useless facts

[Jimbuna]

Octopuses have three hearts.

[Ostfriese]

The first dreadnaught-type battleships with the main guns in triple turrets were the Austro-Hungarian Tegetthoff class battleships.


Both modern Austria and modern Hungary are landlocked, neither country has direct access to any of the world's oceans.

[Jimbuna]

Hippopotamuses can’t swim.

[Platapus]

The opposite of Déjà vu is Jamais vu

[Jimbuna]

In the 16th century, it was fashionable to have black teeth.

[Platapus]

In the time since Pluto was discovered approximately 94 years ago, it has only traveled 38% of one orbit around the sun.

[Jimbuna]

Honey never spoils.

[Platapus]

The average thickness of ice in Antarctica is about 1 mile (1.6 km).

[Jimbuna]

One in 18 people have a third nipple.

[Platapus]

France was the first country to introduce the vehicle license plate on August 14, 1893

[Jimbuna]

A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.”

[Jimbuna]

There are more possible variations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

[Platapus]

New York City got its nickname “Big Apple” from a local newspaper in the 1920s.



The phrase “Big Apple” was used to describe a big money prize at important horse races held around the city.

[Jimbuna]

More than 86% of U.S. households have at least one car for every driver in the home.

And 28% report having more cars than drivers!

[Jimbuna]

The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields.

The stunning lace veil was worn in Larnaca, Cyprus, on August 14, 2018, and measured 6,962.6 meters (4.3 miles!).

[Platapus]

Marvel originally was named “Timely Comics”.

[Jimbuna]

A group of pugs is called a grumble.

[Platapus]

In the USA, a slave from 1850 by today’s standards, would cost 1,000 dollars.

[Jimbuna]

One of the world’s oldest-known recipes is for beer.

Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old brewery in China with ancient “beer-making tool kits” in underground rooms dating back to 3400 and 2900 B.C.

[Jimbuna]

You can actually die laughing.

Sadly, intense laughter can trigger a heart attack or suffocation.

[Platapus]

The largest amount of money stolen from a bank by robbers occurred in August 2005 in Brazil. A gang of up to 10 people dug a 256-foot long tunnel in Fortaleza to steal nearly the equivalent of $70 million.

[Jimbuna]

The inventor of the Frisbee became one after he died.

After Walter Morrison died and was cremated in 2010, his family turned him into the very toy he invented in 1955. It was known as the Pluto Platter before Wham-O renamed it the Frisbee.

[Platapus]

The Empire State Building generates more revenue from the observation deck than from its renting income.


The cheapest ticket is about $45.00 and the most expensive ticket is $500 :o:o:o

[Jimbuna]

The most shoplifted food item in the world is cheese.

[Platapus]

At the beginning of the 20th century, horses created so much dirt with their excrement that cars were regarded as the “green” alternative.

[Jimbuna]

Bees can get drunk on fermented tree sap.

[Platapus]

The first traffic light was installed in London outside the Houses of Parliament in 1868. Unfortunately, it exploded very soon, killing a policeman.

[Jimbuna]

The world’s oldest-known pants are around 3,000 years old.

They were recovered from a tomb in China.

[Platapus]

Most of the border between the United States and Canada consists of a cleared strip of forest with a width of approximately 20 feet.

[Jimbuna]

The longest time between two twins being born is 90 days.

[Platapus]

The Indian state railway company employs more than one million people. This makes the company the world’s largest employer in the world.

[Jimbuna]

Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5%.

[Jimbuna]

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone in the ear.

[Platapus]

Karaoke is Japanese and means “empty orchestra”.

[Ostfriese]

Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5%.


That explains a lot :D

[Jimbuna]

You travel 2.5 million km (about 1.5 million miles) a day around the sun.

[Platapus]

Australia produces around 1.3 billion liters of wine each year.

[Jimbuna]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay.

It is legal so long as both parties have been registered as blood donors.

[Platapus]

The moonwalk was not actually invented by Michael Jackson. Cab Calloway included similar movements in his performances as early as 1932. At that time, however, people called it “The Buzz”.

[Aktungbby]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay.

It is legal so long as both parties have been registered as blood donors....the winner is usually A+??!:yeah:

[Jimbuna]

Ketchup leaves the bottle at a measured speed.

It leaves the bottle at a rate of 25 miles per year.

[Platapus]

The word “gym” comes from Greek and translates to “place of the naked.”




Despite pointing this out, I had my membership revoked.

[Jimbuna]

There is a town called Calama has never experienced rain.

It is found in the Atacama desert of Chile.

[Aktungbby]

The word “gym” comes from Greek and translates to “place of the naked.”




Despite pointing this out, I had my membership revoked.ie: greek-speke for "where it all hangs out"!:O:

[Platapus]

Only the polar bear is a true carnivore.



All other bears are omnivores, or animals that eat both plants and meat.

[Jimbuna]

Lightning strikes the earth 100 times each second.

[Jimbuna]

The five colours on the Olympic flag were carefully selected.

This is because at least one colour on this flag can be found on any flag in any country.

[Platapus]

Unlike many mammals, bears can see in color.

[Jimbuna]

Antares is 60,000 times larger than the sun.

[Jeff-Groves]

Vulcan, West Virginia, lacked a road connection to the rest of West Virginia and relied on a swinging bridge across the Tug Fork to Kentucky Route 194. The bridge was too narrow for vehicular traffic and had deteriorated by the early 1970s with missing boards.

In 1974–75, the bridge had completely collapsed due to wood rot, and the mayor of Vulcan had unsuccessfully lobbied both the state and federal government to replace it. Because of a lack of action, in 1977, the self-appointed mayor of Vulcan, John Robinette, requested foreign aid from the Soviet Union and East Germany to replace the town's bridge. Soviet journalist Iona Andronov visited Vulcan on December 17, 1977, to meet with Robinette and survey the problem. Within an hour of his visit, reporters were told that the state would replace the bridge. The West Virginia Legislature provided $1.3 million in funding to replace the bridge which opened in 1980.

The Soviet Union had released a statement that they would pay for a new bridge.

[Jimbuna]

There are constantly around 1,800 thunderstorms that occur somewhere on the planet.

[Platapus]

A polar bear’s stomach can hold 150 lbs. (68 kg) of meat.


I did not know that I was distantly related to polar bears

[Ostfriese]

The year 2100 will not have a 29th of February.

[Jimbuna]

A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals.

[Platapus]

A polar bear can swim up to 100 miles without resting

[Jimbuna]

Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.

[Platapus]

East Las Vegas, NM is located Northwest of Las Vegas, NM

[Jimbuna]

Coca-cola was originally green.

[Jimbuna]

36% of the American population has stated that God has spoken to them.

This totals to about 118,008,000 individuals. More often these people suffer from hallucinations.

[Jimbuna]

You can buy a toupee for your dog in Tokyo.

[Platapus]

A male bear is called a boar or a he-bear.



A female bear is called a sow or a she-bear.



A group of bears is called a sleuth or sloth

[Jimbuna]

Only one sport has ever been played on the moon.

A game of golf on the moon was recorded in 1971. Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the surface of the moon.

[Platapus]

Polar Bear skin is black

[Jimbuna]

Most of the viruses embedded in our DNA are gone already.

Most of these viruses have already gone extinct due to human evolution and changes in environments. Modern medicine also played a role in the extinction of these viruses. If scientists were to revive any of these viruses, it could cause a major outbreak that humans won’t quickly heal from.

[fireftr18]

Polar Bear skin is black

and the hair is translucent.

[Aktungbby]

Polar Bear skin is black

and the hair is translucent.

https://gray-wsfa-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/XNHM2LW4IRAITCYJK32LY5VKCU.jpg?auth=7f6677b8a502d1 671e971c51bd9c5847425d9d65c15dd07ec2f5d35754e2ee7a&width=1600&height=900&smart=true...and i'll take mine over ice, thanks:shucks:

[Jimbuna]

Americans spend an average of $1,092 on coffee per year.

[Platapus]

In England, there is a legend that in the Tower of London, "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it".


There is a person called the Tower Ravenmaster, who with his staff, takes care of the resident ravens making sure they are happy and safe.



Currently, there are seven resident ravens in the Tower, but during the bombing of WWII, all but three of the ravens died from either bombing or stress; the survivors were Gripp, his mate Mabel and another raven named Pauline. Mabel and Gripp soon "disappeared", however.



Pauline, the Raven that kept the kingdom. :salute:

[Jimbuna]

2 out of 1000 children are born deaf in the United States.

[Jimbuna]

Driving to space would only take an hour.

Theoretically, this is possible if you were to drive in a straight line upwards into the atmosphere at a speed of 60 mph.

[Platapus]

Spectacled bears are the only wild bears that live in South America.


I wonder who their optometrist is?

[Jimbuna]

Every three seconds, there is a birth taking place somewhere in the world.

[Platapus]

During hibernation, a bear does not defecate. Its body can somehow recycle body waste into protein — a process scientists still do not fully understand.

[Jimbuna]

The Arizona capitol building roof holds around 5 million pennies.

[Platapus]

Since "pie" day is coming up....


The symbol for pi (π) has been used regularly in its mathematical sense only for the past 250 years.

[Jimbuna]

The Apollo 11 crew pre-made autographs for insurance.

The Apollo 11 crew was prepared for the chances that they may not be able to return from their voyage. In an attempt to financially prepare their families, they signed many trinkets that their families could sell if the mission failed.

[Platapus]

The first 144 digits of pi add up to 666 (which many scholars say is “the mark of the Beast”). And 144 = (6+6) x (6+6).


This is what is called a coincidence. :03:

[Jimbuna]

All swans in England belong to the Queen.

[Sean C]

A mnemonic from NavList (https://navlist.net/Negative-numbers-Eremenko-mar-2024-g55635):



Now I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics...

3.1415926535897...






(... It's the number of letters in each word.)

[Jimbuna]

Most wines are not vegetarian or vegan-friendly.

[Platapus]

William Shanks (1812-1882) worked for years by hand to find the first 707 digits of pi. Unfortunately, he made a mistake after the 527th place and, consequently, the following digits were all wrong.


https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.explicit.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid% 3DOIP.gYLXRw3xcHOAQFBOMj8wxAHaFJ%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=4798599c6d40d2a1fdeaf8f9d8778f0054b38b6eceb689 12fd8988957807a71b&ipo=images

[Jimbuna]

A Poison Garden in England is filled with venomous plants.

The Alnwick Garden is a garden complex by Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England. These historic gardens were revived at some point, and a Poison Garden was added in 2005.

[Platapus]

A twofer



In 2002, a Japanese scientist found 1.24 trillion digits of pi using a powerful computer called the Hitachi SR 8000, breaking all previous records.


There is no practical application for this




Thirty-nine decimal places of pi suffice for computing the circumference of a circle girding the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom.

[Jimbuna]

Peas are the oldest vegetables.

[Platapus]

Racehorse jockey, Frank Hayes holds an unfortunate but unique record.


He is the only known jockey who won a race while dead on 4 June 1923.


Hayes died in the latter part of the race and his body remained in the saddle when his horse Sweet Kiss crossed the finish line, winning by a head, making him the first, and so far only, jockey known to have won a race after death.


It was his first and last race.

[Jimbuna]

The winning lottery combination was once foretold in a fortune cookie.

This resulted in over a hundred winners for the 2005 lottery. All of these winners took home around $100,000-$500,000 depending on their original bet.

[Platapus]

and finally, in recognition of "pi day"


Piphilology is the practice of memorizing large numbers of digits of pi


The word comes from the Latin root meaning Ain't got no life. :D

[Jimbuna]

A meteor with the force of 10 atomic bombs crashed on Earth and no one noticed.

On December 18, 2018, a meteor hit our atmosphere but was failed to be detected by NASA at the time. The reason for this is because it took place in the Bering Sea which was a closed area.

[Platapus]

Typewriters favor left handed typists


On average a typist will use his or her left hand for 56% of the letters



This is because most of the most common letters in the English language are on the left side of the keyboard. The right side of the keyboard only contains i and n as the most common letters.

[Jimbuna]

Strawberries are the only known fruit to grow their seeds externally.

[Platapus]

The basketball was invented three years (1894) after the development of the game of Basketball in 1891.

[Sean C]

Each apparent "seed" on the outside of a strawberry is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it.

[Platapus]

tongue twisters in sign language are called finger fumblers.

[Jimbuna]

Scientists can’t explain what causes four-leafed clovers.

[Platapus]

April 11, 1954, was recorded as the most boring day in the world.

Statistics show that no significant occurrences took place in the world. This was calculated by a computer search program. This program could calculate the number of important events that occur all over the world simultaneously.

[Jimbuna]

Rainbows at night exist.

These rainbows are called moonbows and they only occur when there is a source of water near a full moon. If the moon is in any other phase, the light will not be enough to cause a moonbow.

[Jimbuna]

The Arabic word for fingers translates to ‘banana’.

[Platapus]

A snail has about 2,500 teeth.

These teeth can be found on their tongue that’s covered in ridges. Snails eat by rubbing their tongue on its food while the ridges cut it into tiny pieces.

[Jimbuna]

The Terminator was sold for a dollar.

The first of the five movies of the Terminator franchise earned a total of $78.3 million worldwide at the box office. However, the rights for the movie was sold for a mere dollar.

[Platapus]

Pigeons, like most birds, can't fart

[Jimbuna]

The scientific name used for flowering plants is Angiosperm.

[Jimbuna]

A plant that consumes rats can be found in the Philippines.

[Platapus]

The largest tsunami ever recorded occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958, with a wave reaching the incredible height of 1720 feet.

[Jimbuna]

An organism with a dissapearing butt exists.

Scientists named this the comb jelly or the sea walnut. Research has stated that there has been no documentation of a transient anus, not even under a microscope.

[Platapus]

'Strengths' is the longest word with only one vowel.

[Platapus]

"Four" is the only number that is spelled with the same number of letters as itself.

[Jimbuna]

The smell of freshly cut grass is noted to be the grass screaming in distress.

This smell is a chemical that grass uses to call other critters to come and rescue them. The chemical compounds that the plant releases can also be used to poison an enemy and alert surrounding plants.

[Platapus]

Ostrich farms sometimes have difficulty getting their male ostriches to breed, since the male ostriches are more attracted to their human caretakers than to female ostriches.


2024... totally not judging...

[Jimbuna]

Being gassy is normal.

It is considered normal to pass gas 6 to 20 times a day. The average person passes gas around fifteen times a day.

[Platapus]

A wood frog species in Alaska is known to be able to hold its bladder for 8 months at a time.



For me, these days I am lucky if I can make it 8 minutes :o

[Ostfriese]

The German language allows to chain nouns together to form new nouns, and in theory there's no limit, so basically you can chain as many nouns together as you want.

Officially, the longest German word is Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübert ragungsverordnung with 67 letters, a legal term not commonly used in everyday- language.It contains the nouns

Grundstück (a plot of land)
Verkehr (traffic)
Genehmigung (approval/permission)
Zuständigkeit (responsibility/competency)
Übertragung (transfer)
Verordnung (legal decree).

For the first five an "s" is added to show the genitive case.

The word roughly translates as "decree which regulates the transfer of responsibilty for permitting traffic on a plot of land".


Edit: for some reason the forum added an empty space in the word after the 50th letter - don't ask me why.

[Jimbuna]

Baby kangaroos are born the size of an inch.

[fireftr18]

Being gassy is normal.

It is considered normal to pass gas 6 to 20 times a day. The average person passes gas around fifteen times a day.

Finally, I found something I'm way above average on.

[Sean C]

:har:

[Jimbuna]

The little finger contributes 50% of our hand strength.

[Platapus]

Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.






A similar law was passed in the US. A common US phrase can't be used as evidence that the person actually had sex with their mother. :D

[Ostfriese]

A large container ship (like the one in Baltimore), which has a mass of 100,000 metric tons, moving at 5 knots has a kinetic energy of about 312 MJ.

That's about the same amount of kinetic energy a typical SUV (about 1.5 metric tons) has at Mach 1.9 (slightly more than 2300 km/h or 1437 mph).


(The ship that crashed into the bridge in Baltimore looks bigger, fully loaded it will very likely be closer to 150,000 metric tons).

[Jimbuna]

The webs of spiders were once used as bandages.

[Platapus]

If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their offspring is called a “Pizzy Bear.”

[Jimbuna]

There is a quick way to escape the grip of a crocodile.

Experts state that the best way to escape a crocodile is to poke its eyes. The pain can distract the crocodile long enough for it to loosen its grip and for you to escape.

[Platapus]

There is a quick way to escape the grip of a crocodile.

Experts state that the best way to escape a crocodile is to poke its eyes. The pain can distract the crocodile long enough for it to loosen its grip and for you to escape.


The best way to escape a crocodile is to reach behind you and start flinging that rather large pile of poop that appeared behind you

[Platapus]

A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto.”

[Jimbuna]

Mosquitoes are unable to penetrate silk.

[Platapus]

The scientific name for Giant Anteater is Myrmecophaga Tridactyla. This means “ant eating with three fingers.”

[Jimbuna]

A tomb found in London is said to be a time machine.

One of the tombs in the Brompton Cemetary has an en entryway that features a keyhole. However, the key to this chamber has been lost for years.

Local legend believes that there is a secret in this chamber due to the gold Egyptian hieroglyphs that is decorated on the door. This has lead others to believe that it may be a time machine or a time chamber of some sort.

[Platapus]

The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are called “phosphenes.”

[Jimbuna]

Christian nurses were not allowed to nurse Jewish babies.

This was declared by King Henry III in 1235. If these wet nurses were to do so, it was believed that it could weaken the faith of the infants as they grow up.

[Platapus]

Iceland does not have a railway system.

[Platapus]

The largest known prime number has 24,862,048 digits.


If you want to know what that number is, just raise 2 to the 82,589,933th power and subtract 1.

[Jimbuna]

The tooth of an elephant weighs around 9 pounds.

[Platapus]

The tongue is the only muscle in one’s body that is attached from one end.

[Jimbuna]

Sumo wrestlers often make babies cry for good luck.

[Platapus]

The Bagheera kiplingi spider was discovered in the 1800s and is the only species of spider that has been classified as vegetarian.

[Jimbuna]

A woman once found her lost wedding ring growing on a carrot in her garden.

In 1995, a Swedish woman lost her wedding ring while preparing a Christmas eve dinner. 12 years later, the ring re-emergers in her garden wrapped around a carrot.

[Platapus]

The Amazon Cicada can urinate at almost 10 feet per second.

[Ostfriese]

From August 1940 onwards all fire trucks in Germany were painted in dark green. Although this rule was ended in 1945 and new rules in both East and West Germany required newly acquired fire trucks to be painted in red, green wartime fire trucks remained a common sight in the 1950s and early 1960s. Some wartime fire trucks made it into the 1970s despite being hopelessly obsolete by then.

[Ostfriese]

Blue lights for emergency vehicles were made mandatory in Germany in 1938 (at that time they didn't blink or rotate). Blue was chosen because blue light scatters more than lights in different colors and thus is less easy to spot from the air (and only from lower altitudes) - it was already planned with wartime blackouts in mind.

[Jimbuna]

Dogs can learn commands better with hand signals.

[Platapus]

This spring/early summer the US will experience an unusual occurrence of cicadas.



The 13 year brood and the 17 year brood will be coming to the surface at the same time.


The last time this happened was in 1803.


Yeah, it's gonna suck

[Jimbuna]

Only 3 mammals experience menopause.

[Platapus]

If you translate “Jesus” from Hebrew to English, the correct translation is “Joshua.”



The name “Jesus” comes from translating the name from Hebrew to Greek to Latin to English.

[Jimbuna]

A mouse trap built 155 years ago caught a mouse in 2016.

[Platapus]

German Chocolate Cake is named after an American baker by the name of Samuel German.

[Jimbuna]

The oldest chocolates in the world are around 106 years old.

These chocolates date back to the coronation of King Edward VII. This is dated back to the year 1902.

[Platapus]

An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.

[Jimbuna]

A tarantula can survive two years without food.

[Platapus]

75% of the world’s diet is produced from just 12 plants and five different animal species.


A significant number of those plants are pollinated by bees and bats.



Something to think about.

[Jimbuna]

You can swim through the veins of a blue whale.

[Platapus]

In 2007, Scotland spent £125,000 devising a new national slogan.





The winning entry was: “Welcome to Scotland.”

[Jimbuna]

Your eyelids have the thinnest amount of skin on your body.

[Jimbuna]

There are 1 million ants for every person on the planet.

[Platapus]

Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for public use.



Meaning that prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted, and you had to pay a license to use it.

[Jimbuna]

We can detect taste faster than we can blink.

[Platapus]

When mice live in the wild, they typically only live for about six months.



They get et a lot.

[Jimbuna]

Kangaroos can't hop without their tails.

[Platapus]

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

[Jimbuna]

The average human processes 100,000 pounds of food in a lifetime.

[Jimbuna]

Moths do not have a stomach.

[Platapus]

Betty White was on TV for more than 70 years. In 2014 she was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest TV Career for an entertainer (Female)

[Jimbuna]

Fleas can jump 200 times their height.

[Platapus]

A cluster of bananas is called a “hand.” Along that theme, a single banana is called a “finger.”

[Jimbuna]

There are pink lakes in Australia.

On the western coast of Australia, a pink lake called Lake Hillier can be found. It gets its colour from the algae present in the area which mixes with the lake’s salt content to create a pink colour.

[Jimbuna]

The Russians arrived 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics.

This was mainly due to the fact that they were following the wrong calendar. After this incident, the catholic nations mandated the use of the Gregorian Calendar.

[Platapus]

Swedish meatballs are from Turkey

[Jimbuna]

The average person eats a total of 8 pounds of grapes annually.

[Platapus]

There is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, Bartender, and Librarian.

[Jimbuna]

The smallest surviving baby weighed 8.5 oz.

This baby is known as Saybie and was born in a hospital in San Diego. Normally, babies are born between 7-8 lbs.

[Platapus]

In 1994, the company that had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.

[Jimbuna]

A snail can grow new eyes.

[Platapus]

Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.

[Jimbuna]

The manager of Elvis Presley was also selling hate merchandise for Elvis.

For nearly two decades, Tom Parker was the manager of The King. It was sometime in the 1950s that Parker signed a merchandising deal to turn Elvis into a brand name which also included ‘I hate Elvis’ badges.

[Jimbuna]

HIV originated from a chimp’s stomach.

The chimp in question had eaten two other monkeys that had two different viruses. These viruses then combined and formed a hybrid virus.

[Platapus]

To properly write adjectives in order, you would list them by amount, value, size, temperature, age, shape, color, origin, and material.

[Jimbuna]

Most known asteroids in our solar system are located between Jupiter and Mars.

[Platapus]

The world’s first motel is in San Luis Obispo, which was built in 1925.



When opened, it cost $1.25 for a two-room bungalow with a kitchen and a private adjoining garage.

[Jimbuna]

You need to exceed temperatures of 1000 degrees Celcius to burn a diamond.

[Platapus]

Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made from something called castoreum, a scented oil which is naturally secreted by beavers’ butts.


yum

[Jimbuna]

Several people residing in Iceland believe in elves.

A survey conducted at the University of Iceland found that 62% of residents believe in elves. This is mainly due to the country’s elf history which dates back to the Viking era.

[Platapus]

Cruise ships have morgues that can store up to 10 bodies at once. The average amount of people that die on cruise ships per year is 200.

[Jimbuna]

Sunglasses were not originally designed to protect your eyes from the sun.

The original idea behind this was so that Chinese judges could hide their facial expressions in court. Today, they mainly serve as protective eyewear and as well as a fashionable accessory.

[Platapus]

North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, as the 39th and 40th states. President Harrison shuffled the statehood papers before signing them so that no one could tell which became a state first; consequently, the two states are officially numbered in alphabetical order.

[Sean C]

Sunglasses were not originally designed to protect your eyes from the sun.

The original idea behind this was so that Chinese judges could hide their facial expressions in court. Today, they mainly serve as protective eyewear and as well as a fashionable accessory.


I'm calling shenanigans on that one. (←That is a local colloquialism for ... "I don't think that's true" ... to put it politely.)


:haha:

[Jimbuna]

Humans have five vital organs.

Without any of these organs, a human being cannot survive. These organs include the heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and the brain.

[Platapus]

Skin would be a pretty important organ, I would imagine


More tornadoes occur in the United Kingdom per square mile than in any other country in the world.

[Aktungbby]

A small dab of toothpaste on the tooth-brush is called a nurdle.

[Eisenwurst]

Thompson submachine guns don't fit in Violin cases, and Trombone cases were preferred for ergonomic reasons.

[Jimbuna]

A 10-year old mattress weighs double its original weight.

This is due to the debris it absorbs over time such as mites, mold, dead skin cells, dandruff, etc. It also includes the sweat of the person using the mattress.

[Jimbuna]

A dentist invented cotton candy.

[Platapus]

Daniel Craig was an anonymous Storm Trooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Originally, he denied his cameo and claimed he wouldn’t bother being an extra in a movie.

[Jimbuna]

The first soup ever recorded comes from a hippo.

[Platapus]

The word “kimono” literally means a “thing to wear.” Ki is “wear,” and mono is “thing.”

[Jimbuna]

DUI offenders in Ohio are required to use yellow license plates.

These special yellow plates were issued in 2004 to let officials know if a vehicle has had multiple DUI violations already. It also serves as a cone of shame for the owners of the vehicles to push them to be better drivers.

[Platapus]

It snows metal on planet Venus!





There are two types that have been found, galena and bismuthinite.

[Jimbuna]

The world's deepest postbox is in Japan.

It can be found in Susami Bay which is located in Wakayama, Japan. The post is 10 meters underwater and most people require a diving suit just to get to it.

[Platapus]

By the time they have been retired for 2 years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.

[Jimbuna]

La Paz, Bolivia is constantly at a temperature of below 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Despite this constant average, it has never reached below 0 degrees. This is also the case for Chile and the Falkland Islands.

[Platapus]

The last movie that Fay Wray watched before she died was King Kong.

[Jimbuna]

Pumpkin flowers are edible.

The seeds, stem, skin, and flesh are all safe for human consumption. These flowers are also used in some native dishes in some countries. More commonly they are deep-fried.

[Platapus]

The majority of blind people in the U.S. and the U.K. cannot read braille.



Statistically, less than 1% of blind in the U.K. and under 10% in the U.S.

[Jimbuna]

An American man tried to fake his death so he wouldn't have to pay his phone bill.

In 2007, Corey Taylor attempted to fake his own death to get out of his smartphone contract without paying for anything. However, despite his efforts, it did not work.

[Jimbuna]

Over 87,000 Americans are on a waiting list for organ transplants.

On average, the waiting time takes 3-5 years. In most parts of the world, individuals may need to wait much longer than 5 years. Kidneys are the most needed organs for transplants in the world.

[Jimbuna]

Children are more often poisoned by house plants rather than household chemicals.

The poisoning could occur from eating or touching the leaves, roots, or berries. Having skin contact with the plant’s sap or juices could also cause poisoning. Some cases also occur when children drink water that comes from the plant tray.

[Jimbuna]

Majority of the Muppets are left-handed.

This is mainly because most of their puppeteers are right-handed. This implies that they operate the head with their dominant hand.

[Jimbuna]

Bacon was once a Middle English term used to refer to all pork.

This was a common practice during the 16th century. The terms come from many German and French dialects.

[Jimbuna]

The females of the Kangaroo species have a total of 3 vaginas.

The two side ones carry the sperm into the uteruses as male marsupials often have two-pronged penises. The middle vagina is where the joey comes out from.

[Jimbuna]

White chocolate isn’t chocolate.

This is made from a blend of sugar and milk products along with some cocoa powder and vanilla extracts. The reason why this cannot be classified as chocolate is that it does not contain any chocolate solids in its making process.

[Aktungbby]

The females of the Kangaroo species have a total of 3 vaginas.

The two side ones carry the sperm into the uteruses as male marsupials often have two-pronged penises. The middle vagina is where the joey comes out from....not when there are triplets!:O:

[Jimbuna]

Giraffes do not possess vocal cords.

[Sean C]

When my father was telling me about Neuro-linguistic Programming, he demonstrated it by asking me what sound a giraffe makes. I thought about it for a couple of seconds and said "Giraffes don't make sounds."


He said "When I asked you that question, you tried to remember the sound that a giraffe makes. When you couldn't, in your mind you pictured a giraffe opening it's mouth, and no sound came out. That's when you realized that giraffes don't make sounds."


I said "That's exactly what I was thinking! How did you know that?" He replied "Just by watching where your eyes moved." Then, he showed me the manual he had received as part of his training in the U.S. Army.


I didn't ask him why he had received such training. Maybe I should. :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Light does not always travel at the speed of light.

Research has found that the slowest recorded light moving was at the speed of 38 mph. The light can travel even slower if it is made to pass through obstacles such as water.

[Platapus]

Light only travels at the "speed of light" in an environment of a complete vacuum isolated from gravitational forces.....an environment we still have not been able to find.

[Shadowblade]

"There are 49 million kangaroos in Australia and 3.5 million people in Uruguay which means if the kangaroos were to invade Uruguay, each person will have to fight 14 kangaroos."

[Jimbuna]

A Sardinian Cheese called Casu mazu contains live maggots.

[Jimbuna]

There are more than 10,000 different varieties of tomatoes.

[Platapus]

In the U.S., 12 June is National German Chocolate Cake Day!


Fun fact: This cake has nothing to do with Germany


The recipe was first published in 1857 by Mrs. George Clay in Dallas Texas.



It got its name from German Chocolate... which also has nothing to do with Germany, but was developed by Samuel German in 1853 in Boston, Massachusetts.

[Jimbuna]

A space mission confirmed that frogs can vomit.

The frog puked out its entire stomach which caused its organs to dangle out of its mouth. The frog then used its forearms to dig out the stomach’s contents and swallow the organs again.

[Platapus]

In 1959, French entertainer Michel Lotito (then 9 years old) began his habit of eating indigestible foods, in part due to his pica eating disorder.


He first performed his skill in 1966, and later became known as "Monsieur Mangetout" (lit. 'Mr. Eat-all'). Throughout the course of his life, Lotito consumed various objects including 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, and 7 TV sets.



Lotito was awarded a 'strangest diet' plaque from the Guinness Book of Records....


which he consumed as well.


:o:o:o
https://historicflix.com/michel-lotito-the-man-who-ate-everything/

[Jimbuna]

The ice cream cone was invented during the 1904 St. Louis world fair.

The invention of this edible container was made when a Syrian named Ernest E. Hamwi used batter at his waffle booth to make cones. This was done to help out his neighbor who kept running out of serving bowls.

[Platapus]

Like Auto Correct? Well thank the Chinese Language


In the 1950's, MIT engineer Samuel Caldwell was working on a way to type Chinese ideographs using a QWERTY keyboard where each key was coded to a specific Chinese ideograph marking subset.



Since Chinese ideographs consist of patterns of standard markings, he started programming a computer, ultimately called SINOTYPE.


What he found out what that he did not have to enter all of the individual markings before the computer could "predict" the final set.



In working with Chinese linguists, his team discovered that he only needed to program 22 markings in order for his computer to accurately auto complete in the correct ideograph.

[Catfish]

Scotland - Germany 3:0 for Germany after half time.
Did not expect that -

[Catfish]

Make that 5 : 1 🙃
All goals by the german team 😆

[Jimbuna]

Research states that the loneliest creature on the planet is a whale.

[Jimbuna]

The spikes at the end of a stegasaurus' tail is called a thagomizer.

This term originated and was made popular by a cartoonist named Gary Larson. The term was introduced in 1982 and has been the term for the dinosaurs’ tail ever since.

[Jimbuna]

A British submarine once kept a fully grown reindeer aboard the vessel in WWII.

This reindeer was kept on the HMS Trident for six weeks straight. They took care of it because it was said to be a gift from their Russian allies.

[Shadowblade]

really?

https://scontent-prg1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/448586070_326791443807009_7127215780296392118_n.jp g?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=FwI-Wfzhf-UQ7kNvgEGcYs8&_nc_ht=scontent-prg1-1.xx&cb_e2o_trans=q&oh=00_AYAP0G5lVCNCHuYKufl9iUt7k82EmAppjhmRQXWfF-_n6Q&oe=66779736

[Jimbuna]

David Bowie once stated he was being stalked by a man in a pink rabbit suit.

Bowie noticed a particular fan during his concerts that would always attend the events in a large pink rabbit suit. During one instance, he was alarmed to find the same rabbit onboard the plane he was on.

[Jimbuna]

As of the beginning of 2004, the U.S. population increases by 1 every 12 seconds.

A birth takes place in the U.S. every 8 seconds and an immigrant is added every 25 seconds. Death also occurs every 13 seconds.

[Jimbuna]

A surgical procedure that removes fear from your brain exists.

This process is called selective amygdalohippocampectomy and is used to treat patients with epilepsy. While this may sound like a process you would want to try, it comes with consequences.

[Jimbuna]

Shaved heads were a symbol of extreme beauty in 1500 B.C Egypt.

[Jimbuna]

There is a species of frog that devours its prey through its eyes.

[Jimbuna]

23% of all photocopier problems are caused by people sitting on them.

[Jimbuna]

A human thumb has its own pulse.

The reason for this is because there is a large artery located in the thumb. This artery has a pulse different from the heart, which is why nurses use their middle and index fingers to take a patient’s pulse.

[mapuc]

(Not the right place to put it I know, but since he used to post daily in this thread I decided to use this and our MIA members is outside our 3 pages)

Where is Platapus seems like it's days ago since his last post here.

Markus

[Platapus]

A human thumb has its own pulse.

The reason for this is because there is a large artery located in the thumb. This artery has a pulse different from the heart, which is why nurses use their middle and index fingers to take a patient’s pulse.




:nope:


The pulse of your thumb is the same rate as your pulse at other locations.



The rule is that you should not use your own thumb to take the pulse of someone else as the stronger pulse in your own thumb can make it more difficult to count and evaluate the other person's pulse.

[Platapus]

(Not the right place to put it I know, but since he used to post daily in this thread I decided to use this and our MIA members is outside our 3 pages)

Where is Platapus seems like it's days ago since his last post here.

Markus


Still here. :)


Had some stuff come up and kinda lost interest in this thread



But thanks for asking about me. That was nice

[Jimbuna]

A child can ask over a hundred questions a day.

Certain studies have found that the average 4-year-old will ask more than 400 questions a day. Meanwhile, a child will ask an average of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2-5.

[Jimbuna]

Buzz Aldrin is the first man to ever urinate on the moon.

[Jimbuna]

The man with the longest beard in the world died from his beard.

In 5767, the man that held this title was trying to run from a fire at the time. Due to his beard’s length, he tripped over it which caused him to die in the fire.

[Jimbuna]

Orange is not the only word in the English language that cannot be rhymed.

Other words include silver, purple, and month.

[Jimbuna]

There was a month-long plague in 1518 called Dance fever.

This phenomenon described people dancing themselves to death for no reason. Hundreds of people were affected by this phenomenon that continues to be unexplained until today.

[Platapus]

Owls have asymmetrical ears. This greatly aids them in locating sound in three dimensions.

[Jimbuna]

The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only two letters.

This sentence is “Go”. This word is an active verb and can also be used to interpret a mood.

[Aktungbby]

The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only two letters.

This sentence is “Go”. This word is an active verb and can also be used to interpret a mood....it's also an absorbing game comparable to chess...ie: also a noun. :know:

[Aktungbby]

There was a month-long plague in 1518 called Dance fever.

This phenomenon described people dancing themselves to death for no reason. Hundreds of people were affected by this phenomenon that continues to be unexplained until today....inspiring Choreomania by Florence and the Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf1VYwALPKE

[Jimbuna]

The village of Giethoorn has no roads.

This village in the Netherlands has several underground paths and canals that its residents use. The entire village is connected through these canals, giving them no reason to walk around on the surface.

[Jimbuna]

A family in Kentucky had blue skin for generations.

The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek is thought to have gained their blue skin from a combination of a rare genetic condition and inbreeding. Methemoglobinemia is what scientists believe causes this mutation.

[Jimbuna]

The word ‘pants’ was once considered to be a dirty word.

This was considered a vulgar statement during the 1880s in England. Any topic regarding the word was also frowned upon.

[Jimbuna]

1000 is the first number from 0 that uses the letter a when spelled.

[Jimbuna]

Earthquakes can permanently shorten the length on the Earth's day.

If a strong enough earthquake occurs, it can move the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011 earthquake in Japan knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days according to researchers.

[Jimbuna]

A bar in London sells vaporized vodka.

This is consumed by inhaling it rather than drinking it.