useless facts

[Platapus]

There is only one walled city in North America.


Leave it to those suspicious Canadians

[Aktungbby]

Ahem! St. Augustine FL still has city walls!....not much but some.:timeout:

[Sean C]

It's 2:22 AM here.

[Aktungbby]

/\knowing where 'here' is is usually a useless fact!:D

[ET2SN]

/\knowing where 'here' is is usually a useless fact!:D

He has the stars, he can figure it out. :O:

:D

[ET2SN]

There is only one walled city in North America.

I came for the walls, I stayed for the Poutine. :Kaleun_Wink:

[Jimbuna]

Ravens know when someone is spying on them.

[LouisVander]

Here's another fact. I spent 8 hours to get 3 points to put in my chief engineer/mechanic and now I went from 17.6 knots to 17.9 while he went down two grumpy points - I don't know if this is worth it. Either make it worthwhile or leave it I say.

Pfft -

[u crank]

Dr. Anthony Fauci was paid $417,608 as an employee of the federal government in 2019.

[Jimbuna]

Frank Sinatra was offered the starring role in Die Hard when he was in his 70s.

[Jimbuna]

You produce about six pounds of stool per week.

[vienna]

Does that include consumers of pot noodles?...





<O>

[Platapus]

Is gambling evil?



The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.

[Jimbuna]

Around 16 million people alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

[vienna]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/255px-Flag_of_California.svg.png



The State Flag of California depicts a Grizzly Bear, a species that has been extinct in California since 1924...





<O>

[Platapus]

Only one McDonald's in the world has turquoise arches. Government officials in Sedona, Arizona, thought the yellow would look bad with the natural red rock of the city.

[Jimbuna]

The cheesiest pizza ever was topped with 154 varieties of cheese.

[Catfish]

Dr. Anthony Fauci was paid $417,608 as an employee of the federal government in 2019.
Did he deserve it? Or not? That's capitalism for you.
Can you imagine what he could have earned in a private company in a year?

[u crank]

Did he deserve it? Or not? That's capitalism for you.
Can you imagine what he could have earned in a private company in a year?

Don't know, don't care.

[Jimbuna]

Pope John Paul II was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

[Platapus]

President Woodrow Wilson's first name was Thomas

[Sean C]

He was also the worst President in history ... IMHO, of course.

[Platapus]

The Christmas song "Silver Bells" was originally called "Tinkle Bells" until co-composer Jay Livingston’s wife told him "tinkle" had another meaning.

[Jimbuna]

Basenji dogs are the only breed that doesn't bark.

[Aktungbby]

I have a neighbor who has one but "all his dogs ain't barkin'" to begin with!:arrgh!:

[AVGWarhawk]

A duel between three people is actually called a truel.

[AVGWarhawk]

Bullfrogs do not sleep.

[Aktungbby]

Eventually they sleep forever...they croak!

[AVGWarhawk]

Eventually they sleep forever...they croak!

Ba-dishhhh....here to 5. Try the veal. :har:

[Platapus]

How did Curious George get to America? He was captured in Africa by The Man With the Yellow Hat — with his yellow hat.

[Platapus]

in 2020, the word gullible was removed from the dictionary.

[Buddahaid]

in 2020, the word gullible was removed from the dictionary.

I see what you're doing.....

[ET2SN]

Ungullible is the proper word. :up:

Someone who is prone to being fooled would be non-ungullible.

:D

[Jimbuna]

The most common password is "123456."

[Platapus]

An urban legend claimed Zima was not detectable by a breathalyzer, boosting its popularity among the young and gullible.

[Jimbuna]

The largest bill to go into circulation in the U.S. was a $10,000 note.

[Aktungbby]

There is literally one for auction in today's WSJ in RS RAU auction ad! https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0083/2471/0466/products/31-2660_1_480x400.png?v=1609862421 These were discontinued and destroyed and are exceptionally rare. My wife seriously forbids me to bid on it but i wiil be pleased to act as your agent if yours will:D...BOTTOM LINE: if it's on the block, it's not a useless fact! I might actually defy my better half and bid $10,001:O:...the $10,000 is the highest paper money which can be used by people. There are less than 350 $10,000 dollar bills out there, which makes them very rare! They were printed in late 1920s and early 1930s. The collector value is 3x the amount printed on ten thousand dollar bill.

[Platapus]

The original premise of the TV show Hogan's Heroes, was to take place in a US prison and was supposed to be called Hogan's Hoard.



The producers did not think that portraying prisoners in a protagonist role outwitting the guards would be proper so they looked for a better situation. Where could US citizens be prisoners and still be the good guys?


Hence Hogan's Heroes.

[Jimbuna]

Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.

[Texas Red]

Thomas Edison, who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.

[Jimbuna]

Marie Curie's 100-year-old belongings are still radioactive.

[Platapus]

The original premise of the Mary Tyler Moore Show was that she was a newly divorced woman starting over.


Knowing this makes the lyrics of the song make sense


However, the producers were afraid that the viewers would carry over her previous role in the Dick Van Dyke show and would think that she divorced Rob Petrie.



So they changed her character to a single woman.

[Jeff-Groves]

Man can create Gold.
Why is this a useless fact?
The cost to produce Man Made Gold is so high that one would spend billions
and not make a buck!

[Jimbuna]

Most pandas in the world are on loan from China.

[Aktungbby]

mos' everythin' in the world is on loan from China these days...incl. Whirled Peas https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/0e/50/b10e501edaf2b6189387be365d6ab56b.jpg?epik=dj0yJnU9 bEhQMmJjaEdQd3FBSk01N1pJOXl1SkRRWXo3NXVtaTYmcD0wJm 49V0F0QjA2ZnVUVGh1czNFVTVtbFp2ZyZ0PUFBQUFBR0FYREg0 :k_confused:

[Platapus]

Santa's eight reindeer were all female

[Aktungbby]

That's 'cause the 'boy's were in a rut and couldn't ''pull their weight'!:doh:

[Platapus]

Brenda Lee was only 13 when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."

[Von Due]

(Stolen from An Engineer's Concept of Santa Clause)

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the
world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu,
Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the
workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million
(according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census)
rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes,
presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31
hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones
and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems
logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say
that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around
1/1000 th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the
chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under
the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the
chimney, jump into the ! ! sleigh and get onto the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed
around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will
accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about
0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not
counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving
at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes
of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe,
moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can
run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming
that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two
pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousands tons, not counting
Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than
300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times
the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of
them---Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload,
not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly
seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the
monarch).

600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air
resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a
spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of
reindeer would adsorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second
each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously,
exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms
in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within
4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached
the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since
Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in
.001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000
g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned
to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly
crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of
pink goo.

Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

[vienna]

....


Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.





...Von Due...


...the Nietzsche of Xmas...




<O>

[Jimbuna]

More than two-thirds of millennials sleep nude.

[Aktungbby]

that is altogether a fascinating fact,:O:

[Platapus]

When the group ABBA wore those outlandish outfits, it was because of the tax laws in their country. Performance costumes could only be deducted as business expenses if they could not be worn normally in public.

[Jimbuna]

The average person has four to six dreams a night.

[Texas Red]

Coca-cola has never been patented because to do that they would have to reveal the formula.

[Platapus]

Dr. Ruth was trained as a sniper by the Israeli military.

[Jimbuna]

Maryland tried to ban Randy Newman's song "Short People."

[Platapus]

In WWII in some British war factories, the playing of the new song "deep in the heart of Texas" was not allowed because of fear that the workers would stop working and start clapping and might make a mistake.

[vienna]

Just a harmless little song...

Louie, Louie: The frat-house/any other drunken reverie classic song song has a few unusual distinctions; in addition to being covered by hundreds of bands/singers over the decades since Richard Berry recorder his original in 1955, the song has been routinely banned, scrutinized, analyzed, and has been the source of some of the most ridiculous overreactions ever over a song/recording; the main target of the frenzy has been the 1963 recording of the song by The Kingsmen, done in one take for in a recording session that cost all of USD $50.00; allegedly, the band had been imbibing a bit before and during the session and that, coupled with the bargain-basement recording session, contributed to the muddled, almost indecipherable vocal on the song; an urban legend grew up about the lyrics and parents, government officials/agencies, educators, etc., were convinced, if they couldn't understand the song, it had to be really, really dirty, so a long and lingering effort was launched to suss out the filth and ban the song forever...

How bad did it get? Would you believe there were actual US Congressional hearings and that the FBI spent about two (2) years investigating the lyrics in an effort to defend common decency:


'Louie Louie': Indecipherable, Or Indecent? An FBI Investigation --

https://www.npr.org/2015/05/02/403623915/louie-louie-indecipherable-or-indecent-an-fbi-investigation


The above article not only describes the wildly extreme extents the FBI engaged in try to preserve 'Merican morality, it also includes a link to the actual FBI report on the song, complete with the FBI's analysis and text of the lyrics which are, to say the least, way far off from the actual lyrics of the song; it kind of makes one wonder if the FBI was engaging in a bit of imbibing while they were listening intently to those 'immoral' lyrics...

Oddly, if you listen to the original, unedited recording, the lead singer misses the cue after the middle guitar break and comes in too soon, catches his error, and stops to wait for the right cue; as he stops his mis-start, you can hear him, under his breath, swear, with a decidedly not clean word; oddly, the actual swear word in the recording is almost always missed by those commenting on the record...


An even weirder fact about Louie Louie is that the song was banned by a US university, the University of South Carolina, not because of the song's alleged racy lyrics, but because the song was seriously damaging the university's football stadium; the schools marching band would, like so many other school bands, play the song as part of their performances and the stadium crowd would join in singing the song, stomping their feet and swaying to the rhythm; so many people stomping and swaying at the same tome caused a resonance effect with the vibrations being at a near-perfect harmony with the structure's elements, cause alarming damage to the building; worries that continued renditions of Louie, Louie might bring the structure down caused the school's administration to ban any further performances; as far as I know, Louie, Louie is the only song ever to be banned for being structurally dangerous...




<O>

[vienna]

In WWII in some British war factories, the playing of the new song "deep in the heart of Texas" was not allowed because of fear that the workers would stop working and start clapping and might make a mistake.


Well, that explains a lot about the way Texans are the way they are... :D




<O>

[Platapus]

Asperger syndrome is named for Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, who described it in 1944.

[Von Due]

If none of the stars moved, and if you could somehow pull it off, it would take about 215-225 million years to walk to Proxima Centauri.

[Platapus]

The term "lawn mullet" refers to a neatly manicured front yard with an unmowed mess in the back.

[Aktungbby]

Well, that explains a lot about the way Texans are the way they are... :D




<O>R U implying they've all "got the clap !!??":O:

[Platapus]

There was a long-lost fourth member of the Snap/Crackle/Pop gang. "Pow" represented Rice Krispies' explosive nutritional value.

[ET2SN]

Just a harmless little song...

Louie, Louie: The frat-house/any other drunken reverie classic song song has a few unusual distinctions; in addition to being covered by hundreds of bands/singers over the decades since Richard Berry recorder his original in 1955, the song has been routinely banned, scrutinized, analyzed, and has been the source of some of the most ridiculous overreactions ever over a song/recording; the main target of the frenzy has been the 1963 recording of the song by The Kingsmen, done in one take for in a recording session that cost all of USD $50.00; allegedly, the band had been imbibing a bit before and during the session and that, coupled with the bargain-basement recording session, contributed to the muddled, almost indecipherable vocal on the song; an urban legend grew up about the lyrics and parents, government officials/agencies, educators, etc., were convinced, if they couldn't understand the song, it had to be really, really dirty, so a long and lingering effort was launched to suss out the filth and ban the song forever...

How bad did it get? Would you believe there were actual US Congressional hearings and that the FBI spent about two (2) years investigating the lyrics in an effort to defend common decency:


'Louie Louie': Indecipherable, Or Indecent? An FBI Investigation --

https://www.npr.org/2015/05/02/403623915/louie-louie-indecipherable-or-indecent-an-fbi-investigation


The above article not only describes the wildly extreme extents the FBI engaged in try to preserve 'Merican morality, it also includes a link to the actual FBI report on the song, complete with the FBI's analysis and text of the lyrics which are, to say the least, way far off from the actual lyrics of the song; it kind of makes one wonder if the FBI was engaging in a bit of imbibing while they were listening intently to those 'immoral' lyrics...

Oddly, if you listen to the original, unedited recording, the lead singer misses the cue after the middle guitar break and comes in too soon, catches his error, and stops to wait for the right cue; as he stops his mis-start, you can hear him, under his breath, swear, with a decidedly not clean word; oddly, the actual swear word in the recording is almost always missed by those commenting on the record...


An even weirder fact about Louie Louie is that the song was banned by a US university, the University of South Carolina, not because of the song's alleged racy lyrics, but because the song was seriously damaging the university's football stadium; the schools marching band would, like so many other school bands, play the song as part of their performances and the stadium crowd would join in singing the song, stomping their feet and swaying to the rhythm; so many people stomping and swaying at the same tome caused a resonance effect with the vibrations being at a near-perfect harmony with the structure's elements, cause alarming damage to the building; worries that continued renditions of Louie, Louie might bring the structure down caused the school's administration to ban any further performances; as far as I know, Louie, Louie is the only song ever to be banned for being structurally dangerous...




<O>


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfNZZPuYzE

:D:haha::rock:

[Jimbuna]

The sun makes up more than 99 percent of our solar system's mass.

[Platapus]

The female opossum has 13 nipples.

[Aktungbby]

That's odd!:O:

[Catfish]

The Sun makes up more than 99 percent of our solar system's mass.
That's a lot, even for Rupert Murdoch.

[Jimbuna]

That's a lot, even for Rupert Murdoch.

:haha:

[Jimbuna]

There's a tiny home in Virginia called the "Spite House" because that's why it was built.

[Sean C]

There's a tiny home in Virginia called the "Spite House" because that's why it was built.


I must've walked by that house a thousand times. Old Town was one of my favorite hangouts as a young man. There was an interesting "park" at the end of the street that had an obelisk and giant pieces of crumbled statues. I took my wife there once when we were dating.


https://i.imgur.com/ap5VFosh.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/E430Rith.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/69BcYyhh.jpg

[Aktungbby]

^ Here's more: https://www.treehugger.com/uniquely-annoying-spite-houses-4868534 I pass this one in Alameda when patrolling or going to Alameda Naval Air Station https://www.treehugger.com/thmb/iM-iO-1CIA_E-DAWAQ12VmTtxig=/768x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc() :format(webp)/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migrati on__mnn__images__2017__10__Alemada_SpiteHouse-8b274640081740938cce448e0b939eed.jpg <A particularly infamous and impractically sited spite house in Alameda, California. The 10-foot-wide abode was built by a landowner to agitate both the city and an indifferent neighbor after his land was seized for a road construction project. As a former RE appraiser: something like this would tend to affect neighboring prices as it is an 'underimprovement' for the neighborhood especially in upscale Alameda Island...:hmmm: and the increase in traffic if it is an attraction is equally annoying.

[Jimbuna]

In old Christian art, good angels were red and Satan was blue.

[Jimbuna]

The tallest supported bamboo sculpture is more than 164-feet high.

[Platapus]

About one in every 4 million lobsters is born with a rare genetic defect that turns it blue.

[Jimbuna]

A Harry Potter book filled with typos sold for $90,000.

[Platapus]

The famous "Heisman pose" is based on Ed Smith, a former NYU running back who modeled for the trophy’s sculptor in 1934.

[Moonlight]

Butch and femme are terms used in the lesbian subculture to ascribe or acknowledge a masculine (butch) or feminine (femme) identity with its associated traits, behaviors, styles, self-perception, and so on. The terms were founded in lesbian communities in the twentieth century.

[Jimbuna]

There is a metallic asteroid shaped like a dog bone named "Kleopatra."

[Jimbuna]

Queen Elizabeth II's cows sleep on waterbeds.

[Von Due]

A postcard with a picture of the late King Olav V (Kong Olav V in Norwegian) is for sale as
Norwegian King Kong Olav V Portrait OSLO, NORWAY Vintage Antique Postcard

[Von Due]

Sahara and Gobi are two words that translate to English as "desert". The Sahara desert is thus the desert desert. Thats pretty desert-y.

[Aktungbby]

riding your 1-hump dromedary in the Sahara or your 2-hump Bactrian in the Gobi whilst munching dates could be considered desert-y just-desserts?

[Jimbuna]

A journalist in 1950 predicted that women in the year 2000 would be amazons like Wonder Woman.

[Von Due]

Gvprtskvni is an actual word. Any Georgian speaking to me will be met with "bless you!"

[Platapus]

Before going with Blue Devils, Duke considered the nicknames Blue Eagles, Royal Blazes, Blue Warriors and Polar Bears.

[Jimbuna]

A British teen changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."

[vienna]

Sahara and Gobi are two words that translate to English as "desert". The Sahara desert is thus the desert desert. Thats pretty desert-y.


In Los Angeles, the famed fossil depository The La Brea Tar Pits is a major tourist attraction; the Spanish word 'brea' in English is 'tar', and 'la' is the feminine form of the English word 'the', so The La Brea Tar Pits are really "The The Tar Tar Pits"...

...wonder if that goes well with fish and chips...

...and I'd tell you that the the mountain range The Grand Tetons translates into from Spanish, but, well, the moderators maybe watching... :03:





<O>

[Von Due]

The Tree of Ténéré was a vital navigational waypoint in the heart of the Sahara. It sat in isolation, hundreds of miles from any other tree, marking the route from Niger to Algeria until it was knocked down by a Libyan trucker in 1973.

Now that's marksmanship!

[Aktungbby]

...and I'd tell you that the the mountain range The Grand Tetons translates into from Spanish, but, well, the moderators maybe watching... :03:<O> U mean from French U ol' bugger! I've actually quipped on that in PM and to an old college lady classmate who worked at USGS in Menlo Park. Both the Mountain Range and the National Park name are certainly not politically correct in the age of 'Big Tits Matter' :doh:...and we are well past the age of Sacajawea's love-starved Fench fur-trapper hubby, Toussaint Charbonneau, who probably named those alluring white-capped lofty peaks...the name could be passably changed to Les Dècolletage Blancs though! But then I've been known to trap a little beaver myself from time to time! https://image.shutterstock.com/image-vector/cartoon-style-fur-hunter-musket-260nw-708494167.jpg

[vienna]

U mean from French U ol' bugger! I've actually quipped on that in PM and to an old college lady classmate who worked at USGS in Menlo Park. Both the Mountain Range and the National Park name are certainly not politically correct in the age of 'Big Tits Matter' :doh:...and we are well past the age of Sacajawea's love-starved Fench fur-trapper hubby, Toussaint Charbonneau, who probably named those alluring white-capped lofty peaks...the name could be passably changed to Les Dècolletage Blancs though! But then I've been known to trap a little beaver myself from time to time!https://image.shutterstock.com/image-vector/cartoon-style-fur-hunter-musket-260nw-708494167.jpg


You are right, it was French-named, but the word is the same in Spanish and, since I was dealing in Spanish translations...

...and now another quirky Spanish word: esposa, a word that means both "wife" and "handcuff"...




<O>

[Von Due]

The number of digits in the number of digits in the number of digits in Graham's Number is too large to fit inside the Universe.

[Von Due]

Next to Tree(3), Graham's number is indistinguishable from zero.

[Von Due]

Useless facts are useful in making a forum thread.

[Jimbuna]

According to the Bible, the chicken came before the egg.

[Jimbuna]

Facial reconstruction was used to see what dogs looked like 4,000 years ago.

[Platapus]

For one day in 1998, Topeka, Kansas, renamed itself "ToPikachu" to mark Pokemon's U.S. debut.

[Rockstar]

honey is made by bees barfing up the pollen they ate earlier.

[Jimbuna]

The Bubonic plague encouraged Shakespeare to write poetry.

[Rockstar]

Bears do poop in the woods

[Aktungbby]

....and the trees falling in the forest!:o

[Rockstar]

I've had the experience of witnessing a bear pooping in the woods so I know that to be true.


But, if a tree falls in the forest, and there’s nobody around to hear, does it make a sound?


It may not.

https://blog.oup.com/2011/02/quantum/

... we can no longer assume that the properties we measure necessarily reflect or represent the properties of the particles as they really are. These properties are like secondary qualities – they exist only in relation to our measuring devices. This does not mean that quantum particles are not real. What it does mean is that we can ascribe to them only an empirical reality, a reality that depends on our method of questioning. Without a measuring device to record it, there is a sense in which the recognisable properties of quantum particles such as electrons do not exist, just as the falling tree makes no sound at all.

[Jimbuna]

Antarctica is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.

[Platapus]

Horses can't vomit.

[Jimbuna]

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

[Aktungbby]

Horses can't vomit.but they can sure cough up icky green stuff, if afflicted with the 'heaves' (equine COPD)all over the guy putting in the bit when brideling the nag!:wah:

[Jimbuna]

No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter “a” in its word form.

[Rockstar]

the pope wears a funny hat

[Von Due]

Ελληνικά is Greek to English speakers.

[Jimbuna]

Edgar Allan Poe married his thirteen-year-old cousin.

[Rockstar]

Just five years after Japan surrendered. It contributed 46 ships and 1200 former Imperial Japanese Navy personnel for combat duty in support of allied forces during the Korean war.

[Platapus]

Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney also considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.

[Buddahaid]

Shopping locally. I end up ordering most of what I'm looking for from Amazon because the local stores almost never have what I'm looking for!:k_confused:

[Platapus]

On the average, it takes about 53 hours for food to go from mouth to ... uh.. final product.

[Jimbuna]

The Super Soaker was designed and invented by a NASA engineer.

[Platapus]

Herbert Hoover was Stanford's football team manager. At the first Stanford-Cal game in 1892, he forgot to bring the ball.

[Jimbuna]

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

[Platapus]

The unkempt Shaggy of Scooby-Doo fame has a rather proper real name—Norville Rogers.

[Jimbuna]

Salt used to be a currency.

[Aktungbby]

Salt used to be a currency.No doubt many a centurion licked his salarium in his atria's solarium to prevent heatstroke while roamin' around Mare Nostrum. :haha:

[Jimbuna]

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

[Platapus]

Hawaiian Punch was originally developed in 1934 as a tropical flavored ice cream topping.

[Jimbuna]

There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.

[mapuc]

There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.

For most of us this may be useless facts, but not for a veterinarian

Markus

[Catfish]

How does a veterinarian cure a problem with the 17th muscle in a cat's right ear :hmmm:

[Platapus]

Jacuzzi is a brand name. You can also buy Jacuzzi toilets and mattresses.

[Von Due]

Great white sharks have been spotted feeding on seals off the coast of Alaska.

[Jimbuna]

Junk food is as addictive as drugs.

[Jimbuna]

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

[Platapus]

During a 2004 episode of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster said that before he started eating cookies, his name was Sid.

[Eichhörnchen]

I just had ham sandwiches for my lunch

[Jimbuna]

A dragonfly has a lifespan of only one day.

[Platapus]

The Corduroy Appreciation Club celebrated 11-11-11 as The Day That Most Resembles Corduroy.

[Jimbuna]

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

[Platapus]

The word "PEZ" comes from the German word for peppermint—PfeffErminZ

[Jimbuna]

Toy Story helped sell the Etch-a-Sketch.

[Platapus]

Failed PEZ flavors include coffee, eucalyptus, menthol, and flower.

[Aktungbby]

Honey is the only food that does not spoil."That B mead to my purpose!":Kaleun_Cheers:

[Jimbuna]

Four out of five children recognize the Mcdonald’s logo at three years old.

[Platapus]

The duffel bag gets its name from the town of Duffel, Belgium, where the cloth used in the bags was originally sold.

[Jimbuna]

Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004. (Don’t worry. They got back together in 2011.)

[Platapus]

In 1955, the New York State Labor Department ruled that "there is nothing inherently repulsive about a Van Dyke beard."

[Aktungbby]

/\ there is when I'm wearing a speedo!:O:

[Jimbuna]

One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.

[Platapus]

A chef's hat has exactly 100 pleats.

[Jimbuna]

It’s impossible to tickle yourself.

[Platapus]

The expression OMG dates back to 1917.

[Aktungbby]

It’s impossible to tickle yourself.

The expression OMG dates back to 1917.OMG! Jimbuna's not doin' it right!:doh:

[Jimbuna]

It’s also impossible for you to lick your own elbow.

[Aktungbby]

It’s also impossible for you to lick your own elbow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8g_OqZimtk :doh:

[mapuc]

It’s also impossible for you to lick your own elbow.

And of course I had to try it without any success only thing is I now have pain in my left shoulder.

Not to forget-Thank you for your interesting Useless facts updates. fascinating to read, but not enough useable to memories it.

Markus

[Platapus]

Although rare, there are cats that are allergic to Humans

[Jeff-Groves]

It's proven that if you post a useless fact?
Some people will try to see if they are real facts!
mapuc is a case in point!
:har:

[Jeff-Groves]

There is a theory that Humans can't lick their private parts for a reason.
The theory says if they could? We'd not be as advanced as we are since We'd spend to much time licking those parts!

:hmmm:

[Rockstar]

The main reason for divorce is marriage.

[Platapus]

A three-fer


Oranges are not a naturally occurring fruit.

The original hybrids were actually green



and were called Chinese Grapefruit.

[Jimbuna]

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

[Platapus]

In 1922, the American Association of State Highway Officials met to determine a standard design for stop signs, and that's where they decided on the color—yellow.

[Jimbuna]

3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.

[Platapus]

New York City


Before it was the Big Apple, it was New Orange.


When the Dutch captured New York from the English in 1673, they renamed it "New Orange" in honor of William III of Orange. The following year, the English regained control and ditched the "Orange."

[Aktungbby]

The original hybrids were actually green



and were called Chinese Grapefruit.New York City


Before it was the Big Apple, it was New Orange.


When the Dutch captured New York from the English in 1673, they renamed it "New Orange" in honor of William III of Orange. The following year, the English regained control and ditched the "Orange." When China takes over, it'll be Chinese Grapefruit!:x

[Jimbuna]

The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

[Platapus]

There was a successful Tinder Match in Antarctica in 2014

[Jimbuna]

Oreo has made enough cookies to span five back and forth trips to the moon.

[Sean C]

Oreo has made enough cookies to span five back and forth trips to the moon.


That may be a useless fact, but it's really impressive if you consider the actual distance to the Moon. It's a lot farther away than it looks:


https://i.imgur.com/IOw6nh1h.jpg

I made this image to scale.

[Platapus]

The flags of Monaco and Indonesia look almost identical


The primary difference is the ratio.



Monaco 4:5 and Indonesia 2:3


There is also a difference in the Red between them

[Von Due]

The Danish word for laugh is the same as the Norwegian word for cry.

[Jimbuna]

A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel can.

[Platapus]

The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 2 Billion degrees kelvin
That's about 3.6 billion degrees F!

As a comparison, the interior of our sun is a relatively cool 15 million degrees K.

Those wacky scientists at Sandia National Labs using the "Z-machine" in 2006
The strangest part is that the scientist still don't know how those temperatures were reached. :o

[Jimbuna]

Due to a genetic defect, cats can’t taste sweet things.

[Aktungbby]

Due to a genetic defect, cats can’t taste sweet things.My aging genome is certainly doing much the same thing for me!:doh::oops::dead:

[Jimbuna]

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

[Platapus]

You may be drinking water that is older than our Solar System

[Jimbuna]

The average American spends about 2.5 days a year looking for lost items.

[Platapus]

Engineering students at Purdue University claim that on the average, it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop. However this was using an artificial licking machine they developed.



(yeah, that's why these dorky engineering nerds invented a licking machine)



This has been challenged

20 volunteers tried the experiment using their actual tongues and averaged 252 licks.


Other studies averaged out to 144 (Swarthmore Junior High School) and 411 (University of Michigan) licks.

[Rockstar]

Peter Sellars was to perform the role of the B52 Command Pilot in the movie Dr. Stranglove. But because of injury he was unable to work in the confined space of the aircraft set. So Slim Pickens was called to play the role of Major Kong.


https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YAoclQBkres/X0Qin9iqsQI/AAAAAAAAD6U/UUs4SoVjd9ktAtV7S7jNdmsnb8QyxOn8QCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Dr-Strangelove-Slim-Pickens_opt.jpg

[Platapus]

Dan Blocker and John Wayne were also considered for the part of Kong.


I don't think either of them could have carried it off as well as Pickens

[Von Due]

In 1898, Nikola Tesla demonstrated the world's first radio controlled boat.

[Aktungbby]

Dan Blocker and John Wayne were also considered for the part of Kong.


I don't think either of them could have carried it off as well as Pickens
:agree::sign_yeah: https://images.genius.com/00281f08d1e436dd22fdbd9eaf5f68c9.580x393x1.jpg:Kal eun_Applaud: the best scene in the whole movie!

[Jimbuna]

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

[Von Due]

The number 3^3^3^3 has more than 3.6 trillion digits in it

[Jimbuna]

Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a bellybutton.

[Platapus]

Charles Darwin's pet tortoise died in 2006. At 176 years old, she out lived Charles by 124 years

[Jeff-Groves]

There are probably 3 active Members of SubSim that can edit Game files for SH3 - SH5 on a Hex level.
Of those only 2 can change things that no available free tool can do.
Of those only 1 can edit animations in SH4.

[Platapus]

A bolt of lightening contains enough energy to toast. 100,000 pieces of bread

[Jimbuna]

If you plug your nose, you can’t tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.

[Platapus]

Cherophobia is the word for the irrational fear of being happy.

[mapuc]

Cherophobia is the word for the irrational fear of being happy.

Could the word cheers come from the word Cherophibia ?

Markus

[Platapus]

Could the word cheers come from the word Cherophibia ?

Markus


It comes from the Greek word “chero,” which means “to rejoice.”


Which may also qualify as a useless fact. :D

[Jimbuna]

Most babies are conceived in December.

[Platapus]

You can hear a Blue Whale's heartbeat up to two miles away. It can be easy to miss as it only beats 8-10 times per minute

[Von Due]

You can hear a Blue Whale's heartbeat up to two miles away. It can be easy to miss as it only beats 8-10 times per minute

The inexperienced vetrinarian with the stethoscope is in for one huge surprise.

[Platapus]

A blue whale's heart can weigh as much as 1,300 pounds and be the size of a small car

[Von Due]

The muskox is less an ox and more a very large goat.

[Aktungbby]

Most babies are conceived in December. Generally on Christmas Eve; when all through the house, not a creature is stirring...except for her louse! :Kaleun_Salivating::O:

[Jimbuna]

Most car horns are in the key of F.

[mapuc]

Here's another historical useless fact

In 1918, the legendary American General George S. Patton visited the French city of Bourg. Here the mayor told him about the fallen American soldier whom they still honored in the city. Patton had never heard of a fallen soldier in Bourg and therefore chose to visit the burial site with the mayor, after which the truth dawned on Patton. During the First World War, the American soldiers had dug a latrine in the city, which they had covered and put a cross on with the inscription "Abandoned Rear". The French believed that this was the name of a fallen American soldier, and when Patton failed to reveal the truth, the latrine remained a soldier's grave until World War II.

Markus

[Platapus]

Ants in Manhattan



On Broadway medians between 63rd and 76th streets, biologists discovered a new species of ant. They named it ManhattAnt

[Jimbuna]

New Jersey grows two-thirds of the world’s eggplants.

[Platapus]

Not sure this is a useless fact but here goes


In 1992, a cargo ship traveling from Hong Kong to the United States accidentally lost a shipping crate in the Pacific Ocean. Inside that crate were 28,000 Rubber Ducks unwittingly about to embark on many long journeys across the globe. As rubber ducks continue to pop up on shores from Australia to Alaska, they’ve enlightened our understanding of ocean currents. Some have made it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean while others have been found frozen in Arctic ice.

[Jimbuna]

Almonds are members of the peach family.

[Aktungbby]

Not sure this is a useless fact but here goes


In 1992, a cargo ship traveling from Hong Kong to the United States accidentally lost a shipping crate in the Pacific Ocean. Inside that crate were 28,000 Rubber Ducks unwittingly about to embark on many long journeys across the globe. As rubber ducks continue to pop up on shores from Australia to Alaska, they’ve enlightened our understanding of ocean currents. Some have made it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean while others have been found frozen in Arctic ice.Yipes!:O: anything that gives us "enlightenment" is necessarily not a useless fact!:shucks:

[Jimbuna]

Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones.

[Platapus]

The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after he died.

[Jimbuna]

About 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out weird sexual positions per year.

[mapuc]

^ that is what I would call top of useless facts

Markus

[Platapus]

Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.

[Jimbuna]

Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2726118&postcount=291 :smug:

[Von Due]

Bangkok’s full name is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

[Platapus]

One in three divorce filings include the word "Facebook."

[Aktungbby]

About 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out weird sexual positions per year. just ask David Carradine:O::doh::oops::dead:

[Jimbuna]

There are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.

[Platapus]

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, is the largest pyramid in the world

[Von Due]

At Last The 1948 Show was first aired in 1967.

[Jimbuna]

You spray 2.5 drops of saliva per word.

[Moonlight]

^That can't be right, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" must have more drops than the word "bollocks" does, it's bloody fake news again. :O:

[Jeff-Groves]

Your eyes can detect a candle flame 1.7 miles away.
In the USA, Candles cause an estimated 15,600 house fires, 150 deaths, and 1,270 injuries each year.

Statistics don't tell us if those people were Blind.

[Jimbuna]

Mary Shelley allegedly lost her virginity on her mother’s grave.

[Jeff-Groves]

The American incarnation of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914.
Jarvis later denounced the holiday’s commercialization and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar.

I've been by the home of Jarvis and her Mother in West Virginia.
So 2 for 1 useless facts.

[Aktungbby]

Mary Shelley allegedly lost her virginity on her mother’s grave. For which Percy Shelly atoned a short time later :oops: :dead:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Louis_Edouard_Fournier_-_The_Funeral_of_Shelley_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/300px-Louis_Edouard_Fournier_-_The_Funeral_of_Shelley_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

[Catfish]

During the black death, incoming ships were forced to wait 40 days to prevent possible infection.
The italian word "quaranta" for 40 is where the word quarantine comes from.

[ET2SN]

For which Percy Shelly atoned a short time later :oops: :dead:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Louis_Edouard_Fournier_-_The_Funeral_of_Shelley_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/300px-Louis_Edouard_Fournier_-_The_Funeral_of_Shelley_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Smoked to death? :hmmm:

[Aktungbby]

The famous Percy Shelley, the John Lennon of his time, drowned sailing his new sailboat and washed up on the Italian coast ...some fortnight later... not looking as good as in the contemporary painting of his beachside cremation. My great-grandfather drowned similarly on the St Lawrence river testing his new boat: in front of his wife and my grandmother. Naturally I tend to recollect these things when aboard the 35+ year-old Catalina in the Carquinez Strait!:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

A shark is the only animal that can blink both its eyes.

[Jimbuna]

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

[Sean C]

A shark is the only animal that can blink both its eyes.


:hmmm: I'm pretty sure I've seen plenty of animals blink both eyes. Do you mean independently ... like winking?

[Jimbuna]

:hmmm: I'm pretty sure I've seen plenty of animals blink both eyes. Do you mean independently ... like winking?

@1:04 :03:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhqwCSEBEAI

[Von Due]

Window glass is a solid liquid or a liquid solid if you like.

[Jimbuna]

If your stomach doesn’t produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, it will digest itself.

[Jimbuna]

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

[Jeff-Groves]

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

10 mg of Melatonin will cut that down to about 2 minutes, for the average person, if taken a half hour before bed.
I take 30 mg every night. But I'm abnormal.

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/rNmjSPq.jpg I know how to cut that down to 2 seconds

[Jimbuna]

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

[Aktungbby]

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. I'm suffering from porcine envy!:O:

[Von Due]

The human body and the golden ratio have little to do with each other.

[Jeff-Groves]

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

It's going to take 30 years to get that image out of my head!
:o

[Catfish]

Image? What image? I want to know!

[Aktungbby]

The human body and the golden ratio have little to do with each other.:hmmm:

It's going to take 30 years to get that image out of my head!
:o:k_confused:

Image? What image? I want to know! oh no u don't!:har::oops: :nope: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=11853

[Jeff-Groves]

I tried to warn him!!!
:o

[Jimbuna]

In 1912, a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, and wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.

[Catfish]

The first known cat with a name was an egyptian cat named Nejem meaning 'Sweetie', and lived 3500 years ago during the reign of Thutmosis III.

[Eisenwurst]

The T Model Ford had a 3 litre engine, no streamlining, and did 30 mpg ( on a good day ).

[Aktungbby]

In 1912, a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, and wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.if only the Titanic had done the same...:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

More Monopoly money is printed in a year than actual money throughout the world.

[Catfish]

if only the Titanic had done the same...:hmmm:
You mean the iceberg would have evaded then :hmmm:

[Von Due]

170 factorial is the largest factorial you can compute through the Google search engine.

[Von Due]

A regular sudoku with a single solution needs at least 17 clues to be solvable.

[Von Due]

The tritone, a.k.a. the devil's interval, suffered no frowning upon or ban in medieval times but was used alongside other intervals with no dire consequences.