useless facts

[Platapus]

Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock"was the first use of a rock and roll song in a Hollywood film. Blackboard Jungle 1955

[Jimbuna]

The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.

[Platapus]

Ukraine is the largest country entirely on the continent of Europe. Ukraine has a total area of 603,628 square km.



Putin just wants peace


A piece of the Ukraine, evidently. :o

[Jimbuna]

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

[Platapus]

Holes in Swiss cheese are carefully regulated by the USDA. Holes are not allowed to be larger than 3/8 of an inch

[mapuc]

In Spain, the Danish saint and king, Knud the Holy, is the saint for parking spaces.
His help can be invoked with a little prayer "San Canuto, San Canuto, que encuentre sitio en un minuto", which can be translated to "Sankt Knud, Sankt Knud, get me a parking space in a minute."
However, students celebrate him as the patron saint of cannabis smoking, the reason for the last "saint area" is that his name in Spanish, "Canuto", is a slang term for joint.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.

[Platapus]

Cheese takes up about 1/10 the volume of the milk it was made from


No whey!!

[Jimbuna]

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.

[Platapus]

There were no banks in the United States until after the Revolutionary War.

[Jimbuna]

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.

[Jimbuna]

Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.

[Jimbuna]

Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.

[Platapus]

Elizabeth Taylor was born with a genetic "defect". She had a double row of eyelashes, which incidentally added to the striking nature of her eyes.

[Jimbuna]

Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.

[Jeff-Groves]

I have the ability to cross one eye at a time!
I can do it with both the left and right eye!

[Aktungbby]

Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.I do everything in a figure 8 pattern; especially when humping !:o:yep::O: https://campbell66express.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/c66-covercropped.jpg https://www.freightwaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/artboard_1.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles (81 km) per hour.

[Jimbuna]

The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.

[Platapus]

Joe Walker was the first person to go into space twice.



He was also the first US civilian to go into space. :Kaleun_Salute:

[Jimbuna]

A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

[Aktungbby]

...or through the floorboards of any vehicle:oops::Kaleun_Sick:

[Platapus]

One milliliter and one cubic centimeter have the same volume.

[Jimbuna]

A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.

[Platapus]

-40F and -40C are the same temperature

[Jimbuna]

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day

[Jimbuna]

In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark

[Platapus]

Bunny derives from bun—which was an old English word for a squirrel, not a rabbit.

[Jimbuna]

Spain leads the world in cork production

[Platapus]

Nice derives from a Latin word, nescius, meaning “ignorant” or “not knowing”


So when people told me I was a nice guy.......:oops:

[Jimbuna]

An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver

[Platapus]

There are 18 mules on a 20 mule team. The other two are Wheelers and are almost always horses.

[Jimbuna]

There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game.

[Aktungbby]

There are 18 mules on a 20 mule team. The other two are Wheelers and are almost always horses. NOPE:http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/death_valley_sketches/picture_2.jpg https://blaknissan.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/archival-20-mule-team-2-wagons.jpg?w=500 20 mules; any way U look at it! the marshal wouldn't allow it https://i.redd.it/lefvqofkwblx.jpg https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=12435

[mapuc]

My last name is part of a German city and they have their own football team.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

[Platapus]

NOPE: 20 mules; any way U look at it! the marshal wouldn't allow it


Yup.


https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/twenty-mule-teams.htm


2 mules as part of the "Lead Team"
10 mules as part of the "Swing Team"
6 mules as part of the "Pointer Team"
2 Horses as part of the "Wheeler Team"


Each team was especially trained for their individual contribution to the whole team.


There have been some modern reenactments that may have used 20 mules, though.

[Jimbuna]

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

[Platapus]

Adult cats have 30 teeth, while kittens have 26

[Jimbuna]

A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef.

[Platapus]

Contrary to popular belief, a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold

[Jeff-Groves]

Contrary to popular belief, a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold
And that is why you should ALWAYS use Troy weight when talking about the Wife's weight!
:haha:

[Jimbuna]

The U.S. military operates 234 golf courses.

[Aktungbby]

They made a Gene Hackman movie about that!:03: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Bat_twenty_one_ver1.jpg Knowing that his current location is too dangerous for rescue aircraft, Hambleton devises a plan to reach safer territory. He plots a course to the river which is the boundary of the target area, then communicates his intended path to Clark in a code composed of various golf courses he knows well. This will allow the rescuers to keep track of his progress, making it easier for them to pick him up.

[Platapus]

The song "You made me love you (I didn't want to do it)" was the first song written for a movie where the focus was on a specific actor instead of the role the actor was playing in the movie.

[Jimbuna]

40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.

[Jeff-Groves]

The rate of preventable injury-related deaths occurring in or around the home has increased 272% since 1999.

So I'm moving to a Motel!
:o

[Jimbuna]

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

[Platapus]

Plutonic rock is formed when magma has cooled beneath the surface of the earth.

[Jimbuna]

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

[Platapus]

Regardless of what my wife says about me. Osmium is the densest element in the periodic table.

[Jimbuna]

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

[Platapus]

All water on earth arrived as ice on asteroids and comets from space.

[Jimbuna]

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

[Jimbuna]

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

[Aktungbby]

the Great Pyramid if Giza is made of 2,400,000 stone blocks, most weighing 2.5 tons apiece. It took 100,000 well fed beer swilling men 20 years to build and is the only original wonder of the(ancient) world still standing relatively intact...4761 years later :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

[Platapus]

Though their names may suggest otherwise, cuttlefish, starfish, and jellyfish aren’t actually fish. Generally-speaking, fishes must have skulls, gills, and fins. Surprisingly, though, not all fishes have proper spines.

[Jimbuna]

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

[Aktungbby]

Otherwise known academically as weighty tomes?!!:03:

[Platapus]

Llamas can hum.

Humming is one of the ways llamas communicate.

[Aktungbby]

/\ spitting is another means of a llama displaying displeasure or irritation...

[Jimbuna]

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

[Jimbuna]

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

[Aktungbby]

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. About Aktungbby
Biography: Ak Tung Amun They were plucky fellows!!??:O:https://64.media.tumblr.com/08ed656c728ff7d904bbafcd511fdc6c/tumblr_mxpm9alr351sckv85o1_500.jpg

[Von Due]

There are more days in a week than there are zeros in a million.

[Platapus]

Goat meat is the most consumed meat per capita worldwide

[Eisenwurst]

Tiffany's don't do breakfast.

[Jimbuna]

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

[Platapus]

No one knows how long a sloth will live in the wild.

[Aktungbby]

...probably longer if it takes it slow and easy!?.:D

[Jimbuna]

The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

[Aktungbby]

that puts a new slant on the ol' flyn'-carpet talehttps://c.tenor.com/L_PRxaRihlwAAAAC/flying-carpet-escape.gif

[Platapus]

Trees never die of old age

[Aktungbby]

nonsense! :Kaleun_Goofy: I've sunk my roots down deep here for decades and have personally selected old age as my modus disoperendi :yep:otherwise referred to in all the obituaries I scan daily to see who's suddenly missing :()1:as... natural causes! :o:doh::oops::dead: Accomplishing this in the face of fires, quakes, Covid, global warming and Vlad the Bastard nukin' me, will be the accomplishment of a lifetime fer sure.:yeah:

[Platapus]

Elephants have around 150,000 muscle units in their trunk.

[Jimbuna]

A snail can sleep for three years.

[Platapus]

The circular huddle in American Football was invented by Paul D. Hubbard, quarterback for the Gallaudet University football team in 1894. He was afraid that the opposing team, also from a deaf college would be intercepting his signals.



Happy Deaf Awareness Month

[Jimbuna]

The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

[mapuc]

It happens I look up on things written in this thread.

Here what it says about moon same volume as the Pacific.

The volume of the Pacific Ocean is 660,000,000 cubic meter
The volume of the Moon is 21,958,000,000 cubic meter

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

[Platapus]

The Latin phrase “e pluribus unum” which translates to “out of many, one” and which is one of the mottos of the United States of America, has roots in the writings of Virgil, the great Roman poet who lived from 70 to 19 BCE. It is actually from a recipe he wrote for pesto.

[Von Due]

It would take approximately a Graham's Number number of observable universes, as a minimum, to write all the digits in Graham's Number.

[Von Due]

Place Graham's Number in between zero and Tree(3) and Graham's Number roughly equals zero.

[Jimbuna]

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

[Aktungbby]

I've climbed a lot of those narrow steep 1 ft stairs incl. The Tower of London, Doone Castle,(MontyPython)Edinburgh Castle... and even Ft Point under the Golden Gate. The advantage to the defender was the downward stroke to an upcoming helmet or left pauldron from a higher step above enroute to the lordships' lofty boudoir in one of the towers. Going to bed in your castle, or mounting Civil War guard duty while reenacting in miserable Ft Point at 2AM on the 4th level top parapet in January is a frigid aerobic workout!

[Platapus]

Disney fired John Lasseter, in 1984, for pushing computer animation


He is now CEO of Pixar

[Jimbuna]

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

[Jeff-Groves]

It happens I look up on things written in this thread.

Here what it says about moon same volume as the Pacific.

The volume of the Pacific Ocean is 660,000,000 cubic meter
The volume of the Moon is 21,958,000,000 cubic meter

Markus
But IF the theory the Moon is hallow is true?
It could have a volume of 660,000,000 cubic meters!
:hmmm:

[Aktungbby]

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord. Well they're not paying room and board so they got the first part right! and they're working on the second
part> A COVID-19 outbreak at the N.H. State Prison has resulted in its first death, according to data released Wednesday by the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services.
A total of 184 inmates and 58 staff had tested positive at the Concord prison as of Wednesday, according to the state health department. A spokeswoman for the N.H. Department of Corrections did not immediately respond to a question about whether it was an inmate or employee who had died. Two people incarcerated in New Hampshire facilities have died this week in unrelated incidents.
The Department of Corrections announced the investigation into the untimely death of an inmate at the New Hampshire Men’s Prison in Concord in a press release Tuesday. The department said no additional information would be released after the family was notified and an autopsy was conducted by the Office of the Medical Examiner.

[Jimbuna]

The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
-- a New Zealand hill.

[Platapus]

Portobello, Button, and White (Cremini) Mushrooms are all the same species Agaricus bisporus, just at different levels of maturity.

[Jimbuna]

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

[Platapus]

The largest living organism on the planet is a single honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) in the Malheur National Forest, Oregon, USA.
It’s around 3.5 miles (5.6 km ) wide, occupies an area of 965 hectares (2,385 acres), and is at least 2,400 years old.

[Jimbuna]

According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon, which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.

[Platapus]

Yartsa Gunbu is the most expensive edible mushroom in the world.

Eating them is considered a status symbol, and at $50,000 per pound (£80,500 per kilogram), or $2,000 for a single ounce


Sounds like quite the delicacy. :up:

Yartsa Gunbu, or the caterpillar fungus, is a parasitic fungus that kills its host caterpillar and uses it to produce a mushroom that grows out of the caterpillar’s head.

https://grocycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Caterpillar-fungus-1-1024x680.jpg



Uh, on second thought, I think I will pass. :Kaleun_Sick:

[Jimbuna]

When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a person’s head.

[Jimbuna]

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates mating by ripping the male's head off.

[Platapus]

Owls don't have eyeballs, but more like eye tubes. They can only see straight ahead, which is why an Owl can rotate their heads so much... they have to.

[Jimbuna]

Butterflies taste with their feet.

[Platapus]

In the early 1300s, Britain established the first means to measure shoe size. King Edward II declared the barleycorn as the basis for shoe measurement.



There are three barleycorns to an inch

[Von Due]

The lenght of a barleycorn varies between about 4 millimeters and around 15 mm. Whoever had the largest barleycorn had the smallest feet in terms of barleycorns.

[Jimbuna]

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

[Platapus]

The smallest flower in the world is the Wolffia globosa or Watermeal. This tiny green plant is the size of a grain of rice, and the flower is located in a small hole in the surface of the plant.

[Jimbuna]

Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

[Platapus]

It is believed that a stapler was first invented in the 1700s for the French King Louis XV, in France and the staples were engraved with the royal insignia.

[Jimbuna]

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

[Aktungbby]

that is a myth, the flag was a small red maple leaf...https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/red-ensign-scare/ https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/images/business/graphics/2bill.jpg?resize=366%2C166&crop_strategy=smarthe introduction of a new $2 bill in September 1986 brought claims that it, too, depicted an American flag flying over Parliament (a claim which continues to circulate widely on one of those ubiquitous Internet lists of unusual “facts”), but as the inset in the image below shows, the flag in question is clearly Canada’s current national flag, the Maple Leaf Flag:

[Von Due]

^ or the Red Ensign on older bills.

[Jimbuna]

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

[Von Due]

Most uselesss fact: Nedelin would have appreciated fewer sparks.

[Platapus]

In 1984, the Buffalo Bills helmet's shell color was changed from white to red, primarily to help Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson distinguish them more readily from three of their division rivals at that time, the Baltimore Colts, the Miami Dolphins, and the New England Patriots, who all also wore white helmets at that time.

[Jimbuna]

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

[Platapus]

One Canada Goose can produce 1-2 pounds of poop every day.

[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.

[Platapus]

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.

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.


Not beaten by anything wider than your thumb? Even if you post the same useless fact twice :D:D:D

[Platapus]

A flock of hummingbirds can be referred to as a bouquet, a glittering, a hover, a shimmer, or a tune.

[Jimbuna]

An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

[Platapus]

3.8% of the landmass of the USA is National Parks.

84.6 million acres:up:

[Aktungbby]

A flock of hummingbirds can be referred to as a bouquet, a glittering, a hover, a shimmer, or a tune. It ain't so ''glittering'' when it flies into a ''murder'' of crows!
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.5d0e1f42377bde05fc5bdafbf8ce5c4e?rik=CpL4qliOaot i7Q&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwriteforwealthclub.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2015%2f06%2fa-murder-of-crows.jpg&ehk=ti6KWcegwmLYM1FvvYVZ8ktFqFL28KHq%2f5JgjhQrhDc% 3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&sres=1&sresct=1

[Platapus]

Ravens would say that was an unkindness

[Aktungbby]

NEVERMORE! quothe the conspiracy of ravens:shucks:

[Jimbuna]

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

[Platapus]

If you have bibliosma, like I do, you enjoy the smell of old books.

[mapuc]

In 1992, the Ubykh language, spoken by a people on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, became extinct.
The language consisted of about 83 consonants and only two vowels.
It was not a written language, but linguists have saved a lot of sound recordings and notes about Ubykh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubykh_language

Markus

[Aktungbby]

^ indeed it is an ergative dialect n linguistic typology, ergative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb.[1] Examples are Basque, Georgian, Mayan, Tibetan, certain Indo-European languages (such as the Kurdish languages and many Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi–Urdu). It has controversially also been attributed to the Semitic modern Aramaic languages.

This is in contrast to nominative–accusative alignment, which is observed in English and most other Indo-European languages, where the single argument of an intransitive verb ("She" in the sentence "She walks.") behaves grammatically like the agent of a transitive verb ("She" in the sentence "She finds it.") but different from the object of a transitive verb ("her" in the sentence "He likes her."). When ergative–absolutive alignment is coded by grammatical case, the case used for the single argument of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb is the absolutive, and the case used for the agent of a transitive verb is the ergative. In nominative-accusative languages, the case for the single argument of an intransitive verb and the agent of a transitive verb is the nominative while the case for the direct object of a transitive verb is the accusative.

Many languages have ergative–absolutive alignment only in some parts of their grammar (e.g., in the case marking of nouns), but nominative-accusative alignment in other parts (e.g., in the case marking of pronouns, or in person agreement). This is known as split ergativity.

[Platapus]

Scotland has the highest cocaine use of any other country in the world. One in 40 Scots use the drug, or about 2.4% of the population.

[Jimbuna]

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

[Platapus]

Wearable eyeglasses can be traced back to Italy around 1284

[Jimbuna]

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

[Platapus]

In 1861, Johann Philipp Reis put a loudspeaker in his telephone, and in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell gained a patent for a loudspeaker as part of his telephone, and Ernst Siemens, a German, patented an improved loudspeaker in 1877.

[ET2SN]

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

The spacesuit or the Astronaut? :hmmm:

Meanwhile,..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpvU5FX1y8

When in doubt, fry it. :yeah:

-Scrapple is usually a breakfast meat. Served with fried eggs. If you like catsup on your eggs, it goes well with Scrapple and ground pepper. If you like eggs and maple syrup, it also goes well with Scrapple. Keep your Scrapple refrigerated just prior to slicing.

-Yes, there really is an Intercourse, Pennsylvania. :yep:

[Jimbuna]

Every person has a unique tongue print.

[Platapus]

The C-130 aircraft holds the record for the longest continuously produced military aircraft in the world. More than 60 years and they are still building them.



An extra


Kelly Johnson told Lockheed management that if they invested in the C-130 project that it would result in the end of the company... can't win them all.

[Jimbuna]

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

[Platapus]

A well known "useless fact" is that the original Star Trek theme had lyrics, what is not commonly known is why?


Gene Roddenberry wrote the lyrics without the assistance, knowledge, or even permission of the theme's composer Alexander Courage.


Why? Money.


Not only did Roddenberry get a cut as the producer, but as the lyricist, he was also able to get half of the royalties that Courage and his team were getting. Roddenberry had no intention of ever having the show use the lyrics, it was all about getting more money


#roddenberryisabutthead

[Jimbuna]

American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

[Platapus]

US horse or Brit horse???


On a carousel, the Horse's side which faces outward was more heavily carved than the side facing inward. This way it is possible to tell the origin of a carousel horse because British carousels spin clockwise while the other spin counterclockwise.

[Jimbuna]

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

[Aktungbby]

Moreover, casino restaurant chefs don't use thyme either!??:doh:

[Platapus]

Scientists theorize that on the surface of Saturn itself, about 1,000 tons of diamonds rain from the sky every year.



It is unknown how many are named Lucy

[mapuc]

The filmmakers Laurel and Hardy were popular not only in the United States, but also in Europe.
The problem was that not everyone could understand English or read subtitles, and as it was too expensive and cumbersome to add new voices, the filmmakers had to re-record a few of the films, speaking Spanish, Italian, French and German.
However, Laurel and Hardy didn't know any of the languages, so they had to get help from a speech therapist and read from large pieces of cardboard with the lines written in audio script.

Markus

[Von Due]

Musk is willing tp pay 44 billion for twitter. That is 404900320000 in Norwegian Kroner. A tower of 10kr coins of that value is 809800 km tall.

[Jimbuna]

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

[Aktungbby]

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Especially...her's!!:timeout::o:arrgh!: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Annie_Jones.jpg/330px-Annie_Jones.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jones_(bearded_woman)

[Platapus]

It is estimated that there are about 100,000 payphones still existing in the US.

[Jeff-Groves]

It is estimated that there are about 100,000 payphones still existing in the US. paperweight bought about the untimely death of Paul 1st, Tsar of Russia, who reigned from 1754 till 1801. The Tsar or king as this might be more commonly referred to today was killed when a chase ensued in his bed quarters after a conspiracy was set up against him. He was chased around the room by the men until he tripped and fell, which then lead to a gilt and bronze paperweight falling on him.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/4709048

paperweight bought about the untimely death of Paul 1st, Tsar of Russia, who reigned from 1754 till 1801. The Tsar or king as this might be more commonly referred to today was killed when a chase ensued in his bed quarters after a conspiracy was set up against him. He was chased around the room by the men until he tripped and fell, which then lead to a gilt and bronze paperweight falling on him.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/4709048

paperweight bought about the untimely death of Paul 1st, Tsar of Russia, who reigned from 1754 till 1801. The Tsar or king as this might be more commonly referred to today was killed when a chase ensued in his bed quarters after a conspiracy was set up against him. He was chased around the room by the men until he tripped and fell, which then lead to a gilt and bronze paperweight falling on him.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/4709048

paperweight bought about the untimely death of Paul 1st, Tsar of Russia, who reigned from 1754 till 1801. The Tsar or king as this might be more commonly referred to today was killed when a chase ensued in his bed quarters after a conspiracy was set up against him. He was chased around the room by the men until he tripped and fell, which then lead to a gilt and bronze paperweight falling on him.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/4709048

It's useless to try to figure out WTF happened with this quoted post.
:haha:

[Jimbuna]

Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.

[Platapus]

It's useless to try to figure out WTF happened with this quoted post.
:haha:


I don't know what happened there. :doh::doh::doh::oops:

[Platapus]

The first traffic light was in London in 1868 in front of the British Parliament. Traffic lights didn’t make it to the US until 1914, when they were installed in Cleveland, Ohio!

[Jimbuna]

Sloths can hold their breath for longer than dolphins.

[Platapus]

Guinness world records has certified the oldest living dog.


Born 9 Jan 2001 a 21-year-old chihuahua named TobyKeith who lives in Florida

[Jimbuna]

The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.

[Platapus]

Unlike all other living birds, the ostrich secretes urine separately from faeces.

[fireftr18]

The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.

Some say it doesn't do me any good because I'm still full of it.

[Jimbuna]

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

[Jimbuna]

It’s impossible to tickle yourself.

[Platapus]

Ferns do not develop flowers and seed. They reproduce via miniature cells called spores.

[Jimbuna]

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

[Platapus]

The earliest known use of pillows is in Ancient Mesopotamia, which dates back to 7000 B.C.E. Unlike our pillows today, these ancient pillows were hard. They were made of stone.

[Jeff-Groves]

There are dozens of Screws that use different drivers.
Most people only know about 3 of them.

[Jimbuna]

Dolphins give each other names.

[Aktungbby]

which gives them porpoiseful self-awareness

[Jimbuna]

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

[Platapus]

Spending up to 20 hours of the day sleeping or resting, lions are the laziest of the big cats.



My cat: Hold my catnip

[Jimbuna]

One man set a world record by putting on 260 T-shirts at once.

[Platapus]

Ryan Island is the largest island in the largest lake in the largest island in the largest lake in North America.



:doh:

[Jimbuna]

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

[Platapus]

In the first Star Wars movie, Darth Vader's screen time was about 12 minutes

[Platapus]

The earliest known scissors appeared in Mesopotamia 3,000 to 4,000 years ago

[Aktungbby]

That is shear nonsense!:03:

[Otto Harkaman]

When was the term Anglo-Saxon first used?

8th century

The term Anglo-Saxon seems to have been first used by Continental writers in the late 8th century to distinguish the Saxons of Britain from those of the European continent, whom St. Bede the Venerable had called Antiqui Saxones (“Old Saxons”).

[Reece]

The earliest known scissors appeared in Mesopotamia 3,000 to 4,000 years ago
Yes, yes, that is a useless fact!! :yep:

[Jimbuna]

A “jiffy” is about one trillionth of a second.

[Platapus]

Oranges are orange only because they have lost their chlorophyll

[Jimbuna]

Dragonflies have six legs but can’t walk.

[Platapus]

The Hawaiian pizza, that abomination with pineapple, was created by a Greek man living in Canada in 1962.


Why Hawaiian? That was the brand of pineapple he used.

[Aktungbby]

He was ...on the Dole!??:timeout:

[Platapus]

At one time, Germany has an entire day (June 24th) celebrating (Spargelzeit) asparagus

[Jimbuna]

Pope John Paul II was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

[Platapus]

The number of distinct 40-move games in chess is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe.

[Jimbuna]

Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.

[Platapus]

When the first transatlantic cable was in operation in 1858, the signal degradation was so high that messages could be sent at a speed of one word per minute.

[Jimbuna]

The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

[Platapus]

The common carp can lay up to 300,000 eggs at a time

[Sean C]

The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

As a former Realtor®, I find this interesting and I believe it to be accurate.

[Jimbuna]

The U.S. Air Force introduced Bob Ross to painting.

[Platapus]

Bob Ross was a drill instructor in the USAF


One of the reasons he was so soft spoken in later life was that he did not want to yell at people any more

[Jimbuna]

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

[Platapus]

The Boeing 707 was the first commercial passenger airliner where the economy class was larger than first class

[Jimbuna]

Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.

[Platapus]

Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.




Becoming a most popular useless fact. :O:

[Platapus]

In 2021, the number of mobile devices operating worldwide stood at almost 15 billion.


Interesting considering that the population of the world is abut 7 billion.

[Jimbuna]

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

[Platapus]

In October 1941, the U.S. government adopted the British practice of identifying airplanes with a name. The C-47 was the first airplane given a name by the Army “ Skytrain .”

[Jimbuna]

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

[Platapus]

The concept of the aircraft gunship originated in 1926 with a .30-caliber Lewis machine gun mounted on the wing of a de Havilland DH-4. It flew “pylon turns” to keep the gun on target.

[Jimbuna]

The chicken and the ostrich are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex.

[Platapus]

Ocelots are found in open areas only when it’s cloudy or at night when there is a new moon.

[Jimbuna]

Queen Elizabeth II’s cows sleep on waterbeds.

[Aktungbby]

...gently lowing in udder comfort:03:

[Platapus]

December 4 is National Sock Day in America.

[Jimbuna]

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

[Sean C]

All of my neighbors own dogs. None of them are Basenjis. :cry:

[Platapus]

On average, a pencil can be sharpened 17 times, draw a line 35 miles long or can write approximately 45,000 words.

[Platapus]

The comedy/tragedy masks actually have names.



https://graphicriver.img.customer.envatousercontent.com/files/8969661/comedy_tragedy_masks_590.jpg?auto=compress%2Cforma t&q=80&fit=crop&crop=top&max-h=8000&max-w=590&

Thalia represents the comedy mask and Melpomene represents the tragedy mask.

[Jimbuna]

“Schoolmaster” is an anagram of “the classroom.”

[mapuc]

In 1939, in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, consideration was to give a rather humiliating punishment to people who violated the traffic law.
They had to hand over their number plate at the police station and were instead given a similar one with a skull on it, as well as the words "traffic-law violator"

Markus

[Jimbuna]

It’s possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds.

[Jimbuna]

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

[Platapus]

22 May is World Goth Day

[Platapus]

Only 2% Of London’s Cab Drivers Are Female

[Jimbuna]

A dentist invented the electric chair.

[Aktungbby]

/\Westinghouse/Edison follies:...2000 volts of AC would tend to amalgamate yer fillings...poor Mr Kemmler (1st executee)took 8 minutes of cooking and two throws of the switch to die.... as horrified nauseated witnesses attempted to flee the room. :hmmm:

[Platapus]

The creator of Peter Pan gave the rights to a children’s hospital so they would always collect the royalties and fund the hospital.

[Cybermat47]

A tarantula's sex can only be determined by looking at its shed skin or its interactions with other tarantulas.

[Platapus]

The term ‘wallet’ was first used in the 1300s, used to describe knapsacks and bags that often stored food, although the modern use of the term did not originate until the 1800s.

[Jimbuna]

The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can.

[Platapus]

The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can.


You posted that back in 16 Jan. :D



A camel's hump not only stores fat for sustenance, but also stores heat to keep the camel warm at night.

[Aktungbby]

The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can.

The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can.

You posted that back in 16 Jan. :D



By god! he did!??:k_confused:

[Platapus]

A coconut tree can have up to 180 coconuts harvested during a single harvest.

[Jimbuna]

A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.

[Aktungbby]

A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.posted 1/11/2021

A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.

:k_confused: I and PlataBBY are all apringle over your sudden duplicate postings...:ping::ping::hmmm:

[Platapus]

The word “avocado” didn’t appear in the lexicon until the US Department of Agriculture decided that “avocado” was much more appealing than “alligator pear.”

[Platapus]

The longest English word would take three and a half hours to say out loud.

The full, technical name of the protein commonly known as "titin" (which helps keep our muscles elastic) is 189,819 letters long. The reason is that this protein consists of 34,350 amino acids.


If you want to see this long word, here is a site that has it.



https://www.digitalspy.com/fun/a444700/longest-word-has-189819-letters-takes-three-hours-to-pronounce/

[Jimbuna]

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

[Ostfriese]

Bismuth, long thought to be the heaviest stable element in the periodic table of elements, naturally consists of only one isotope, Bismuth-209. In 2003 this isotope was discovered to be radioactive (alpha decay) with a half life of 2*10^19 years - about a billion times the estimated age of the universe.

[Platapus]

Asphalt pavements—not paper, plastics, or cardboard—are America’s most recycled product. Close to 99% of asphalt pavements are recycled.

[Jimbuna]

You produce about six pounds of stool per week.

[Platapus]

The Latin term for ‘lead’ is ‘plumbum’, which has been used as the root for the English word ‘plumber’, which originally meant ‘a worker of lead’

[Jimbuna]

A frigate bird can sleep while it flies.

[Platapus]

Baby porcupines are known as porcupettes.

[Jimbuna]

Octopuses and squid have three hearts.

[Platapus]

About 40% of all mammals currently living are rodents.



I wonder if that percentage includes politicians?


#sincereappologiestoallrodents

[fireftr18]

About 40% of all mammals currently living are rodents.



I wonder if that percentage includes politicians?


#sincereappologiestoallrodents

That statement is insulting to rodents.

[Jeff-Groves]

I'd think politicians could also be reptiles.
Such as snakes.
It's kind questionable as most don't seem to have any back bones.

[Jimbuna]

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

[Aktungbby]

Turkey is now officially Türkiye a name change at the UN; to better reflect the culture of the country, including the the way the name is actually pronounced...and does not suggest the key element of the American holiday feast! Now that's what I call: "talkin' turkey!":arrgh!:

[Platapus]

TV's Mr. Clean has a first name


Veritably


"The name's Clean. Veritably Clean"

[Jeff-Groves]

So. Is Mister Proper cleaning the dirt from Ukraine?
:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Those metal studs on your jeans have a purpose. They’re placed on certain spots to add extra support where the denim is more likely to wear out and rip.

[Platapus]

in WWII, the bail out procedures for the B-17 included the bombardier shooting the Norton Bombsite with his side arm.



Furthermore, the procedure specified two shots at the optical site and one in the mechanical tracking mechanism.

[Jimbuna]

In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyonce.

[Platapus]

When Oliver Cromwell overthrew King Charles I, in 1653, he banned the mass production of wallpaper because he disapproved of anything considered frivolous and vain.

[Jimbuna]

Slinkies are 82 feet long.

[Platapus]

Over 60% of the cut roses sold in the US were grown in Columbia.

[Ostfriese]

Hydrogen molecules are so small that they can diffuse through steel. Hydrogen pressure inside a gas bottle decreases noticeably over time even if all valves are tightly shut.

[Platapus]

While raccoons are omnivorous creatures that will eat almost anything, they steer clear of tomatoes.

[mapuc]

In 1974, Sweden tried to improve relations with North Korea, and Volvo therefore made an agreement to sell 1,000 cars to the country.
The Volvos arrived in North Korea as planned within a year, but payment for the order was slow in coming.
The matter therefore passed to the Swedish state, and in 1976 Sweden asked North Korea for payment of some DKK 426 million.
The money never arrived, however, and to this day Sweden still sends two reminders a year for the cars, which can still be seen driving around North Korea.
The bill now stands at almost DKK 2 billion.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

has Sweden cut off the spare Volvo parts like we did with the Iranian Tomcats?