useless facts

[Jimbuna]

Finland has the most metal bands per capita.

[Von Due]

The last person to be publicly executed in Norway, was sentenced to be beheaded for stealing a slice of bread, together with the purse, the horse, the sled and the clothes belonging to the previous owner, before murdering the same ex owner with an axe. During interrogations he insisted that everything they found during a search was his, included the purse with the victim's name in it, as well as the bloodied clothes and boots several sizes too small. His attemps to fit the small boots on his large feet when the court ordered him to, did not convince the law they had the wrong man, despite his enthustiastic attempts.

[Aktungbby]

His attemps to fit the small boots on his large feet when the court ordered him to, did not convince the law they had the wrong man, despite his enthustiastic attempts.Decidedly the obverse of the famous OJ Simpson murder trial with evidence gloves found at scene: "If the glove don't fit, U must aquit!"...it didn't fit.:ohttps://i.pinimg.com/564x/55/ca/a9/55caa934306013215a6b9e399a2e002f.jpg

[Jimbuna]

In 1993, Rod Stewart hosted the largest free concert.

[Jimbuna]

Somali pirates have such a hatred for Western culture, that the British Navy uses music from Britney Spears to scare them off.

[Jeff-Groves]

I'll add to Jim's post.
AWOL statistics dropped for British Naval Personnel 50% after the start of using her music on Pirates.
:hmmm:

[Von Due]

Leo Fender, who designed some of the most famous guitars, could not for the life of him play guitar.

[Von Due]

If Ramanujan's name is coded in such a way that A=1, B=2 and so on, and the numbers are added together, one gets 93.
1729 mod(93) = 55 which equals the sum of all the 10 digits.

[Jeff-Groves]

One of the first solid-body guitars was invented by Les Paul.
However! Gibson did not believe it would sell.
The first mass-produced solid-body guitar was Fender Esquire and Fender Broadcaster (later to become the Fender Telecaster), first made in 1948, five years after Les Paul made his prototype.

[Catfish]

Somali pirates have such a hatred for Western culture, that the British Navy uses music from Britney Spears to scare them off.
I would not have thought Somali pirates had that much taste...
I'll add to Jim's post.
AWOL statistics dropped for British Naval Personnel 50% after the start of using her music on Pirates. :hmmm:
.. or that british personnel had so few.

[Jeff-Groves]

I'm right there with you on that train of thought!
And another useless fact!

[Catfish]

^ :haha::)

[Eichhörnchen]

Dick Van Dyke's first wedding was broadcast live over the radio on a show called "Bride & Groom"

Quote: "The show offered romantic hopefuls a free ceremony and various prizes in exchange for the live broadcast and post-service interviews"

[Jimbuna]

Metallica is the only band to have played on all seven continents. (Yes, including Antarctica.)

[Von Due]

If you scale down the observable universe to our solar system, the moon would be about 0.1 micrometer away from earth.

[Jimbuna]

Prince is credited with playing 27 different instruments on his debut album.

[Rockstar]

'useless' facts in regards to COVID vaccinations: the E.U. Merkel, and von der Leyen

[Sean C]

Prince is credited with playing 27 different instruments on his debut album.


One of the most underrated musicians of our time, IMHO. Check out this amazing performance:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

[Catfish]

Prince was a great musician, but i hated Purple Rain.
Also a useless fact.

[Moonlight]

If female ferrets don't have sex they will die of aplastic anaemia unless medical intervention occurs.

[Jimbuna]

In 2015, astronaut Chris Hadfield released an album while still in space.

[Aktungbby]

Prince is credited with playing 27 different instruments on his debut album.

One of the most underrated musicians of our time, IMHO. Check out this amazing performance:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

Prince was a great musician, but i hated Purple Rain.
Also a useless fact.the very definition of Minnesota Nice :O:

[Von Due]

Tremolo in music is when there is a cyclic change in volume. Vibrato in music is when there is a cyclic change in pitch. This is why guitars come with tremolo systems to cyclically change the pitch. Engineers are not necessarily musicians.

[Jeff-Groves]

In 2015, astronaut Chris Hadfield released an album while still in space.
:hmmm:
I believe he recorded some stuff while up there.
But think the actual album was released later?

[Jimbuna]

Women hiccup less than men.

[Jimbuna]

The two highest IQ scores in history both belonged to women.

[Platapus]

Dolphins have individual names for each other.


Rumor has it that they don't like the name Flipper

[Jeff-Groves]

The famous "voice" of Flipper was actually the doctored song of a kookaburra bird.

So all that time We were getting the 'bird' from the producers!
:o

[fireftr18]

The two highest IQ scores in history both belonged to women.
Could that be because they're not busy with the hiccups?

[Jeff-Groves]

The two highest IQ scores in history both belonged to women.

The Top 3 I come up with are Male.
Maybe your using an Old Browser to search?
:hmmm:

[Rockstar]

The Top 3 I come up with are Male.
Maybe your using an Old Browser to search?
:hmmm:




Maybe you're just a misogynist, did you ever think of that huh, huh?




https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/b2/5a/a0b25a6c259e7c276da33cc5b9365a86.png

[Jeff-Groves]

You know all those episodes will be taken off TV real soon right?
:haha:

Not sure if this counts as a useless fact?

[Moonlight]

My search brings this list up from 2017.

Here Is The Highest Possible IQ And The People Who Hold The World Record
https://sciencetrends.com/highest-possible-iq-people-hold-world-record/

Ainan Celeste Cawley (IQ score of 263)
William James Sidis (IQ score of 250-300)
Terence Tao (IQ score between 225 and 230)
Marilyn Vos Savant (IQ score of 228)
Christopher Hirata (IQ score of 225)
Kim Ung-Yong (IQ score of 210)
Edith Stern (IQ score over 200)
Christopher Michael Langan (IQ score between 190 and 210)
Garry Kasparov (IQ score of 194)
Philip Emeagwali (IQ score of 190)
Judit Polgar (IQ score of 170)
Albert Einstein (IQ score between 160 and 190)
Stephen Hawking (IQ score of 160)

[Jeff-Groves]

SEE! I'm NOT a Woman Hater!
Heck! I married 3 Women!
:haha:

And that is NOT a useless fact to ME!

[Platapus]

Superman helped bring down the KKK


In the 1940s, the popular Adventures of Superman radio program ran a 16-episode series, incorporating the findings of activist Stetson Kennedy, who had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan but couldn't get local authorities to use the information to crack down on them. The creators of the Superman show used Kennedy's spy secrets to help tell the story of the "Clan of the Fiery Cross" exposing the organization to the public and earning it widespread mockery and condemnation.

[Jimbuna]

Know the name Ada Lovelace? You should! She was the very first computer programmer.

[mapuc]

The last name I knew about
First name was different and this person was acting in a different working area ​

Markus

[Platapus]

The apex predator with the highest kill rate is not the lion, the cheetah, or the wolf, it's the African wild dog. According to researchers, these lean, big-eared canines are noted for having a kill rate of 85 percent—lions get just 17 to 19 percent—while peregrine falcons get 47 percent of their targets. Another animal with surprisingly high kill rates? Domestic cats, which kill more than 30 percent of their targets

[Jeff-Groves]

The last name I knew about
First name was different and this person was acting in a different working area ​

Markus
You have a dirty mind!!
Another useless fact.
:haha:

[Jimbuna]

It’s been calculated that the average woman will “eat” about four pounds of lipstick throughout the course of her life.

[Aktungbby]

in 2daze WSJ:o: there R more real estate agents than houses for sale nationwide....:hmmm:!!??

[Jimbuna]

The country of Russia is bigger than Pluto.

[Platapus]

48 countries celebrate their independence day from the United Kingdom.

[Jeff-Groves]

But does the UK celebrate getting rid of the trouble makers?
:hmmm:

[Rockstar]

Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting, unwitting individuals.


Hurry and get your vaccines :har:

[Jeff-Groves]

I have about 45 minutes to go for Midnight Climax.
Another useless fact.
Or is it?
:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a moustache.

[mapuc]

(An off topic comment)
This is our Useless Facts.

Maybe another member could start a thread called

Useful facts-where those of us have may have some interesting/useful facts we will share with the rest of us.

Markus
(End of an off topic comment)

[Platapus]

Sears used to sell houses

[Jeff-Groves]

This is our Useless Facts.


^
Another useless fact.
:har:

[Platapus]

Manhattan tap water isn't kosher

Tiny crustaceans have been detected in the tap water of New York City, and while these creatures pose no health threat, they technically disqualify the water from being considered kosher.

[Jimbuna]

“Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends with “mt.”

[Platapus]

“Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends with “mt.”


You already used that one on 4 Jan. :D


A US park ranger has been struck by Lightening seven times and survived.

[Rockstar]

Appromt is the other word that ends in 'mt' according to Webster's 1913 edition.

[Jimbuna]

You already used that one on 4 Jan. :D



Appromt is the other word that ends in 'mt' according to Webster's 1913 edition.

Shoulda checked :oops:

[Jimbuna]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

[Jeff-Groves]

^
Now THAT'S something to write home about!
:doh:

[Platapus]

When Queen Elizabeth paid a royal visit to the set of Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland, she refused to sit on the Iron Throne for legal reasons.



Apparently the Queen of England is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne.

[Rockstar]

When Queen Elizabeth paid a royal visit to the set of Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland, she refused to sit on the Iron Throne for legal reasons.



Apparently the Queen of England is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne.




Can someone explain to me then what hell the Queen has to do to drop a deuce if she can't sit on the throne in a foreign country?

[Jimbuna]

It’s possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds.

[Platapus]

On the average, South Koreans are 4 centimeters taller than North Koreans

[Jimbuna]

Dragonflies have six legs but can’t walk.

[Platapus]

A survey of funeral directors by Co-operative Funeralcare found that the most requested song to play at funerals in the United Kingdom is "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" by Monty Python from their irreverent comedy classic Life of Brian.

[Rockstar]

USAF EAM code name 'Skybird' means: 'Alert all bombers aloft'.

[Jimbuna]

A survey of funeral directors by Co-operative Funeralcare found that the most requested song to play at funerals in the United Kingdom is "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" by Monty Python from their irreverent comedy classic Life of Brian.

If I go before the wife I've requested the Elvis song 'Always On My Mind'

[Aktungbby]

If I go before the wife I've requested the Elvis song 'Always On My Mind'Elvis's "In My Way" is nearer the mark!:haha::oops::dead:

[Jimbuna]

Linda Lou Taylor of Indiana holds the Guinness World Record for the most married person. She’s been married 23 times.

[Platapus]

The most successful pirate in the world was a woman


The 19th-century Chinese pirate Ching Shih widow of fearsome pirate Cheng I, became a hugely successful pirate in her own right, succeeding her husband and eventually commanding more than 1,800 pirate ships and 80,000 men.

[Catfish]

^ Are you sure you do not mistake her with Queen Elizabeth :O:

[Rockstar]

At 1:22pm on July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt became the first woman ever to be executed by the United States government.

[Moonlight]

^Surratt was arrested, then tried by a military tribunal the following month, along with the other conspirators. She was convicted primarily due to the testimonies of Lloyd, who said that she told him to have the "shooting irons" ready, and Louis J. Weichmann, who testified about Surratt's relationships with Confederate groups and sympathizers.

A knee jerk killing or a miscarriage of justice?, why was she tried by a military tribunal?, that bollocks ^ would not have held water under a proper civilian trial and that's why she was tried by a military tribunal instead.

The poor currant was bleeding murdered. :o

[Jimbuna]

Bears don’t poop during hibernation.

[Platapus]

Black Bears, after coming out of "hibernation" will seek out and eat Skunk Cabbage as it is a natural laxative.



Black bears can go as long as 100 days without pooping during "hibernation" and they get very constipated.



The result, as I have seen, is quite impressive

[Aktungbby]

/\ I couldn't bear to watch!:Kaleun_Sick:

[Jimbuna]

You are 13.8 times more likely to die on your birthday than any other day, something William Shakespeare can relate to.

[Platapus]

in 2015, A sea lion once saved a man's life


A man named Kevin Hines jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge but survived despite breaking his back. While it seemed he would not be long for this world, a sea lion came to the rescue, swimming beneath him and keeping him afloat until the coast guard arrived.

[Jimbuna]

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

[Platapus]

Rich Russians can hire fake ambulances as taxis


While "ambulance chaser" might be a slur in the United States, Russians take their selfish use of emergency vehicles to a whole other level by hiring "ambulance taxis"—luxuriously appointed ambulances they hire for $200 an hour that will blast their sirens to speed the passenger through traffic.

[Von Due]

In the early Commodore computers' random number generator, there was a hidden message that reads "Bill Gates Sucks".

[Platapus]

NASCAR drivers can lose up to 10 pounds in sweat due to high temperatures during races.

[Rockstar]

In 1960 CIA Project Aquiline was a long range vehicle concept that is considered a forerunner to today's multi-capability UAVs.

[Jimbuna]

Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.

[Platapus]

Victorians once used leeches to predict the weather.



unsuccessfully, I might add

[Jimbuna]

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.

[Platapus]

People in India spend 10+ hours a week reading, more than any other country in the world.

[Jimbuna]

On average, a human being will spend up to two weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.

[Platapus]

The Aurora Borealis has a sister phenomenon in the southern hemisphere called the Aurora Australis.

[Rockstar]

The fastest plane in the world is the NASA X-43 @ Mach 9.6. The previous record of mach 6.7 was held by the North American X-15.

[Platapus]

The fastest plane in the world is the NASA X-43 @ Mach 9.6. The previous record of mach 6.7 was held by the North American X-15.


That would depend on your definition of a "plane"


The Orbiter entered the atmosphere between Mach 10 and 20 depending on the mission. Personally, I would not consider the Orbiter to be an airplane, but others may disagree

[Jimbuna]

Rhubarb can spring up so fast that you can actually hear it grow.

[Platapus]

Your "funny bone" is actually a nerve. Ulnar nerve to be exact

[Aktungbby]

ULNAR is one of the gods I worship!:shucks:

[Jimbuna]

Due to their high oil content and lower water content, pistachios are prone to self-heating.

[Platapus]

Pineapples were named because they resembled pinecones

[Von Due]

The fairyflies can be as small as about 0.15mm or about 0.0059 inches. Standing next to a large plant cell it would sizewise be similar to the basketball player Sun Mingming standing next to a polar bear (not standing).

[Platapus]

Cap’N’Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.

[Eisenwurst]

A male squirrel can smell a female in heat from up to a mile away.

[Aktungbby]

That's how i know when your gonna post in the Whack-a- squirrel thread:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

In 1965, astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich into space for a six-hour mission.

[Platapus]

In 1965, astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich into space for a six-hour mission.


(Clearing my throat in that oh so annoying manner of mine)


Gemini 3 mission was 4 hours 52 minutes


Yeah, I don't have too many friends. :D


(Ain't even gonna bother with "snuck?". :06:

[Platapus]

Horatio Magellan Crunch originally came from Crunch Island

[Jimbuna]

The oldest known soup recipe dates back to 6,000 B.C. Among the ingredients? Hippopotamus and sparrow meat.

[Jimbuna]

In the 1830s, ketchup was used medicinally.

[Platapus]

Horatio Magellan Crunch has a monument of himself on Crunch Island. It is called Mount Crunchmore

[Jimbuna]

The number of hot dogs consumed on the Fourth of July could stretch from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles five times over.

[Platapus]

Cap’N’Crunch’s ship is called the S.S. Guppy


Which is rather odd as it does not appear to be powered by steam.

[Reece]

The number of hot dogs consumed on the Fourth of July could stretch from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles five times over.
Now that is useless information Jim!

[Sean C]

I now know more about Horatio Magellan Crunch, cap'n of the S.S. Guppy from Crunch Island (home of Mt. Crucnhmore), than I ever wanted to.


... which is, itself, a useless fact.

[mapuc]

The most important question is

Do we have a higher tendency to remember what our friends post here in this useless facts thread-than we do in thread where the information is useful ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

No one knows just how many stars are in space.

[mapuc]

No one knows just how many stars are in space.


There are twelve stars...in the EU flag :D

Markus

[Platapus]

Cap’N’Crunch may be the captain of his ship, but his rank is Commander

[Jimbuna]

A NASA spacesuit costs a cool $12,000,000.

[Catfish]

[...] Do we have a higher tendency to remember what our friends post here in this useless facts thread-than we do in thread where the information is useful ?
Markus
You mean other threads here are more useful than this one? :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

The footprints made on the moon will be there for 100 million years.

[Platapus]

In 2009, Jeanine Sugawara was devastated when she cracked open a box of Cap’N’Crunch Crunch Berries cereal to find that there wasn’t a single berry to be found in the box. Feeling “tricked” by the cereal company, she sued Quaker Oats, who owns Cap’N’Crunch, on the grounds of false advertising.


The complaint was quickly dismissed when the judge reminded her that there is no such thing as a “crunchberry.”

[Jimbuna]

Scientists have found a mass of water vapor cloud 10 billion light-years away from earth that is 140 trillion times the mass of water on Earth’s surface.

[Platapus]

The IKEA catalogue is the most widely printed book in the world.



200,000,000 copies every year. There are 72 different versions each focused on a different cultural region.

[Jimbuna]

The moon was once a piece of the Earth.

[Platapus]

Crocodiles are one of the oldest living species, having survived for more than 200 million years.

[Jimbuna]

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

[Aktungbby]

Every year you're alive increases your risk of dying by 10%...:o

[Jimbuna]

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

[Catfish]

Scientists have found a mass of water vapor cloud 10 billion light-years away from earth that is 140 trillion times the mass of water on Earth’s surface.
How would water "vapour" exist at what humans call -459.67 Fahrenheit .. a giant ice block?
Or is it heated by any star?

[Jimbuna]

How would water "vapour" exist at what humans call -459.67 Fahrenheit .. a giant ice block?
Or is it heated by any star?

Sorry Kai but I've absolutely no idea :doh:

[Catfish]

^ It seems to be indeed gaseous.. found this interesting, seems this refers to a discovery from 2011, they indeed found masses of water around a Quasar, heated by what appears to be a black hole at its' center. So useless info unless you do not want to get too close to the event horizon.

"A quasar (/ˈkweɪzɑːr/; also known as a quasi-stellar object, abbreviated QSO) is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN), in which a supermassive black hole with mass ranging from millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun is surrounded by a gaseous accretion disk."

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722.html

[Jimbuna]

Sorted :03:

[Platapus]

The largest snowflake on record measured 15 inches across

[Von Due]

The largest snowflake on record measured 15 inches across

That's small for a person, isn't it?

[Jimbuna]

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

[Platapus]

Scotland has over 400 words meaning snow.


Some examples:

“snaw” (snow), “feefle” (swirls of snow), and “flindrinkin” (a light snow shower). And that giant 15 inch snowflake that fell in Montana—that would be called a “skelf.”

[mapuc]

Scotland has over 400 words meaning snow.


Some examples:

“snaw” (snow), “feefle” (swirls of snow), and “flindrinkin” (a light snow shower). And that giant 15 inch snowflake that fell in Montana—that would be called a “skelf.”


Iceland should have 200 words for snow more correctly 200 words for snow/snow weather variations

Markus

[Jimbuna]

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

[Jimbuna]

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

[Platapus]

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.


:nope:


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/carrot-topped/

[Platapus]

In 1386, in France, a Pig was convicted and executed for killing a child. The defendant, a young pig, was arrested for attacking a baby’s face. When complications from the injuries ultimately killed the three-month-old, the pig was sent to jail and later, publicly executed after failing to provide a solid defense for its crimes.

[Von Due]

The dire wolf was not a wolf.

[Aktungbby]

/\ But when it dogpaddles across narrow Fjords, it is often in dire straits!:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

[Platapus]

In 2006, an Australian man opened a bid on the e-commerce platform for the country of New Zealand. Bids started at $0.01. Bidding prices climbed all the way to $3,000 before e-bay officials shut it down, adding “clearly New Zealand is not for sale.” Still, New Zealand was salty about the prank. The country’s foreign minister at the time even called it “nonsensical stupidity.”

[Aktungbby]

John Waye had a speaking role in Starwars IV!

[Platapus]

John Waye had a speaking role in Starwars IV!


Cool trivia. :up:

[Jimbuna]

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

[Jimbuna]

More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

[Platapus]

The US city of Boring has a sister city in Scotland named Dull.

[Jimbuna]

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

[Platapus]

There is no crying in space.


Astronauts try very hard not to cry while in space. The lack of gravity keeps the tears on the eyes and reportedly it can sting rather painfully.

[Jimbuna]

The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

[Aktungbby]

/\ not in "the red light" district!:O:

[Jimbuna]

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

[Platapus]

The chief translator of the European Parliament speaks 32 languages fluently

[Rockstar]

Maxwell Smart's first car used in the TV show 'Get Smart' was a 1961 Ferrari 250 PF Cabriolet.




https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a698bed1758e28c2a6a76a/1590137275454-O2COH2EATSKL91BTYZH5/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMnFNahgK3tWtS7IKFSoLAtZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZamWLI2zvYWH 8K3-s_4yszcp2ryTI0HqTOaaUohrI8PIe_92s6WciujKf2cSNsDpwI Ohp537KZcIkeb0GIoAMUMKMshLAGzx4R3EDFOm1kBS/tunnelram.net_get-smart_ferrari_pilot.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.

[Platapus]

The original story of "Beauty and the Beast" (1740) was written to help girls to accept arranged Marriage.

[Jimbuna]

Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world.

[Jeff-Groves]

The Opel GT was Agent 86's vehicle and used on the opening sequence during the final season of Get Smart.
https://www.imcdb.org/i011071.jpg

[Catfish]

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.
Gendering done correctly :up:

[Catfish]

The Opel GT was Agent 86's vehicle and used on the opening sequence during the final season of Get Smart.
https://www.imcdb.org/i011071.jpg
Nice for its time, but i always thought it was a mini copy of the Corvette ..

[Jeff-Groves]

Did you know the concept for the Corvette was called.........



Wait for it!


Project Opel!

:har:

[Jimbuna]

Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.

[Platapus]

The first roller coaster was invented at Coney Island as a way to distract people from sinful activities.

[Aktungbby]

^ Well duh! You certainly can't get 'lucky' in the back seat of a roller coaster:doh:

[Jimbuna]

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

[Platapus]

The German word “kummerspeck” means weight gained from emotional eating.

[Jimbuna]

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

[Platapus]

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.


It is all that extra air in the bag

[Platapus]

Continental plates drift at about the same rate as fingernails grow.

[Jeff-Groves]

The higher the pressure you compress air to.
The less it costs per PSI.
Roughly $1200 to compress to 4500 PSI
Compared to $100 to compress to 100 PSI
Down side being higher PSI means less usable CFM of air available.
Not exactly useless info unless you try to sand blast with a 4500 PSI compressor.

[Texas Red]

You can't hunt camels in Arizona.

[Aktungbby]

you can't hunt camels in ArizonaJust saw the rerun on the Western Channel of 'Death Valley Days' "Camel Train" episode https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTE4ODNlYjMtMTkxOS00OWFiLWFjOTMtOTRiZmM0MTRjND gzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTM3MDMyMDQ@._V1_UY268_CR87,0,18 2,268_AL_.jpg and again on the old Maverick show " Relic of Ft Tejon" with James Garner:yeah: https://mavericktrails.com/images/bret-fatima.png?crc=3989493347 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/whatever-happened-wild-camels-american-west-180956176/ MOREOVER, this Company's trailer logo was a common sight in my Trukkin Daze!! https://campbell66express.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/c66-covercropped.jpg:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

You can't hunt camels in Arizona.If U can't stay focused you'll never make the Academy!:O:

[Catfish]

^ we already had this Camel running gag several times :har:

[Jimbuna]

Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.

[Platapus]

The concept of Brunch was created in 1895 as a "cure" for hangovers

[Jimbuna]

In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

[Jeff-Groves]

1 out of every 5 people pick their nose at least 5 times a day.
That comes to 1,515,426,080+ people booger mining 5 times each day!
:o

[Jeff-Groves]

There is no scientific word for boogers.
However, there is a scientific word for nose picking.
It’s called “rhinotillexomania.”

[Jeff-Groves]

1 booger equals 20 calories, 5 mg of sodium, 3 g of protein, 5% vitamin C, and 25% iron.

[Texas Red]

There is no scientific word for boogers.
However, there is a scientific word for nose picking.
It’s called “rhinotillexomania.”

1 booger equals 20 calories, 5 mg of sodium, 3 g of protein, 5% vitamin C, and 25% iron.

1 out of every 5 people pick their nose at least 5 times a day.
That comes to 1,515,426,080+ people booger mining 5 times each day!
:o

NO MORE BOOGERS!!! :dead::Kaleun_Sick:

Fun fact:
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year

[Platapus]

Christian Bale reportedly studied Tom Cruise’s mannerisms to prepare for his role as a serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

[Platapus]

1 booger equals 20 calories, 5 mg of sodium, 3 g of protein, 5% vitamin C, and 25% iron.


According to an interview with CTV-News Saskatoon, Napper says that eating boogers exposes the body to mucus that has trapped bacteria. In theory, the body could build up an immunity to the bacteria in this mucus and then be more equipped to fight against future illness-causing bacteria


https://www.healthline.com/health/eating-boogers


:D

[Buddahaid]

For a long healthy life, eat your boogers at least five times a day, in times of drought, cut back to three....

[Jimbuna]

Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

[Texas Red]

A single sneeze travels 100 miles per hour and shoots 100,000 germs into the air.

[Platapus]

Gene Autry is the only person to be awarded stars in all five categories on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (film, television, music, radio, and live performance).

[Jimbuna]

There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.

[Platapus]

There are 11 U.S. states have land farther south than the most northern point of Mexico.

[Jimbuna]

Most collect calls are made on father's day.

[Platapus]

The term “soccer” does not originate in America. The word is from Britain, where it was derived from a short form of “Association Football.”

[Jimbuna]

A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

[Jeff-Groves]

The huddle in American Football was introduced back in the 1890s by Paul Hubbard, who was a deaf player that used hand signals to call plays. Bringing the team together surrounding the quarterback was an approach used to prevent competitors from seeing the signals.

[Jimbuna]

It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

[Platapus]

Defeated only once in roughly 300 matches, President Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall Of Fame in 1992.

[Jeff-Groves]

President Abraham Lincoln never wrestled Mick Foley.
:haha:

[Platapus]

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. It is comparable in size to China or the United States.

[Jeff-Groves]

The Sahara Desert has petrified trees that date back millions of years.
Having walked amongst them? I'm confident I walked near some really old trees!

[Jeff-Groves]

In October 2002. The Beltway sniper attacks started near DC.
Not stated openly ever was that the FBI and other agencies checked on ALL Sniper trained persons with past military training.
Ask me how I know that!

[Aktungbby]

Alaska is the only state with the spelling letters on a single row of the keyboard!

[Sean C]

In October 2002. The Beltway sniper attacks started near DC.


I was there when that was going on. It was crazy. People would pull up to a gas pump and duck walk to their gas cap and then right back into the car.


One time, I parked my motorcycle at the edge of a large gas station lot to get something out of my backpack. Everyone stopped to see what I was doing.


It was surreal.

[Platapus]

Watch out where those penguins go...


It is estimated that nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers contains penguin urine.

[Jimbuna]

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

[Aktungbby]

Snails, tortoises, salamanders, crocodiles, Malagay red-tailed dwarf lemurs & Eastt African hedgehogs all estivate. Alligators, on the other hand, tend to hibernate.https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/180109_abc_social_gator_ice_4x5_992.jpg

[Jimbuna]

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

[Jimbuna]

An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall.

[Platapus]

Camelids are the only ungulates to mate in a sitting position.

[Jimbuna]

Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.

[Platapus]

The first tiger shark to hatch inside of its mother’s womb eats all the other embryos of its siblings. Even scientists admit that this is an unusual mode of survival.

[Jimbuna]

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

[Platapus]

The Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia is the world’s deepest hole. It is 7.5 miles deep, but interestingly, only 9 inches wide.

[Jimbuna]

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

[Platapus]

King Henry VIII had a “Groom of the Stool”, whose job was to monitor and assist in the King’s bowel movements. The role remained in existence until King Edward VII abolished it in 1901.




"Wipers!" (clap clap)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ5rbPlsdHw

[Platapus]

Prior to 1964, artists could purchase a paint called 'Mummy Brown" which contained ground material from mummies.

[Jimbuna]

Only female mosquito’s' bite and most are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.

[Platapus]

With an average height of about 13,000 feet and stretching for 4,300 miles, the Andes Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

[Platapus]

The word “orange” was first used to describe the fruit, not the color.

[Jimbuna]

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

[Platapus]

In 1916, Jeanette Rankin became the first female member of Congress in America, four years before women were given the right to vote.

[Platapus]

California is the closest state to Hawaii, but Hawaii is the furthest state from California.

[Jimbuna]

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

[Platapus]

Brazil’s northernmost point is closer to Canada than it is to its own southernmost point.

[Jimbuna]

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

[Jeff-Groves]

Hamida Djandoubi's death marked the final occasion that the guillotine would ever be employed as an execution method by any government in the world.

[Platapus]

New York’s Coney Island became a peninsula in the 1930s due to land reclamation.

[Platapus]

If you’re in the continental United States, you are never more than 135 miles from a McDonald’s.

[Jimbuna]

In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

[Platapus]

The state of Wyoming only has two sets of escalators.

[Jeff-Groves]

Annie Oakley was born in Ohio.

[Jeff-Groves]

Almost half of the state of Wyoming (48%) is owned by the US government.
And We worry about area 51!
:o

[Platapus]

Thimphu in Bhutan and Ngerulmud in Palau are the only two world capitals that do not have any traffic lights.

[Aktungbby]

^ What a capital idea!:arrgh!:

[Rockstar]

During the Korean War, 'Operation Moolah' was conducted to entice a Soviet, Chinese or North Korean pilot to defect with a MiG-15 fighter jet,

[Platapus]

Despite only having a population of around 7.5 million, Papua New Guinea is home to over 800 distinct languages.

[mapuc]

Thimphu in Bhutan and Ngerulmud in Palau are the only two world capitals that do not have any traffic lights.

The Swedish town my Cousin lived in until some years ago, does not have traffic lights either. It's Landskrona in south Sweden. Since 8-10 year back all traffic lights have been replaced with roundabouts.

Markus

[Jeff-Groves]

^That is a useless fact.
:03:

[Rockstar]

The Swedish town my Cousin lived in until some years ago, does not have traffic lights either. It's Landskrona in south Sweden. Since 8-10 year back all traffic lights have been replaced with roundabouts.

Markus


You should get the 2021 G.O.A.T. Useless Fact award or something for that one. :salute:

[Jimbuna]

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

[Jeff-Groves]

You are more likely to be killed by a flying Champagne cork than to be killed by a poisonous spider.

[Buddahaid]

I guess that depends a lot on where you live. I doubt Amazon jungle Indians drink much champagne.

[Aktungbby]

I guess that depends a lot on where you live. I doubt Amazon jungle Indians drink much champagne.they call it Arachnepagne along the upper Orinoco!:O:

[Texas Red]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIZw3hWlO9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2mLOVHZ2u4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDcfrpbNorw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2ftqfYk_s

[Jimbuna]

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

[Platapus]

Australia is wider than the Moon's diameter

[Jimbuna]

The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

[Catfish]

The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
Where did you get this :hmmm:


Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
You can also only visit McDonalds to eat, you will get fat but you will also starve and die because lots of trace elements are absent.

[Moonlight]

Where ever Jimbuna got it from does not mean that it isn't true, Dr. Robert Klapper, orthopaedic surgeon and co-director of the Joint Replacement Program, explains what actually happens when you hear your joints snap, crack, and pop.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/ask-a-doc-is-knuckle-cracking-bad.html#:~:text=What's%20cracking&text=crack%2C%20and%20pop.-,%22The%20noise%20of%20cracking%20or%20popping%20i n%20our%20joints%20is,friction%20and%20preserving% 20our%20cartilage.

[mapuc]

Are you tired of spam?
The word for the unwanted item comes from the food of the same name, which was especially prevalent during World War II.
Spam was produced by swine shoulders mixed with e.g ham, potato starch, salt and sugar and was used by the US Army as a cheap meal.
When the cans were sent to Europe as part of auxiliary packages, they, like the unwanted spam in the inbox, could not be bypassed, and eventually became unpopular.

Markus

[Jeff-Groves]

SPAM has become part of Hawaiian culture.
Why else would 25,000 people show up for the annual Waikiki Spam Jam, a crazy celebration of the canned meat that has been popular in Hawaii for so many decades?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcY3W5WgNU&t=15s

[Platapus]

Maryland has no natural lakes.

[Jeff-Groves]

Ohio’s flag is the only non-rectangular U.S. state flag.
The large letter O suggests the buckeye that gives Ohio its nickname.

[Aktungbby]

SPAM has become part of Hawaiian culture.
Why else would 25,000 people show up for the annual Waikiki Spam Jam, a crazy celebration of the canned meat that has been popular in Hawaii for so many decades?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcY3W5WgNU&t=15sThat's (Austin)"Minnestoa Nice"!!:Kaleun_Salivating:

[Jimbuna]

Where did you get this :hmmm:



Where ever Jimbuna got it from does not mean that it isn't true, Dr. Robert Klapper, orthopaedic surgeon and co-director of the Joint Replacement Program, explains what actually happens when you hear your joints snap, crack, and pop.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/ask-a-doc-is-knuckle-cracking-bad.html#:~:text=What's%20cracking&text=crack%2C%20and%20pop.-,%22The%20noise%20of%20cracking%20or%20popping%20i n%20our%20joints%20is,friction%20and%20preserving% 20our%20cartilage.

:smug::O: