Author Topic: Interesting and Useless Facts (Read 9247 times)

Bob · « **on:** February 24, 2006, 12:33:17 AM »

Post up your Interesting and most likely Useless Facts in here.

Booya.

It costs about $37,500 and takes about two years to fully train a guide dog

Drew · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2006, 12:49:40 AM »

Spam was invented in 1937.

Skywalker · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2006, 12:55:27 AM »

The Phomnaneal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rselt can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Drew · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2006, 01:28:23 AM »

At first I thought you were just drunk. Then I had my mind blown.

Skywalker · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2006, 07:25:43 AM »

"Scientific America" carried the first magazine automobile ad in 1898. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH, invited readers to "dispense with a horse".

In Somalia, Africa, it's been decreed illegal to carry old chewing gum stuck on the tip of your nose.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber

In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

enndogger · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2006, 06:04:02 PM »

44.27% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Ryan · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2006, 08:12:15 PM »

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.

Colezy · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2006, 12:10:59 AM »

Mikal and Bob are gay

Ryan · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2006, 12:50:40 AM »

It says "useless facts" not "useful facts to know so as to avoid people" Come on now Colezy...

Colezy · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2006, 09:32:48 PM »

i'm so sorry

Bob · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2006, 11:21:50 PM »

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick.

To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.

A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.

A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the sun in slightly less than 88 days.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Pornomonkey · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2006, 07:46:57 PM »

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20

Cat's urine glows under a black light

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

Ryan · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2006, 08:42:02 PM »

Quote from: Pornomonkey

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

Think it's been tested??

Pornomonkey · « **Reply #13 on:** March 02, 2006, 10:33:11 PM »

Yet to find a worthy patient is this dismal town...

Drew · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2006, 10:45:12 PM »

I would have thought in a dismal town there would be more (un)worthy patients to try to kill.