Useless but interesting facts

[Evol]

The most sentence you ever said in your life is I dont know.

[Paro]

i can drink 4 cups of water. then drink 3 more. crazy eh?

[Twilight Edge]

Every human has a blind spot in each of their eyes. Position your face between the X and the I below focusing on the dot between them. Close your right eye and look across your face at the letter I with your left eye. Now move your face back and forth at the screen, at a certain distance the X should vanish somewhere between 30cm away.


_______________X_________________.______ ____________I

This happens to all animals except squid, so if it doesn't work for you then the only logical conclusion is that you are a squid.

I am a squid.

Apparently I am as well.

I am also a squid. This calls for a squid party.

May I join?

[Rase]

• The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.

If not for North America and South America, that would work. Unless if you're one of the folks who counts both of them as just one continent, America, in which case it would also work.

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

Fixed.

[Breine]

- A cat has a 32 muscles in each of its ears.

... that was the only one I could think of

[Emerald Aeris]

Wombats have backwards pouches so dirt won't get into it when they burrow.

[Rocket Edge]

More people die every year from donkey related incident's than plane crashes.

[Jess]

Oh! Here's one that was in the pub quiz that I participated in on Sunday evening:

Of all 50 American states there is only one that has one syllable: Maine.

[Shaun]

Some people, like me, blink less than others, so the first fact isn't necessarily true for all.

"Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second."

[Quindiana Jones]

I own the Ultimate Book of Useless information so I literally have a bookload of these.

[Ethanol Dreams]

Every year, 4 people in the UK die putting on their trousers.

72% of Americans sign their pets names on greetings cards.

Britney Spears used Hypnotism to help her stop biting her nails.

Jennifer Aniston used Hypnotism to help her stop smoking.

Avril Lavigne has a computer virus named after her.

The word "and" appears in the Bible 46,277 times.


I'll put in some more as I read them in "This Book", "That Book" and "The Other Book."

[themagicroundabout]

The tin opener was invented 75 years before the tin.

[Captain Maxx Power]

We need a data bank on useless facts lets begin then.

We already do, it's called Wikipedia.

[BarelySeeAtAll]

Every human has a blind spot in each of their eyes. Position your face between the X and the I below focusing on the dot between them. Close your right eye and look across your face at the letter I with your left eye. Now move your face back and forth at the screen, at a certain distance the X should vanish somewhere between 30cm away.


_______________X_________________.______ ____________I

This happens to all animals except squid, so if it doesn't work for you then the only logical conclusion is that you are a squid.

I am a squid.

Apparently I am as well.

I am also a squid. This calls for a squid party.

May I join?

it works woth me in my science lesson, but can i be part of the squid gang anyway?

[oddler]

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