useless facts

[mapuc]

LOL The story doesn't mention anything about spare parts.

If I know the Swedes-They are, despite not getting the money, most likely sending spare parts.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Sweden, which maintains an embassy in N. Korea which acts as a "protecting power" for American diplomatic interests usually involving dumb detained Yankees! Volvo manufactures cars in China...:hmmm: I'd imagine there's a parts pipeline emanating from the Xi dynasty to to the Un II dynasty to maintain the 'billion euro' taxi fleet..:yep: I'd also imagine that, at this preWW III time in history, having a NATO Swede embassy in Pyongpang, clearly a dependent puppet state of Peking, is strategically useful to the West in the face of Commie bastards Xi and Vlad the war criminal's publically declared stated "limitless friendship". :hmmm:

[mapuc]

^ I think you're right on spot here.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones.

[mapuc]

(Must be BDC=Belgium Dumbest Criminals)

In 2018, a group of shoplifters entered an e-cigarette shop in Charleroi, Belgium, in broad daylight to rob it.
Store owner Didier spent 15 minutes talking to the robbers and convinced them to come back at closing time, when he wanted much more money.
The robbers took him at his word and returned an hour before closing time, where they were told to wait until 6.30pm, when the shop was due to close.
Again, they trusted him and when they returned again a little before 6.30pm, the police were ready to arrest the gang.

Markus

[Platapus]

The United Kingdom is the world's largest distributor of Independence Days. :D

[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.”


That's the fourth time you liked this one. :D:D

[Platapus]

Ducks have the ability to sleep with one eye closed and half of their brain asleep. They then switch out. This allows them to have constant awareness to avoid predators while still sleeping.

[Ostfriese]

Anyone who claims to have an IQ beyond 160 usually hasn't understood something very important about IQs and thus is likely to have a (much) lower IQ.

[Jimbuna]

Ravens know when someone is spying on them

[Platapus]

Think you are hung like a duck?


The average length of a duck's penis is 8 inches.



One species of duck, the Argentine Lack Duck (Oxyura vittata), has a 17″ long penis.

Does not seem to be "lacking" much




Uff da :o

[Otto Harkaman]

Research shows that most violent ethnic cleansing occurred when members of the majority community gained combat experience as soldiers.

[Platapus]

The aardvark has an entire scientific order to itself. It is the only species in the genus Orycteropus, which is the only genus in the family Orycteropidae. Which, in turn, is the only family in the order Tubulidentata.

[Jimbuna]

You are 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday.

[Jeff-Groves]

Ugly Bags of mostly water.
While the average percentage of water in a person’s body is around 60%, the percentage can vary from roughly 45–75%.

[Otto Harkaman]

Many Thoroughbred breeders will use lights to fool a mare’s body into thinking it is spring so that she will go into heat early.

[Jimbuna]

Antarctica is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.

[Aktungbby]

: /\ wait a bit; the Chinese are in the Solomons; were thwarted in Greenland, ...and are expanding into the south Atlantic....:hmmm: to misquote the late Duke of Edinburgh: I'm getting slitty in anticipation::o:oops:.... :x

[Jimbuna]

There are 10 times more stars in the night sky than grains of sand in the world’s deserts and beaches.

[Platapus]

The Long Legged Burrowing Owl (Athene Cunicularia ) uses its own poop at bait to lure Dung Beetles close to the den.

[Jimbuna]

The average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles. Which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator.

[Platapus]

Wombats have cube shaped poop.

Apparently this stops the poo from rolling off their marked territory of rocks or trees.

[Ostfriese]

A parsec is the longest measurement for distance yet created. It's used to measure the distance between stars and even galaxies, and one parsec is about 3.26 light years (30.9 trillion km / 19.2 trillion miles).


Combined with the "atto-" SI prefix (10^-18) it becomes "Attoparsec" - a length of about 3.09cm (1.215in), easily usable for everyday nerdiness.

[Jimbuna]

You spend 92 days of your life on the toilet.

[Jimbuna]

One-quarter of your body’s bones are in your feet.

[Platapus]

The first mechanical calculator was invented by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, when he was 19 in 1642, to help is father calculate mathematical sums.

[Jeff-Groves]

The nails on your dominant hand grow faster than the rest, as do the nails on your longer fingers. Your fingernails also grow faster during the day and during the summer.

[Platapus]

When the Great Eastern ship was first attempted to be launched on 3 Nov 1857, it was the heaviest single object moved by humans.

[Jimbuna]

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

[Platapus]

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


That's the third time you have used this one. :D


Jim Weatherly's song Midnight Train to Georgia was based on a phone conversation he had with Farrah Fawcett when she was talking about an instance in her relationship with Lee Majors

[Jimbuna]

“Spoonfeed” is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

[Jimbuna]

Sleeping through summer is called “estivation.”

[Ostfriese]

The average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles. Which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator.


However, if you die in the same space/place you were born at your average velocity will be zero.

[Jimbuna]

If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called “eigengrau.”

[Platapus]

Male mosquitoes use thousands of tiny hairs that grow along their antennae to hear.

[Jimbuna]

More human twins are being born now than ever before.

[Platapus]

It takes 5,000 pounds of fresh rose petals to make just one pound of rose oil


Makes me wonder why I don't see more squeaky roses.

[Jimbuna]

A narwhal's tusk reveals its past living conditions.

[Jimbuna]

The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.

[Platapus]

The English word for tomato comes from the Spanish word tomate, which itself came from the Nahuatl, the ancient Aztec language, word tomatl. The Aztec name translated to “Plump thing with a navel.”


I once dated a plump thing with a navel. She was quite the tomato. :up:

[Ostfriese]

Vaporizing any amount of water (changing its state of matter from "liquid" to "gaseous") without changing it's temperature requires as much energy as increasing the temperature of the same amount of gaseous water by about 500K.


Vaporizing any amount of liquid water at 100°C (212°F) expands its volume by a factor of about 1700.

[Jimbuna]

"New car smell" is the scent of dozens of chemicals.

[Platapus]

Up until the 1770's, erasers were usually damp bread

[Jimbuna]

The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.

[Jimbuna]

The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body.

[Platapus]

Vinculums are used to designate repetends and radicands.



But that's just stating the obvious. :D

[Jimbuna]

Hair and nails grow faster during pregnancy.

[Platapus]

The paper clip was invented by several people in different countries around the same period of time.

[Jimbuna]

Some sea snakes can breathe through their skin.

[Platapus]

When a spider is done with its web, it eats it.



This helps them produce more webs.

[Jimbuna]

The heads on Easter Island have bodies.

[Jimbuna]

The moon has moonquakes.

[Jimbuna]

Goosebumps are meant to ward off predators.

[Jimbuna]

There's no such thing as "pear cider."

[mapuc]

There's no such thing as "pear cider."

?? So what is it that I drank a lot of when I lived in Sweden-Päron Cider.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

"Cider" is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples, and only apples. Alcoholic beverages can be made from pears, but that drink is known as "perry." The drink was popular in England for centuries but fell out of favor during the second half of the twentieth century. That turned around in the 1990s when the drink was rebranded as pear cider.

[mapuc]

"Cider" is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples, and only apples. Alcoholic beverages can be made from pears, but that drink is known as "perry." The drink was popular in England for centuries but fell out of favor during the second half of the twentieth century. That turned around in the 1990s when the drink was rebranded as pear cider.

Thank you for explaining it for me. So you were right.

Well the Pear cider I bought was without alcohol, but in in the Swedish Systembolaget-System company you can buy pear cider with a high percentage alcohol.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Humans are the only animals that blush.

[Platapus]

Humans are the only animals that blush.




Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -Mark Twain.

[Platapus]

The first recorded marriage on roller skates was in 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin between a Miss Hattie Baldwin and Mr. W. McGrath

[Jimbuna]

The feeling of getting lost inside a mall is known as the Gruen transfer.

[Jimbuna]

The wood frog can hold its pee for up to eight months.

[Jimbuna]

You lose up to 30 percent of your taste buds during flight.

[Platapus]

In 1924, major light bulb manufacturers banned together to voluntarily down grade the lifespan of incandescent light bulbs in the US and other countries. They also agreed to fix the price.


This was one of the first multinational planned obsolescence schemes.


It did not end until the start of WWII.



Here is a nice documentary on it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuaQiJ60xYQ&list=PLNdeNEKOAamAMY8gfZvMVhFeJaBz_fSB0&index=42

[Jimbuna]

Your nostrils work one at a time.

[Platapus]

Michael Joseph Blassie was the Unknown Soldier entombed in the Vietnam section of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. As such he was awarded the Medal of Honor like the others.


When his remains were identified, he was removed to be buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.


Since he was identified, the Medal of Honor was not transferred to him.



The Vietnam Cenotaph remains unoccupied.

[Rockstar]

The atomic mass of lithium is 7, which is the ‘7’ in the popular drink 7-up. Fortunately they no longer add lithium to their drink.

[Jimbuna]

Only two mammals like spicy food: humans and the tree shrew.

[Platapus]

The remains to be interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, were selected from a choice of identical coffins/caskets, each containing remains from that particular war. The selection has been made for all four selections by a highly decorated enlisted member.

[Jimbuna]

A chef's toque contains 100 folds.

[Jimbuna]

Rabbits can't puke.

[mapuc]

^ Either can I

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Didn't know you were related to Bugs Bunny :03:

[Platapus]

The Apollo 11 mission patch was unique from the other Apollo mission patches.


There were no names on it.

[Jimbuna]

The "M's" in M&Ms stand for "Mars" and "Murrie."

[Platapus]

Koalas, as the only living members of their family, phascolarctidae, they’re unlike anything else on this planet.


They are one of the few truly unique species left.

[Jimbuna]

Copper door knobs are self-disinfecting.

[Jimbuna]

Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.

[Jimbuna]

Fingernails don't grow after you die.

[Jimbuna]

The English word with the most definitions is "set."

[Jimbuna]

Creedence Clearwater Revival has the most No. 2 Billboard hits—without ever hitting No. 1.

[Jimbuna]

Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso.

[Jimbuna]

Space smells like seared steak.

[Aktungbby]

The English word with the most definitions is "set."Including my favorite Egyptian deity: Set (Seth) murderer of Osirus and god of disorder and chaos in the ordered universe...ie: the source of my profile's interests"Götterdämmerung vs Ma'at" in the universe. Nuthin like being beSet:03: by, global warming, Covid and a Russian megalomaniac to make the case for his existance...:hmmm: :oops: :dead:http://historicaleve.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/god-set.jpg

[Aktungbby]

There are 293 ways to make change from an American dollar...

[Jimbuna]

The longest wedding veil was the same length as 63.5 football fields.

[Jimbuna]

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

[Platapus]

The First Electric Washing Machine Was Named Thor

It was invented in 1907 by Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company based in Chicago.

[Aktungbby]

Of the 193 members of the United Nations, Britain has invaded 171 of them! :Kaleun_Salute::hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

The total weight of ants on earth once equaled the total weight of people.

[Jimbuna]

"E" is the most common letter and appears in 11 percent of all english words.

[Platapus]

There is no laundry on the ISS.


The dirty clothes are ejected and incinerated. In order to conserve cargo space and weight, the astronauts are instructed to wear their clothes for multiple days in a row. Underwear must be worn for as many as 7 days time.



And you thought it was fun being an astronaut/cosmonaut?

[Jimbuna]

A dozen bodies were once found in Benjamin Franklin's basement.

[Jimbuna]

The healthiest place in the world is in Panama.

[Jimbuna]

A pharaoh once lathered his slaves in honey to keep bugs away from him.

[Platapus]

Green iguanas have a third eye on the top of their heads. It’s not a normal eye, but it does carry some anatomical characteristics of their normal eyes.

This third eye is called the pineal gland or parietal eye. While it doesn’t help them see images, it can sense movement, alerting iguanas of predators who may be lurking above.

[Jeff-Groves]

alerting iguanas of predators who may be lurking above.
Unfortunatly? It don't help them when hunted by Air Gunners.
:haha:
And they DO taste somewhat like Chicken!
:03:

[mapuc]

From 1862 to 1876, the United States chose to print even small amounts on banknotes, as there was a shortage of coins, which people hoarded for the metal.
Congress chose the third 5 cent bill to honor William Clark, who was an explorer.
But when the message arrived, the instructions simply said "Clark", so an overseer named Spencer Clark seized the opportunity to arrange for the US currency to be printed with Stephen Clark's own face on it

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Pringles aren't actually potato chips.

[Platapus]

More people died in manufacturing the V2 missile than were killed when it was employed.

[Jimbuna]

Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard left his post at Ford's Theatre to go for a drink.

[Platapus]

During and just after WWII, the US military was claiming that Flame Throwers were actually a humane and merciful weapon.


Bostick O. Mercy killer: instant death from the flame thrower. Chem Warfare Bull. 1944;30(1):16–7.


The problem was that no one ever bothered to study the effects of flame throwers. Near the end of WWII, the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS), the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), the Medical Corps, and a host of other private companies and universities conducted experiments on the toxicology and physiology of flamethrower attacks that better assessed the military utility and killing power of this terrifying weapon. These studies helped end the notion of flamethrowers as mercy weapons



CWS studies flame deaths. Chem Warfare Bull. 1944;30(2):31–2.



https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1186%2Fs40779-020-00237-9/MediaObjects/40779_2020_237_Fig3_HTML.png?as=webp

Flame throwers as mercy weapons. :doh::doh: Wow.


For an interesting read on the history of this


https://mmrjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40779-020-00237-9

[Jeff-Groves]

Is there ANY Weapon used in War that is actually Merciful?
:o

[Jimbuna]

Playing the accordion was once required for teachers in North Korea.

[Platapus]

Litotes is a form of Meiosis.


Which is not too bad. :)


But confusing it with Auxesis would be the worst mistake you could make.


:)

[Jimbuna]

Children's medicine once contained morphine.

[Platapus]

Union doctors, during the Civil War, over administered Opium to the point where hundreds of soldiers became addicts.



When these soldiers either died or tried to get help/pension, it was frequently denied on the grounds that they were an addict. :doh:



https://www.timelinesmagazine.com/publication/civil_war_courier/old-soldiers-disease-civil-war-opium-and-morphine-addiction/article_80b4b748-c568-11eb-9399-d791c2334e05.html

[Jeff-Groves]

So business as usual for the VA.

[Jimbuna]

Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.

[Jimbuna]

Our European ancestors were cannibals.

[Jimbuna]

Pro baseball once had women players.

[Aktungbby]

There's a movie about that!:shucks:

[Jeff-Groves]

Not Female Pro BaseBall player ever got tossed in jail in Russia for drugs.

[Jimbuna]

Koalas have fingerprints.

[Platapus]

The first known sign of jelly beans came from an advertisement for William Shrafft of Boston that promoted sending jelly beans to union soldiers during the civil war.

[em2nought]

The first known sign of jelly beans came from an advertisement for William Shrafft of Boston that promoted sending jelly beans to union soldiers during the civil war.


They were almost the perfect size to plug the entry hole from a Minie ball. :D

[Jimbuna]

Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.

[Jimbuna]

Dinosaurs lived on every continent.

[Platapus]

Do you like honey?
Are you interested in the pollen that was used to make the honey?


Then you may be a Melissopalynologist


If you experience an interest in Melissopalynology lasting more than four hours, seek medical attention

[Jimbuna]

Bee hummingbirds are so small they get mistaken for insects.

[Platapus]

It takes between 7 and 21 days to make a single jelly bean due to the process called "panning".



Fortunately, it is possible to make many many jelly beans at the same time. :D

[Jimbuna]

Sea lions can dance to a beat.

[Platapus]

Crows will use bait to lure in fish to eat


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_8hPcnGeCI

[Jimbuna]

Rolls-Royce makes the most expensive car in the world.

[Jimbuna]

The famed "Typhoid Mary" infected more than 50 people by cooking for them.

[Jimbuna]

The legend of the Loch Ness Monster goes back nearly 1,500 years.

[Platapus]

A Disdyakis triacontahedron Die has 120 sides



https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1483/3510/products/dicepicture6.jpg?v=1533334450


It is thought to be the largest number of sides that can be mathematically fair and still operate as a die.



"Fireball hits. All take 3D120 damage"


:o:o:o:o

[Jimbuna]

Chinese police use geese squads.

[Jimbuna]

The first iPhone wasn't made by Apple.

[Platapus]

By the 1860s, butter had become so in demand in France that Emperor Napoleon III offered prize money for an inexpensive substitute to supplement France’s inadequate butter supplies. A French chemist claimed the prize with the invention of margarine in 1869.

[Jimbuna]

For 100 years, maps have shown an island (Sandy Island), that doesn't exist.

[Jeff-Groves]

For 100 years, maps have shown an island (Sandy Island), that doesn't exist.

That's funny! Reason? Doing work for SH3 and up? We found that mistake in the files! We deleted said Island.
:har:

[Platapus]

Starfish can not only regenerate a missing arm, but if the missing arm is not otherwise damaged, the severed arm can regenerate a starfish.

[Jimbuna]

The man who wrote Dracula never visited Transylvania.

[Platapus]

Ocelots are cursorial, altricial, and scansorial


But that's just stating the obvious.

[Rockstar]

73.6 percent of all statistics are made up.

[Jimbuna]

The Australian government banned the word "mate" for a day.

[Jimbuna]

A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat.

[SonnySmiles]

Ducks don't like rain

[Platapus]

Roger Bannister's "four minute mile" record stood for 46 days before it was broken.

[Jimbuna]

Napoleon was once attacked by thousands of rabbits.

Napoleon Bonaparte was once one of the most powerful men in Europe, but he suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands (or paws) of rabbits. After a military victory, Napoleon's chief of staff organized a rabbit hunt to celebrate. Thousands of rabbits were brought in to be set loose, but instead of hopping away when the cages were opened, they turned to attack, swarming the partygoers. After trying and failing to shoo them away, the great Emperor Napoleon ran for the safety of his carriage.

[Platapus]

February 23 is National Tile Day

[Jimbuna]

Star Trek's Scotty stormed the beach at Normandy.

[Jeff-Groves]

What episode was that?
:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Canadian actor James Doohan, best known for playing Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original Star Trek series, served in World War II with the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. As a commissioned lieutenant, he led his troop up a mine-strewn Juno Beach as part of the Allied Forces' D-Day invasion. Later in the day, he was wounded by friendly fire that caused the amputation of the middle finger on his right hand. You might not have noticed it because, during his time on Star Trek, directors did the best they could to avoid showing the injury on screen.
https://www.facebook.com/Romanimardi/photos/a.102799265625327/138541705384416/?type=3

[Platapus]

in 1928, the US National Screw Thread Commission established a standard for screw threads. For the first time, screws were interchangeable.

[Jimbuna]

Apple Pie isn't actually American.

[Platapus]

It takes 2700 liters of water to make a single T-Shirt.

[Jimbuna]

Pigs are constitutionally protected in Florida.

[Platapus]

People have been looking at Uranus since 128 BCE.


:o:o

[Platapus]

What is recognized as the first science fiction book was written in the 2nd century CE. The Roman author Lucian wrote "A True Story" that involved a group of travelers who managed to sail from the Earth into space, finding themselves caught in a war between the Sun and the Moon over the planet Venus.

[Jimbuna]

Some planets produce diamond rain.

[Platapus]

Despite popular belief, the moon has an atmosphere.


Not much of an atmosphere, but it has one.


The air pressure on the Moon averages only 0.3 nPa, where Earth’s average air pressure is 101.33 kPa.


Scientists are still not sure why the chemical composition of the moon's atmosphere is different from the chemical composition of the moon's surface.

[Jimbuna]

Sharks can live for five centuries.

[Platapus]

In a 2012 issue of Detective Comics, a Cow was rescued from a slaughterhouse by Batman and Robin in order to test her for diseases that she may have been infected with by a group of criminals. Robin affectionately named her Bat-Cow, and he and Batman later decided to keep her. She now lives in a barn at Wayne Manor.



Bat Cow! Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo, Bat Cow!


https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/10/100647/4188820-untitled-4.jpg

[Jimbuna]

It is illegal to sell a "bounceless" pickle to somebody in Connecticut.

[Platapus]

Code of the Comics Magazine Association of America
Adopted October 26, 1954



"Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities."


Really??

[Jimbuna]

There's a world record—and a happy ending—for the greatest distance thrown in a car accident.

[Platapus]

The coma or tail of a comet can stretch 60,000,000 miles in length.

[Jimbuna]

You can sneeze faster than a cheetah can run.

[Platapus]

Played properly, it takes about 2 minutes to play the Minute Waltz.

[Jimbuna]

The fire hydrant patent was lost in a fire.

[Platapus]

Technically, the wooden handle of an Axe is called the Haft.

[Catfish]

It is called "Heft". German, you know :D

[Jimbuna]

Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.

[Platapus]

It is called "Heft". German, you know :D




It's like them Germans have a different word for everything!

[Platapus]

Bela Lugosi was never in the movie Plan 9 From Outer Space.


The film shots of him were intended for another movie entitled The Vampire's Tomb. When Lugosi died in 1959, Ed Wood decided to use this footage of his new movie "Grave Robbers from Outer Space" (To be renamed Plan 9) in order to cash in on Lugosi's name and attract other actors to be in the film.


You did not know this because:


https://youtu.be/nDKDBd22lNM

[Jimbuna]

The cast of Friends still earns around $20 million each year.

[Platapus]

Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette were married for over seven years before they properly "consummated" their marriage.



They were married at a young age, when Louis was 15 and Marie Antoinette was 14. They basically did not know what to do. It was Marie Antoinette's brother, Emperor Joseph II, who finally had a serious discussion with them - which led to them finally consummating their marriage.


"ya see, Louie, you put tab A into Slot B....."

[Jimbuna]

Cows kill more Americans each year than sharks do.

[Platapus]

A regular BIC ballpoint pen can draw a line that’s about 2 kilometers long.

[Aktungbby]

Cows kill more Americans each year than sharks do.Well, I wish the stock market was more 'bullish'...my meager investments can't bear much more of the current ongoings on Wallstrasse!:wah:

[Platapus]

The SR-71 Aircraft burned 5,000 pounds of fuel in order to just start up and taxi to the end of the runway.



Not including fuel used for the actual take-off. :o:o


Thirsty bird!

[Jimbuna]

Newborns don't have kneecaps.

[Platapus]

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, there is only one star that is mounted on a vertical surface instead of being embedded in the sidewalk.


That is Muhammad Ali's star, which was approved in a rather controversial decision that boxing was considered a form of "life performance".

[Jimbuna]

In Germany, people help toads cross the road.

[Aktungbby]

...not on the autobahn they don't!:D:oops::dead:https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/cars-driving-with-high-speed-on-german-autobahn-picture-id502294236?k=20&m=502294236&s=612x612&w=0&h=LPTy_3FxeYOPZt2-_VySS1cz2quYoVA0VHSc0ziyvZg=

[Platapus]

Graveyards are associated, and normally colocated, with a church
Cemeteries are not associated with a church

[Jimbuna]

Cheetahs don't roar.

[Platapus]

In many movies, the tails of dogs/wolves have to be "CGIed". The reason is that the dog actors are usually happy and excited about performing that they can't control their wagger.

[mapuc]

When the then-future English Queen Elizabeth II was to be married in 1947, clothing was still rationed, so she was therefore given special permission by the British government to get 200 extra clothing rationing marks in order to get the fabric for the wedding dress.
She also had to return hundreds of ration stamps that women across the country had sent her as gifts, as it was illegal to give them away.

Markus

[Platapus]

The Word “Telephone” Was Used Before The Telephone Existed

The term actually predated the device as we know it. The word “telephone” was first used in 1828 by a man named Francois Sudre to describe his invention, which was a musical signaling device.

[Jimbuna]

France has a dozen time zones.

[Platapus]

Foldable backgammon boards became popular in the 16th century. The Catholic Church banned the playing backgammon and the foldable boards were made to resemble books.... hopefully not resembling the books that the Catholic church were burning.

[mapuc]

What would you do if you won the lottery? In 1999, an American woman won $1.3 million in the lottery, and because she didn't want to let her husband of 25 years spend it, she divorced 11 days after she won.
However, she did not tell anyone about the gain in the divorce settlement, and when the man found out, he sued her.
The judge ended up awarding him all the money from the lottery prize.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Humans aren't the only species to adopt.

[Platapus]

There are 362,800 distinct ways to place Xs and Os on the tick-tack-toe grid

[Jimbuna]

Your liver can regrow itself in three weeks.

[Jimbuna]

Danes once bred a pig to look like the flag.

[Jimbuna]

A 70-year-old woman once completed seven marathons in seven days, across all seven continents.

[Jimbuna]

One man was once constipated for nearly two months.

[Jimbuna]

Most people break up on Mondays.

[Platapus]

If you travel to Schriever SFB, CO, one of the first things you receive is a safety briefing on Altitude Sickness.



Second useless fact: Altitude Sickness is a real thing


Third useless fact: I still feel like crap. :03:

[mapuc]

Second useless fact: Altitude Sickness is a real thing


Despite being in the useless fact thread I found it interesting so I asked google

What is altitude sickness

Where I found this question:

"What are the 3 stages of altitude sickness?"

Answer:

"CLINICAL PRESENTATION. Altitude illness is divided into 3 syndromes: acute mountain sickness (AMS), high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE), and high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE)."

Markus

[Platapus]

The name “hamster” comes from the German word, hamstern, which means “to hoard.”

[Jimbuna]

There may be 2,000 active serial killers in the U.S. right now.

[Platapus]

U.S. Air Force pilots who fly the venerable U-2 spy plane always keep a $2 bill in their flight suit.

[Jimbuna]

Beethoven could still hear after going deaf.

[Platapus]

By using the numbers on a calculator and turning the display over, it is possible to write 118 English words. This can be expanded to 1,453 English words if a Hexadecimal display is used instead.

[Jimbuna]

Ants have a built-in FitBit.

[Platapus]

Ants have a built-in FitBit.


Are you confusing the animal with the technology?

[Platapus]

The longest tape measure in the world is gold plated and was made in 1956 by a surveyor and tape-maker, Justus Roe, and it measures 180 meters (600 feet)

[Jimbuna]

Are you confusing the animal with the technology?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9436-ants-use-pedometers-to-find-home/

[Platapus]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9436-ants-use-pedometers-to-find-home/


Quite a stretch to equate this with a "fitbit". :)

[Jimbuna]

Stressed men have altered proclivities.

[Platapus]

The difference between a Ruby and a Sapphire is the color.

[Jimbuna]

Crows hold grudges.

[Platapus]

in 1899, Letitia Mumford Geer invented the one-handed syringe, which allowed physicians to complete injections without assistance.

[Jimbuna]

Bill Gates has donated nearly half his fortune.

[Platapus]

there's no evidence that antibacterial soaps are any more effective at preventing illness than regular soap and water.

[Jimbuna]

You can always "see" your nose.

[Platapus]

Norbert Pearlroth spent 10 hours a day six days a week for 52 years in the New York Library doing research for Ripley's Believe it or not newspaper feature.

[Rockstar]

Julia McWilliams joined the OSS in 1942 and assisted in the development of a shark repellant which was supposedly meant to prevent sharks from detonating underwater mines. She later starred in a cooking show The French Chef in 1962 under the name she is most well known by, Julia Child.

[Jimbuna]

A restaurant in New York employs grandmas as chefs.

[Platapus]

The standard brick size in the United States is 2 ½ x 3 ¾ x 8 inches.

[Platapus]

The square hole in an anvil is called the Hardie hole and is naturally where one places their Hardie Tool.

[Jimbuna]

Shaq only ever made one three-pointer.

[Platapus]

Acorns are also called "oaknuts"

[Jimbuna]

America's first bank robber deposited the money back into the same bank.

[Platapus]

In spring, a single oak tree produces both male flowers (in the form of catkins) and small coon flowers (female flowers). Oak trees have male flowers on one part of their branch, and female flowers on another part of the same branch.

[Jimbuna]

Germany uncovers 2,000 tons of unexploded bombs every year.

[Platapus]

During the United States Civil War, it was common for the Laundress to get paid more than the soldiers

[Jimbuna]

Sharks existed before trees.

[Platapus]

The *average* age of a nun in the US is 80 years old.

[Jimbuna]

Detroit undercover cops in a drug ring once fought another group of undercover cops.

[Platapus]

In the movie The Wizard of Oz, the main character's name was Dorothy Gale

[Jimbuna]

The Silverback gorilla can lift almost a literal ton.

[Platapus]

In the US, if you are on Death Row, you only have a 13% chance of being executed.

[Jimbuna]

Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you get a combination that's never existed.

[Platapus]

Sarah Michelle Gellar can never go to McDonald's due to a lawsuit in 1981

[Jimbuna]

There is an immortal jellyfish.

[Jimbuna]

America accidentally dropped an atom bomb on South Carolina in 1958.

[Platapus]

The original name of Burger King was Insta-Burger King

[Jimbuna]

Baby blue whales grow 200 pounds per day.

[Jimbuna]

Actor Bill Murray uses a 1-800 number instead of an agent or manager.

[Aktungbby]

snoring is the third leading cause of divorce

[Platapus]

snoring is the third leading cause of divorce


Marriage is the leading cause

[Jimbuna]

Cats once delivered mail in Belgium.

[Jimbuna]

There's a device that creates energy from snowfall.

[Jimbuna]

A mermaid "documentary" once fooled so many people that the U.S. government had to issue a statement.

[Jimbuna]

Guinea pigs were once sacrificed wearing earrings and necklaces and wrapped like sushi.

[Jimbuna]

Hitler had a flatulence problem.

[Platapus]

A scientist who studies flatulence is called a flatologist.

[Jimbuna]

Maine is the only state that borders just one other state.

[Platapus]

Dubai is home to the worlds largest picture frame. Measuring a great 150m x 93m. It stands in position as a divide so that when you look through it you can see the old and new side of the country.

[Jimbuna]

The Twitter bird's official name Is Larry.

[Platapus]

William Halsey Jr. earned his naval aviator rating at 52. He is the oldest person to do so in the US Navy.


I guess you can teach an old bull a new trick. :salute:

[Jimbuna]

The longest book title contains 1,809 words.

[Jimbuna]

You can learn the High Valyrian language from Game of Thrones with an online course.