useless facts

[Jimbuna]

A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

[Aktungbby]

A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway." She's a a bitch!:D

[Texas Red]

Every 60 seconds in America, a minute passes

[Buddahaid]

That must be why the pedestrian crossing signs are running.

[Platapus]

The Great Lakes contain enough fresh water to flood an area the size of Great Britain in over 100 meters of water.


So you Brits better watch it!

[Platapus]

France’s longest border is with Brazil.

[Texas Red]

Birthdays are good for your health. Studies have shown that people who have more birthdays live the longest.

The Great Lakes contain enough fresh water to flood an area the size of Great Britain in over 100 meters of water.


So you Brits better watch it!

We kicked 'em out once and we'll do it again (if we have too)

[Moonlight]

The Great Lakes contain enough fresh water to flood an area the size of Great Britain in over 100 meters of water.
So you Brits better watch it!

We kicked 'em out once and we'll do it again (if we have too)

Hey Platapus, what ya going to do, wash us to death? :haha:

El Whacko, you lot weren't so feisty when we Brits burnt the White House down were you, your President ran away like a whipped cur. :O:

On August 24, 1814, as the War of 1812 raged on, invading British troops marched into Washington and set fire to the U.S. Capitol, the President's Mansion, and other local landmarks. The ensuing fire reduced all but one of the capital city's major public buildings to smoking rubble, and only a torrential rainstorm saved the Capitol from complete destruction.

Next time we'll come in the dry season. :haha:

[Jimbuna]

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

[mapuc]

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

Does this mean you burn more calories if you fall asleep in front of the TV ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Twice as many :03:

[Texas Red]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7BNK7VVUAA3wX9.jpg

[Jeff-Groves]

Dad told me tonight I might be related to Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr.
:o

[Jimbuna]

Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

[Platapus]

Maine is the closest point in the US to Africa.

[Platapus]

Lasting only 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is generally considered to be the shortest war in history.

[Jimbuna]

It's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.

[Jeff-Groves]

In Ohio, It is illegal to fish for whales on Sunday.
:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

[Platapus]

Bubble Wrap was originally intended to be used as 3D wallpaper for insulation.

[Platapus]

Due to a discrepancy over border recognition between Egypt and Sudan, there is a region in Africa called Bir Tawil that belongs to no country.

[Jimbuna]

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

[Platapus]

At 3’7″, Eddie Gaedel was the smallest Major League Baseball player of all time.

[Platapus]

Serial killer Ted Bundy once received a commendation from the Seattle Police Department for chasing down a purse snatcher.

[Jeff-Groves]

There is a series of islands in the Atlantic that the United States claims are part of Maine and Canada claims are part of New Brunswick.
Canada, assuming the islands are hers built a lighthouse on one of them,
and the United States, assuming the islands are hers,
pretends the lighthouse doesn’t exist.
:o

[Jimbuna]

It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.

[Platapus]

Americans consume around 150 million hot dogs on 4th of July each year.

[Rockstar]

Space travels faster than the speed of light.

[Catfish]

Space travels faster than the speed of light.
Related to what? :03:

[Sean C]

It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.


This is a somewhat misleading statement, IMHO. We use 100%, but only 10% at a time (on average).

[Jimbuna]

Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.

[mapuc]

This is a somewhat misleading statement, IMHO. We use 100%, but only 10% at a time (on average).

In a way you are both correct.

Imagine our brain as it was a Harddisc. The harddisc has a capacity of 1 TB, but you have only 10 GB on it...But these 10 GB is saved all over the harddisc and not at one place on the Harddisc.

Watch the movie Lucy.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

For some time Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face, explaining: "It does not matter, my audience sees only my right side."

[Platapus]

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth.

[Jimbuna]

70% of all boats sold are used for fishing.

[Platapus]

Lord Byron allegedly kept a pet bear in his dorm room while studying at Cambridge University.

[Jimbuna]

You were born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult you will only have 206.

[Platapus]

The first dog to have a leading role in a movie was Jean, a female Collie. She was also known as the Vitagraph Dog. Her first movie was in 1909.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jean-Vitagraph-Portrait-1911.jpg/220px-Jean-Vitagraph-Portrait-1911.jpg

[Jimbuna]

If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

[Mr Quatro]

I've said this word for most of my life without really understanding why I said it, except I thought it meant that everything had gone bad, was here no more, gone period. :yep:

Now I have a new perceptive of the word kapoop, kapoopy, kapoopie

kapoop
To take a explosive crap.


Translations for kapoop
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
· كابوبArabic
· kapoopCzech
· kapoopDanish
· KapaunGerman
· καπόπGreek
· kapoopEsperanto
· kapoopSpanish
· کاپوپPersian
· kapoopFinnish
· kapoopFrench
· kapoopIrish
· कपूपHindi
· kapoopHungarian
· կապոոպArmenian
· kapoopIndonesian
· kapoopItalian
· kapoopHebrew
· kapoopJapanese
· ಕಪೂಪ್Kannada
· KapoopKorean
· kapoopLatin
· kapoopDutch
· kapoopNorwegian
· kapoopPolish
· kapoopPortuguese
· kapoopRomanian
· kapoopRussian
· kapoopSwedish
· கபூப்Tamil
· కపూప్Telugu
· kapoopThai
· kapoopTurkish
· капупUkrainian
· kapoopUrdu
· kapoopVietnamese
· kapoopYiddish
· 木瓜Chinese

[Aktungbby]

/\ my proctologist says this is not useless information!:O:...and,...in the end, we all speak a common language.:hmmm:

[mapuc]

In the future the astronaut may be eating their own faeces, who should taste like Marmite after have gone through a microbiological process.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Soylent Brown??!!:Kaleun_Sick:

[Jimbuna]

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

[Jeff-Groves]

The first person ever to ride over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel was a 43-year-old female schoolteacher.

Although it's not been proven?
She may hold the record for the most times saying
"Oh ****!" in the limited time falling.

[Jeff-Groves]

In 1903, Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper.

It's rumored Mary earned money baby sitting one Winfred (nicknamed Wind) Shields in her early days.

[Sean C]

In the future the astronaut may be eating ...


There are some facts which are not only useless, but better off unknown.

[Jimbuna]

The strongest muscle (Relative to size) in the body is the tongue.

[Platapus]

The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.

[Platapus]

In the 1969 Akdov Telmig started making some soft and hardcore pornographic movies.



The name was a pseudonym, (extra points if can figure it out)


The director is probably better known by his real name of Ed Wood Jr.

[Jeff-Groves]

Vodka Gimlet
You could have made it harder if you'd have used Akdon Telmig.

[Jimbuna]

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

[Mr Quatro]

Vodka Gimlet
You could have made it harder if you'd have used Akdon Telmig.

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/185120095_1094398271045540_7284106151539753837_n.j pg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=ad2b24&_nc_ohc=yLZiyomNi4gAX_pZkFF&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=39a743325fa490c446e515869cbeb572&oe=60C52046

[Jeff-Groves]

Seeing I'll be in Wyoming the end of June?
I'll have to get some of that.
:haha:

[Jimbuna]

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

[Platapus]

Vodka Gimlet
You could have made it harder if you'd have used Akdon Telmig.


Well I had to use the name he actually used or it would not have been fair.

[Platapus]

Canada has more lakes than anywhere in the world. 9% of the country is covered in fresh water.

[Jimbuna]

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

[Platapus]

President Richard Nixon was at Disney World when he infamously proclaimed, “I am not a crook.”

[Jimbuna]

In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. It was estimated to save the nation about 300,000 barrels of oil each year by adding most of the month April to D.S.T.

[Platapus]

A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance”.

[Jimbuna]

The thumbnail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

[Platapus]

The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) had to change their name to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) because of legal action taken by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

[Jimbuna]

The Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing.

[Platapus]

The Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing.


Not sure that is correct about the human eye

[Platapus]

According to John Lennon, the imagery in the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was inspired by the work of Lewis Carroll.

[Catfish]

No country or region can be self-sustaining today, without falling back in the middle ages.
Useless fact because no one realises this and nationalism is on the rise.

[Jimbuna]

Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

[Texas Red]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ac/6c/ac/ac6caca84a7ce336a5068007b3806731.jpg

[Armistead]

The Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing.

Babies are born with eyes about 16.5 millimeters in length. People's eyes stop growing in length by the age of 20 or 21, when they reach about 24 millimeters.

[Jimbuna]

If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.

[Platapus]

The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) had to change their name to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) because of legal action taken by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

[Sean C]

You posted that two days ago. :O:

[Buddahaid]

If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.

That was supposed to be California last I looked. Better look again.:hmmm:

2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

[Jimbuna]

That was supposed to be California last I looked. Better look again.:hmmm:

2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

:oops:

[mapuc]

< Don't take it so hard, you just posted some Useless Facts

Markus

[Platapus]

According to John Lennon, the imagery in the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was inspired by the work of Lewis Carroll.

[Texas Red]

I kissed the niece of baseball pitcher Jeff Samardzija :doh::yep:

[Jimbuna]

There are 1 million ants for every human in the world.

[Reece]

I've killed much much more than that where we live!! :up::timeout:

[Jimbuna]

Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending Machine's falling on them. 13 people are killed annually. All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 people have been injured.

[Platapus]

Looking for a secret lair?


There are more than 7,000 different Caribbean islands, but only about 2% of them are inhabited.

[Jimbuna]

The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes per year and is hit by Lightning 100 times a second.

[Texas Red]

When Shakespeare was alive, when someone rolled their eyes at somebody it meant they were attracted to them.

[Platapus]

It’s been estimated that a new baby can rob parents of anywhere between 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year.

[Jeff-Groves]

The United Nations body that develops meat-quality standards and helps facilitate international trade lists “rectum” as an acceptable “edible meat co-product.”

:o

Now you know why some things taste like ass!

[Jeff-Groves]

If you’ve eaten strawberry, raspberry, or vanilla ice cream, the cold, sugary mass melting in your mouth might have been part beaver anal gland secretion, as reported by Organics.org

Guess I got to fess up to the Wife that I've been enjoying beaver secretions other then hers!
:har:

[Jimbuna]

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

[Platapus]

Whatcom County in the state of Washington unanimously passed a resolution declaring the region a Sasquatch Protection and Refuge Area.

[Texas Red]

The color orange is actually named after the fruit

[Platapus]

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only moon known to have a fully developed atmosphere. In fact, it is about 50% denser than Earth’s.

[Jimbuna]

On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

[Von Due]

The former dictator of Turkemenistan forbade all cars that were not white.

[Platapus]

Since 1945, all British tanks have come equipped with tea making facilities.

[Sean C]

Ah, yes. The "BV" (boiling vessel). Useful for much more than just making tea and standard equipment on almost all British armored fighting vehicles. Nice.

[Texas Red]

It is 87 degrees today where I live

[Jimbuna]

During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building sways several feet to either side.

[Platapus]

During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building sways several feet to either side.


:nope:


The Willis Tower (nee Sears Tower), built in the 1970's, is designed to withstand a 3 foot sway, but rarely sways more than 6 inches


The Empire State Building was built a lot less flexible than more modern towers. The Empire State Building sways under 2 inches, even in 100+mph wind.



My useless fact


The Willis Tower is not straight. It was constructed with a 4 inch permanent lean to the west. This was not originally planned but a byproduct of the slightly asymmetrical construction of the tower.

[Texas Red]

:nope:


The Willis Tower (nee Sears Tower), built in the 1970's, is designed to withstand a 3 foot sway, but rarely sways more than 6 inches


The Empire State Building was built a lot less flexible than more modern towers. The Empire State Building sways under 2 inches, even in 100+mph wind.



My useless fact


The Willis Tower is not straight. It was constructed with a 4 inch permanent lean to the west. This was not originally planned but a byproduct of the slightly asymmetrical construction of the tower.

That’s interesting! That’s amazing to know since I live so close to the Willis Tower

[Sean C]

Sea turtles can hold their breath for up to seven hours.

[Texas Red]

Sea turtles have been around for nearly 110 million years.

[Jimbuna]

In the last 3,500 years, there have been approximately 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

[AVGWarhawk]

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

[Jimbuna]

400-quarter pounders can be made from 1 cow.

[Mr Quatro]

The Planet Pluto has Not made One Full Orbit of the Sun- since it was Discovered 91 years ago :o

[Aktungbby]

In the last 3,500 years, there have been approximately 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world..06% ain't shabby!?? Plus, as a history jock, it makes for great reading!:O::rock::nope::dead:

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.His or hers?:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

A full-loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop.

[Platapus]

With a fortune of $336 billion when adjusted for inflation, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller is the wealthiest person in U.S. history.

[Jimbuna]

Coca-Cola was originally green.

[Rockstar]

There are 4.09 million miles of roadways in the U.S. 35% percent of which are unpaved.

[Platapus]

Liberty Island, the home of the Statue of Liberty, might belong to New York City, but it is surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, and is actually closer to the New Jersey mainland.

[Rockstar]

The standard wood board commonly known as a 2"x4". Actually measures only 1-1/2"x3-1/2". A 34 percent reduction in actual volume; as those in the trade would say, it’s “selling air.”

[Texas Red]

The first man to survive going over the Niagara Falls later died by slipping on an orange peel.

[Aktungbby]

Coca-Cola was originally green. That appears to be untrue. Coca Cola came in green bottles but has been brown since 1886. The original recipe has always used caramel causing the brown color. :hmmm:

[Texas Red]

That appears to be untrue. Coca Cola came in green bottles but has been brown since 1886. The original recipe has always used caramel causing the brown color. :hmmm:

Wait a minute, isn't the coca-cola recipe locked in a safe? Or am I confusing it with Pepsi?

[Sean C]

There is an invisible wire around most of Manhattan which allows Jews to carry things on Saturday.

[Mr Quatro]

There is an invisible wire around most of Manhattan which allows Jews to carry things on Saturday.

This is not the joke thread Sean :D

[Jimbuna]

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

[Rockstar]

The Payen PA-22/122 was the first experimental delta winged fighter aircraft.

[Mr Quatro]

The Payen PA-22/122 was the first experimental delta winged fighter aircraft.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T9egienxNe4/maxresdefault.jpg

[Texas Red]

It is currently 67 and sunny where I live.

[Jimbuna]

WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, he went through "the whole 9 yards", hence the term.

[Platapus]

WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, he went through "the whole 9 yards", hence the term.




That's pretty interesting considering that this phrase's first idiomatic use was in 1907. :D



The whole nine yards is an example of idiomatic phrase that add odd or funny words to the end of the phrase "the whole..."


The whole ball of wax
The whole enchilada
The whole shooting match

The whole shebang
The whole hog
...


Are all examples.



In some parts of the country the expression was, in the early 20th century, "The whole six yards" so go figure. :doh:


As for aircraft ammo belts.....



While there may have been a belt of .50 cal that was "nine yards" it was hardly standardized. Different aircraft had different belts and sometimes each gun position had a different ammo belt. Depending on the mission different lengths of belts could be loaded on the same model of aircraft.



A common mistake in etymology is assuming that language, especially idioms, have to make sense. They don't.

[Platapus]

At just 135 words, George Washington’s second inaugural address remains the shortest ever delivered.


Fellow Citizens:
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people of united America.

Previous to the execution of any official act of the President, the constitution requires an oath of office. This oath I am now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violated willingly or knowingly the injunctions thereof, I may (besides incurring constitutional punishment) be subject to the upbraidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony.I guess sore gums makes for a short speech. :D

[Sean C]

This is not the joke thread Sean :D


It's true. Google it.

[Aktungbby]

Oi ve! those poor people in Brooklyn ,Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx!:wah: I actually knew this but I'm long gone from 'the
Big Apple" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eruv-manhattan-invisible-wire-jewish-symbolic-religious-home ....drives the 20-mile length of a nearly invisible series of wires that surrounds most of the borough. He starts at 126th Street in Harlem and drives down, hugging the Hudson River most of the way, to Battery Park and back up along the East River, marking in a small notebook where he notices breaks in the line. Known as an eruv, the wire is a symbolic boundary that allows observant Jews to carry out a range of ordinary activities otherwise forbidden on the Shabbat. see eruv map below: https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/46837/image.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

[Rockstar]

The Kola super deep bore hole is the deepest hole, eva'

[Jimbuna]

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

[Rockstar]

When the The James Webb telescope is sent into space. It will orbit around the sun at what's known as the 2nd Lagrange Point

[Moonlight]

Well, now you've told us that old boy you could at least tell us what the 1st Lagrange Point is, it would be another great useless fact to know, over to you Rockstar. :O:

[Mr Quatro]

It's true. Google it.

Sorry it seemed so out of place, but Aktung knew it too so I guess it's true.

My bad :yep:

[Rockstar]

Well, now you've told us that old boy you could at least tell us what the 1st Lagrange Point is, it would be another great useless fact to know, over to you Rockstar. :O:


And here I thought everyone knew what L2 was.


L2 is short-hand for the second Lagrange Point, a wonderful accident of gravity and orbital mechanics, and the perfect place to park the Webb telescope in space. There are five so-called "Lagrange Points" - areas where gravity from the sun and Earth balance the orbital motion of a satellite. Putting a spacecraft at any of these points allows it to stay in a fixed position relative to the Earth and sun with a minimal amount of energy needed for course correction.

The term L2 may sound futuristic and mysterious, but the name actually honors a Mathematician born in 1736. The Lagrange points were named after the Italian-born mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange, who made important contributions to classical and celestial mechanics. Lagrange studied the "three-body problem" (so-called because three bodies are orbiting each other) for the Earth, sun, and moon in 1764, and by 1772 he had found the solution; there are five stable points at which you could put an object and have it stay fixed in place relative to the other two.

In the case of L2, this happens about 930,000 miles away from the Earth in the exact opposite direction from the sun. The Earth, as we know, orbits the sun once every year. Normally, an object almost a million miles farther out from the sun should move more slowly, taking more than a year to complete its orbit around the sun. However, at L2, exactly lined up with both the sun and Earth, the added gravity of the two large bodies pulling in the same direction gives a spacecraft an extra boost of energy, locking it into perfect unison with the Earth's yearly orbit. The Webb telescope will be placed slightly off the true balance point, in a gentle orbit around L2.

[Jimbuna]

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

[Moonlight]

That's an excellent summary of the second Lagrange Point Rockstar, it deserves an A+. :yeah:

[Platapus]

The medical term for a gurgling stomach is “borborygmus”.

[Sean C]

La Grange is a song by the band ZZ Top about the "best little whorehouse in Texas".

[Jimbuna]

Firehouses have circular stairways originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

[Jimbuna]

Statues in parks: If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

[Jimbuna]

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

[Jimbuna]

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

[Jimbuna]

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

[Jimbuna]

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

[Texas Red]

The same person oversaw both the Manhattan Project and the Pentagon’s construction.

[mapuc]

During the Great Depression, American farmers came together to help their neighbors. If a farm was put up for foreclosure, neighbors showed up and threatened potential buyers. Then they bought the farm and the equipment themselves for almost nothing (few cents) and then gave the property back to the owner.

Markus

[Platapus]

A snail can sleep for three years

[Texas Red]

During the Great Depression, American farmers came together to help their neighbors. If a farm was put up for foreclosure, neighbors showed up and threatened potential buyers. Then they bought the farm and the equipment themselves for almost nothing (few cents) and then gave the property back to the owner.

Markus
^ that’s how both sets of my great grandparents survived the depression. They were all farmers.

[Platapus]

The Cookie Monster has a real name. It’s Sid

[Jimbuna]

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

[Platapus]

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


:nope:



The QEII holds about a million gallons of diesel fuel. If she burned one gallon to move 6 inches, the range of the QEII would be under 100 miles.



With a million gallon tank and a range of about 8,000 miles, this equates to each gallon being able to move the QEII about 50 feet.



Still pretty fuel inefficient but not not as bad as 6 inches per gallon. :D

[Platapus]

Barry Manilow’s hit, “I Write the Songs”, wasn’t written by him.

[Jimbuna]

In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.

[Aktungbby]

In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.It must have been a capon! :O:

[Platapus]

In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.


So now we really know why the chicken crossed the road.


Horny naked French tarts.



How could I have missed the signs?

[Platapus]

Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands.

[Texas Red]

The sun is actually not the center of the solar system, as Jupiter’s gravitational pull moves the sun away from the center. Thus, the solar system rotates around the real middle called the “barycenter”

[Jimbuna]

Napoleon's penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000

[Jimbuna]

Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.

[Aktungbby]

Napoleon's penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000 After his death, an autopsy was conducted and Francesco Antommarchi, the doctor conducting the autopsy, cut his penis off, along with several other body parts. It is unclear whether the cut was intentional or accidental; Antommarchi may have been bribed to cut it off by Napoleon's chaplain as revenge for Napoleon calling him "impotent".[6]

The penis passed into the possession of Napoleon's chaplain, who smuggled it out of St. Helena to his home on Corsica. It remained in the priest's family until 1916[1][7] when Maggs Bros Ltd, a bookselling company based in London,[3] purchased it. In 1924 A. S. W. Rosenbach, a Philadelphia-based bookseller, purchased it.

The penis went on display in 1927 at New York City's Museum of French Art. A reviewer present at the exhibition from Time described it as similar to a "maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace." Others present considered it to look like a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel".[1] Rosenbach sold the item to a collector named Donald Hyde, whose wife gave it to John F. Fleming after Hyde's death. Fleming was a bookseller who had been close to Rosenbach. Another collector purchased it and attempted unsuccessfully to sell the penis at an auction through Christie's.[3] After the auction, James Comyn was reading an affidavit about Eric LeVine, a collector of items relating to Napoleon, and instead of calling the item a "penis" euphemistically referred to it as a "certain part". A urologist and artifact collector named John K. Lattimer purchased the item in 1977 for $3,000 (equivalent to $12,812 in 2020) and it is currently owned by his daughter. She has been offered at least $100,000 for it.

Characteristics
The preserved penis has been described as "barely recognizable as a human body part" and its authenticity is unclear. A documentary that aired on Channel 4, Dead Famous DNA, described it as "very small" and measured it to be 1.5 inches (3.8 cm). It is not known what size it was during Napoleon's lifetime. The item's current owner has allowed ten people to see it and it has never been recorded on camera. He wasn't called 'Ol Boney' fer nuthin' BBY!:O: No wonder he looks depressed:hmmm: > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/DelarocheNapoleon.jpg

[Rockstar]

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is carrying a postage stamp-size piece of fabric from one of the wings of the Wright brothers' Flyer 1.

[Platapus]

Stretching over 1,600 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest single structure made by living organisms.

[Jimbuna]

When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available.

[Platapus]

In 2009, Scottish scientists searching for the Loch Ness Monster found over 100,000 golf balls instead.

[Jimbuna]

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

[Rockstar]

Only three performers have sold 100 million albums both as solo artists and as part of a group. Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins. Because of changes in the music business, there may never be others.

[Jimbuna]

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

[Platapus]

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.


Azerbaijan: Hold my Sherbet

[Platapus]

Saint Patrick may not have banished any snakes from Ireland. Scientists believe the island has been snake-free since the Ice Age.

[Jimbuna]

The following sentence: 'A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.' Contains the nine different pronunciations of "ough" in the English Language.

[Platapus]

When spliced together, there are 26 minutes of quiet staring in the Twilight film series.

[Texas Red]

The star Betelgeuse is expected to go supernova in the next 600 years, or it may have already gone supernova but the light hasn’t reached us yet.

[Jimbuna]

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

[Platapus]

There’s a village in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over every winter.

[Von Due]

There’s a village in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over every winter.

Welcome to Hell
https://live.staticflickr.com/918/41537703220_d66ee9d820_b.jpg

[Jimbuna]

There’s a village in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over every winter.

There is also a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

[Platapus]

Koalas and humans have remarkably similar fingerprints.

[Rockstar]

If you plummeted into a black hole, your body would be ripped apart through “spaghettification" long before you ever came close to reaching the singularity.

[Jimbuna]

The shape of plant collenchyma’s cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

[Texas Red]

If you plummeted into a black hole, your body would be ripped apart through “spaghettification" long before you ever came close to reaching the singularity.

Actually, if you were to fall into a supermassive black hole, you might have a chance of reaching the singularity because spaghettification doesn’t occur as far away as it does with stellar or intermediate sized black holes . This is because in a supermassive black hole, the gravity is so strong that it is pulling on both your head and your feet with the same strength. But in stellar and intermediate sized black holes, the gravity pulling on your feet is much more stronger than that on your head, which is why you won’t even come close to the event horizon or the accretion disc if there was one.

https://youtu.be/lwe5KTdzSHg

[Catfish]

Larry Niven's "Neutron Star" is a good exercise in getting close to a massive gravity well :03:

[mapuc]

< There was a serie on N.G named Aftermath and one of these documentary was called something with Neutron star.(and I can't find it)

The storyline is that The Astronomers finds a run-away neutron star and it's heading this way-it will pass earth within xx million miles in 75 years from detection.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

[Texas Red]

I woke up at 0530 this morning

[Jimbuna]

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

[Platapus]

At 4,101 feet, Mt. Thor on Baffin Island, Canada, has Earth’s greatest sheer vertical drop.

[Jimbuna]

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

[Platapus]

Tootsie Rolls were used as part of the rations for World War II soldiers.

[Rockstar]

Tootsie Rolls were used as part of the rations for World War II soldiers.


My mom put them in my Rat Patrol school lunch box too :D

[Mr Quatro]

Tootsie Rolls were used as part of the rations for World War II soldiers.

I didn't know that :D

[Mr Quatro]

Google says YouTube generated $15 billion last year and contributed roughly 10 percent to all Google revenue.
Those figures make YouTube's ad business nearly one fifth the size of Facebook's, and more than six times larger
than all of Amazon-owned Twitch.

How much profit does YouTube make a year?

YouTube revenue

2017 $8.1 billion
2018 $11.1 billion
2019 $15.1 billion
2020 $19.7 billion

[Sean C]

My mom put them in my Rat Patrol school lunch box too :D

I probably also got a few in my Dukes of Hazzard lunch box (which I still have - including Thermos™). Before that, I was using my granddaddy's old work lunchbox. One day, I told my mom that the "sparkly tea" she made me was neat.

She asked me what I meant by "sparkly". I said it had something like glitter in it. Upon inspection, she realized that the glass insulating liner in the vacuum flask had shattered and shards of very thin glass were floating in the tea.:timeout:

I said I felt fine. And AFAIK - if I did ingest some glass shards - I've experienced no ill effects ... thankfully.

Useless fact: Tin/aluminum Dukes of Hazzard lunch boxes (including Thermos™) aren't worth very much on eBay.

[Jimbuna]

The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.

[Mr Quatro]

Not really useless, but unusual in that back in the late 1950's it was revealed that a woman's voice was more likely to gain the attention of young men in distracting situations.

Nortronics Division of Northrop Corporation selected actress and singer Joan Elms to record the automated voice warnings on the B-58 Hustler.

To those flying the B-58, the voice was known as "Sexy Sally."

[Texas Red]

I ran track from late March to late May

[mapuc]

I woke at 12.30 if I'm allowed, then this is the time when I'm being awakened

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

[Mr Quatro]

I ran track from late March to late May

Can we use El Whacko as an example of useless facts? :haha:

[Platapus]

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)


:nope:


Not according to Don McLean


Don McLean himself said in 1999: “The growing urban legend that ‘American Pie’ was the name of Buddy Holly’s plane the night it crashed, killing him, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, is equally untrue. I created the term.” http://web.archive.org/web/20021201144702/www.don-mclean.com/

[Platapus]

A pluot is a hybrid between a plum and an apricot.

[Jimbuna]

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

[Platapus]

Aulophobia is an exaggerated or irrational fear of flutes.

[Jimbuna]

Golf courses cover 4% of North America.

[Platapus]

In the last row of the U.S. Senate Chamber, there is a desk that is always stocked with candy

[Sean C]

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.


I suppose that is why the "King of Diamonds" always appears to be looking over his shoulder. :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Until 1994, world maps and globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.

[Platapus]

Wanna get away from people...



With a population of 37,308 and an area less than 1 square mile, Monaco is the most densely populated nation in the world.

[Jimbuna]

The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space.

[Moonlight]

^I wonder who started that myth?.

Artificial structures visible from Earth orbit without magnification include highways, dams, and cities. The Great Wall of China, often cited as the only human-made structure visible from space, is not visible from low Earth orbit without magnification, and even then can be seen only under perfect conditions.

[Platapus]

The suffix -stan is Persian for “place of” or “country”, which explains why so many countries end with it.

[Jimbuna]

A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times.

[Jimbuna]

The most common name in world is Mohammed.

[Moonlight]

^That just shows you their mindset, they have no bloody imagination. :doh:

[Aktungbby]

The most common name in world is Mohammed.:nope: The most common name in the world is Wang, meaning king, and is the last name of an estimated 92.8 million people on China’s mainland. The most common first name is Maria, a Latin name that translates to Mary in English, and could have originated from the Egyptian word Meriam meaning beloved....Incl. my moniker for essential beloved portions of my anatomy!:hmmm: :doh::O::()1:

[mapuc]

It ain't called useless facts for nothing, you know.

Markus

[Mr Quatro]

:nope: ...Incl. my moniker for essential beloved portions of my anatomy!:hmmm: :doh::O::()1:

It ain't called useless facts for nothing, you know.

Markus


Actually Markus Aktung has given us a useful insight into his persona :D


Self-love synonyms

self-esteem

amour-propre

arrogance
The state or quality of being arrogant; overbearing pride.

narcissism
Sexual desire for one's own body.

self-will

self-knowledge

vanity

[Rockstar]

Though Albert Einstein is normally associated with his theories in special & general relativity. His only Nobel Prize was awarded for his work in quantum theory and the photoelectric effect.

[Jimbuna]

Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount Everest.

[mapuc]

Here's a little bizarre useless story

On July 2, 1951, Mary Reeser's landlord arrived at her door with a telegram. However, the door handle, which was made of metal, was unusually hot, so she became worried and therefore called the police. When they arrived, they found Reiser's earthly remains in a burned chair. Only her skull, vertebra and part of her left foot was left. Plastic items that stood some distance away were soft and had lost some of their shape, but otherwise the apartment was intact. It is believed that she lost a cigarette while sleeping, and then her body fat caused her to burn up like a candle, while the cement floor and the lack of other flammable effects nearby have limited the fire to her.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Most toilets flush in E flat.

[Texas Red]

1/6 adults in the Gen Z generation are part of the LGBTQ community

[Aktungbby]

Most toilets flush in E flat....but Coriolis effect in clockwise fashion...above the equator...per Ascher Shapiro!!:know:

[mapuc]

In 1896, an American railroad company decided to promote public transportation by having two 35-ton steam locomotives crash into each other in a major media stunt. Up to 40,000 people gathered at a small town in Texas, after which the two trains crashed into each other at 72 km / h. The collision was so extensive that pieces from the trains and the boiling water from the boilers swirled through the air, killing two people and injuring at least 20.

Markus

[Jeff-Groves]

Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount Everest.

:hmmm:

Being the mons pubis (or female specific mons venius) is larger on females then males.
I kind of know why the book was named Men are from Mars, Woman are from Venus.
But not sure it's named right.

[Sean C]

:hmmm:


https://i.imgur.com/X6v5N9j.jpg

[Jimbuna]

You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[Platapus]

The Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar region on Earth. Some weather stations in the Atacama have never received rain.

[Jimbuna]

The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001.

[Platapus]

In April, 1941, Juliana, a Great Dane, was awarded her first Blue Cross. She extinguished a small incendiary bomb.... By urinating on it.





https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/69690000/jpg/_69690633_60cb885a-38b6-4ceb-8b86-f0ac039815e6.jpg

[mapuc]

In 1938, the Finnish authorities introduced a cardboard box to combat high infant mortality.
The cardboard box contained various remedies such as clothes, diapers and a mattress for the baby's first months, while the cardboard box itself could be used as a bed for the newborn so that they would not have to sleep with his parents or older siblings.
Initially, the box was only reserved for low-income families, but from 1949 was offered to all pregnant women.
The only requirement to get the cardboard box was that the woman should go to the doctor or the health service before the fourth month of pregnancy.
To this day, Finnish women still get the choice between the cardboard box or a cash amount of approx. $ 160.
Most people choose the cardboard box and its contents, which have varied over the years, but today, among other things, consists of a blanket, a mattress, clothes, books, toys, hygiene products, thermometer, condoms and diapers.

Markus

[Platapus]

Little late for the condoms. :D
But seriously, that's a great idea!




There were female Gladiators in Ancient Rome! A female gladiator was called a Gladiatrix, or Gladiatrices. They were extremely rare, unlike their male counterparts.


And no, they did not fight each other in mud. :nope:

[Jimbuna]

It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

[Mr Quatro]

It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

Maybe for women while topless ... your going to have to come to California to prove that one Jim :D

[Jimbuna]

Maybe for women while topless ... your going to have to come to California to prove that one Jim :D

I'll be over on the next flight which will probably not be for a few month yet :03:

[Jimbuna]

If done perfectly, a rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

[Platapus]

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. In 1834, it was sold as a cure for an upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It wasn’t popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century!

[Jimbuna]

More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than any other movie ever made.

[Mr Quatro]

Today is 6-22-21 next year will be 6-22-22

but did you know that yesterday won't happen again for 1,000 years?

June 21 3,021 :o

[Texas Red]

That makes my head hurt :doh:
Please explain

[Rockstar]

Today is 6-22-21 next year will be 6-22-22

but did you know that yesterday won't happen again for 1,000 years?

June 21 3,021 :o


But everyday another year passes.

From 1 Jan 20 to 1 Jan 21 = 1 year
From 2 Jan 20 to 2 Jan 21 = 1 year
From 3 Jan 20 to 3 Jan 21 = 1 year


:o

[Texas Red]

oh crap, he's right


Everday passes a we loose a year, that means I have (xxx) more June 22nd's to live.

[Jimbuna]

The buzz from an electric razor in America plays in the key of B flat; Key of G in England.

[Platapus]

After his term, Washington opened a whiskey distillery. By 1799, Washington’s distillery was the largest in the country, producing 11,000 gallons of un-aged whiskey!

[Sean C]

Today is 6-22-21 next year will be 6-22-22

but did you know that yesterday won't happen again for 1,000 years?

June 21 3,021 :o


:hmmm: What about June 21, 2121 ... and June 21, 2221?



https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1157&pictureid=11961



https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/album.php?albumid=1157&pictureid=11961

[Mr Quatro]

:hmmm: What about June 21, 2121 ... and June 21, 2221?



https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1157&pictureid=11961



https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/album.php?albumid=1157&pictureid=11961

Deep thinkers like you, Rockstar and Platapus don't have as many memory problems as us normal people :D

[Jimbuna]

There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.

[Platapus]

President Zachary Taylor died from a cherry overdose! Zachary Taylor passed away after eating way too many cherries and drinking milk at a July 4 party in 1850. He died on July 9th from gastroenteritis. The acid in cherries along with the milk is believed to have caused this.

[Texas Red]

I wonder what getting high on Cherries and milk feels like, probably not very good but I am curious as to how he acted and what it felt like for him

[Jimbuna]

In the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.

[mapuc]

In this year's European Championship, there has been a lot of debate about the role of politics in football. But in yesterday's match between Portugal and France, there was actually a political connection which has not really been talked about.

Cristiano Ronaldo is named after Ronald Reagan. Portugal's all-time great star was born in 1985, about halfway through Reagan's presidency, and Ronaldo's father was such a big fan of the man that it simply had to be included in his son Cristiano's name.
However, it was not so much the politics that the father liked. Before he became a politician, Reagan was an actor - and it was the actor Ronald Reagan that Cristiano Ronaldo's father was a big fan of.

Markus

[Platapus]

The Bloody Mary wasn’t always called Bloody Mary! First, the popular brunch drink was actually called A Bucket Of Blood. After Bucket Of Blood, it transitioned to Red Snapper and, finally, settled on Bloody Mary.