The Useless Facts Thread

[peppy]

Well it's pretty much self explanatory but for those of you who don't understand just post your useless facts here. I'll start it off.

My favourite pants are dirty.

your turn now!

[arby]

I don't have any favorite pants.

[pyroguy305]

I just ate a rice krispy treat that was in the shape of a flip-flop.

[Oneironaught]

I once gave mouth to mouth resuscitation to a cat (Burns would be proud).

I own over 2,300 console video games (not counting duplicates for any one system).

[BiVixen]

I hate the new post buttons...they lack words

[Abra]

The gestation period of a female guppy is 28 days.

[Oneironaught]

A pregnant goldfish is called a "twit".

[pyroguy305]

Peppy I just wanted to tell you that your avatar cracked me up when i read it..

[Infinityecho]

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
mmmmm

[Half/Dreaming]

When a fly is rested on a table and you swat at it, it does several backflips before flying away.

[Xox]

Pig orgasms last for 30 minutes.

[Burns]

o_O tough one to follow lol

I once gave mouth to mouth resuscitation to a cat (Burns would be proud).

Impressive!

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
mmmmm

now that's just wrong...



Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat-flap door.

[thegnome54]

I pretty much collect these.

Words
The dot on the letter 'i' is called a 'tittle'.
The plastic cover on the tip of a shoelace is called an 'aglet'.
The cavity at the base of a wine bottle is called the 'kick', or 'punt'.
The sparkling lights you see when you close your eyes are called 'phosphenes'.

Animals
Bovine animals are dichromates and incapable of seeing the color green.
Male seahorses carry the gestating offspring.
Bulls are not especially inclined to attack the color red.
Pale-faced saki monkeys are fugly as hell.
Starfish actually turn their stomachs inside out and insert them into the shells of their prey in order to digest them.

There is no such thing as a sugar rush.
There are more glial cells than neurons in the human brain.
If you place salt on your tongue after drying it completely, you will not taste anything.

You can drain your sinuses and relieve sinus pressure by alternately thumping your tongue up at your palate (pretty hard) and poking yourself between your eyebrows. The theory is, you end up wiggling a rigid structure which passes through your sinuses, and this drains them somehow. Hell if I know really, but it does seem to work.

The question mark (?) comes from Greek scribes, who once used the word 'questio' after each sentence to denote a question. This could be confusing for obvious reasons, so they resorted to using a 'q' on top of an 'o'. Over time, the 'q' became a squiggle and the 'o' a dot. Similarly, the exclamation point (!) comes from the Greek abbreviation of 'io'.

The 'ampersand' (&) got its name when school children were taught the symbol as the 27th letter of the alphabet, and said "X,Y,Z, and, per se, and" - "andperseand" was eventually evolved into "ampersand".

The octothorpe's peculiar name (#) comes from the old Norse word 'thorpe', meaning village or town - the symbol was used to indicate a "thorpe" surrounded by eight fields.

The SRS in "SRS airbag" stands for "supplementary restraint system".

The most deadly sport in the world, by sheer numbers, is fishing, with 24,000 worldwide deaths a year. Rate-wise, pole vaulting is the most deadly, with bull riding close behind.

Juggling is fun. Try it.

[Spartiate]

The average human is made of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, don't try and keep count of them...

[Pirate]

in LoZ ocarina of time, you can't use the hookshot to grab heart peices

(sure pissed ME off)

[peppy]

Im not wearing any socks.

[derb]

i recently bacame an insomniac. oh, and if your learning guitar, hey joe is a good first song to learn.

[Xox]

My laptop busted, Im on my friends.

[peppy]

im using a wireless mouse.

[mr.faded_glory]

They Got Rid of pop Up video but then brought it back as classic pop up video but they only play it once in a while.

[NeAvO]

I spike a certain DG's drink.

[Man of Steel]

I used to know a freaking TON of these, of the sort that Gnome posted. Now many have been forgotten. So, instead of totally useless facts, I'll post some quite possibly useFUL facts:

• You can make a compass with nothing but a magnetized needle and a dish of water, by simply placing the needle very carefully on the surface of the water. It will float as long as the dish is held steady, from the surface tension. and indicate magnetic north.
• In carbon steels, usually the last two digits indicate the carbon content. For example, 1095 high carbon steel contains approximately .95% carbon, and 5160 contains about .60% carbon.
• That old proverb you hear about moss growing on the north side of trees is perfectly true, in spite of what some will tell you. Unfortunately, the moss also grows on the south, east, and west sides of those same trees.
• Always remember that small hole on the front of your CD/DVD drive. If the drive motor ever fails, that hole is your friend. A paper clip bent straight can be inserted into that hole, to pop out the drive tray.
• A sharp knife is much safer than a dull knife, despite what you may have heard. A dull knife requires much more force to make a cut, and so is a lot more prone to slipping and injuring you. A sharp knife requires much less pressure, and can be controlled much easier, making it much less likely to slip. Also, a dull knife will not make a clean cut, but will tear and/or bruise flesh, whereas a sharp knife will produce a clean wound, with less potential for nasty infection and other problems. Along with a smaller, neater scar, if worse comes to worst.
• If your radiator springs a leak, you can crack an egg into it to temporarily plug the leak until you can get to a service station. It actually works.
• Coca-Cola will remove rust from bolts or parts if left to soak overnight.
• It is possible to open a glass bottled beer (or other glass bottled beverage) with just about anything, from a piece of copy paper to a ski.
• It is possible to sharpen a knife on a surprising number of things, from sandpaper, to the bottom of a ceramic mug, to my favorite, the top of a rolled-down car window.

More later, folks.

[peppy]

I sleep on a bed.

[derb]

ok following in the same theme as man of steel, im gonna tell you some things that you will NEED to know, or you WILL die. painfully.

>st nilus the elder, a monk who lived on mount sinai, actually forsaw the existence of aircraft, submarines, and telephones. in the 5th century.

patron saints

Taxi Drivers = Fiacre

thieves = Dismas

Teenagers (esp. girls) = Mark, Maria Goretti

Eczema = Antony the Abbot

Barren women = Anthony of Padua, Felicity

and im gonna leave it there, before people start thinking m some religious freak.

[one]

Im wearing hedphones...
WAIT, where did they go?? omg AHHHHHH!
oh hehe there on my ears
They make m feel the warmz