no walls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roto13
Every time Kaiba smiles a puppy, dies.
Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer. It's too bad he never cries
Orange jello > all :heart:
Triskadekaphobia is the fear of the number thirteen. Do want.
I made a whole page of these once :jess:
Random Facts
My favorites:
- The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear
- When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
- Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body
- Pigs orgasm for 30 minutes
- Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream
You're late, Whiffles. Useless Facts and Trivia Day is on 9 March. :bigsmile:
"Deeded" is the only word in the English language that consists of only two letters repeated three times.
In Australia, the male antechinus mouse has up to sixteen partners a time in sex sessions in trees lasting up to twelve hours. Often they become so weak, they fall out of the trees and are killed.
Humans are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches two to six years of age. SIX. :(
The human brain devotes a larger portion to controlling the thumb that in does the chest and abdomen.
It takes about eight floors for a falling cat to realise what's happening, relax and correct itself. Studies (though I wonder what studies, and why they were allowed) show that a cat has 30% less chance of surviving a seven floor fall than it does a twenty floor fall.
Bears only hibernate in caves which have an opening on a northern slope.
Female aphids are born pregnant.
Rats can chew through pretty much any building material. This includes concrete.
If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by twice its height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit.
For Roto: to thank Harrison Ford for narrating a documentary, the London Museum of Natural History named a spider after him: the Calponia Harrisonfordi.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
If played correctly, the highest scoring word in Scrabble is "quartzy".
Four popes have died during sexual acts.
Chase Facts: (just to save confusion I am chase, I didn't want to take the time to make it all Dolentrean)
:choc2: Chase is a video game guru in over 19 Countrys
:choc2: Chase can do 10,000 jumping jacks
:choc2: Chase is tough but fair
:choc2: Chase's hair is known to frighten young children
:choc2: Chase can kill a Big Daddy on hard mode without dying
:choc2: Chase can lift a car tire over his head
:choc2: Chase is a powerful ally
:choc2: Chase is an unstopable opponent
:choc2: Chase was in the first draft of unleashed but was cut for makeing Jet Lee look bad
:choc2: Chase is related to Chef Boyardee
:choc2: Chase has never once lost his car keys
:choc2: Chase onced punched someone so hard in Halo that they fell of the internet
:choc2: Chase is what the C in MC Hammer stands for
:choc2: Chase once went a whole day without blinking
:choc2: Chase is currently in a law suit against I Am Legend due to the fact it is based on his exploits
:choc2: Chase may or may not have an evil plan to save the world
Chase is Devil Man?
No duh on that one. :pQuote:
The human brain devotes a larger portion to controlling the thumb that in does the chest and abdomen.
I definitely had kneecaps when I was six. Must've gotten them at age 2.
Or somewhere between 2 and 6. Oooh.....
what, it's not a piecewise function?!
I am currently logged onto Eoff
:choc2: Dogs also can't look up.
Charlie Chaplain won 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplain look-alike contest.
A ship was sunk by a plane which dropped a cow.
only about 55% of Americans actually know the Sun is a star
THATS FOR REAL, not even kidding xD
One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold
The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train running under a car driving under an airplane
Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors
The common domestic pig is smarter than a 3 yr. old human
In order to vomit, a frog must first throw up it's stomach, use it's hands to empty the contents, then swallow the stomach back down
Bonobos (a relative of the Chimpanzee) say "Hello" to each other (SPOILER)by having sex
On an Octopus, one arm (usually the third one on the right) doubles (SPOILER)as a *ding dong*
Soon after mating, the male Octopus becomes extremely lethargic, stops eating, and dies
A sneeze can travel at up to 85% the speed of light, or roughly 600mph
Leonardo DiCaprio got his first onscreen kiss from a guy