So the name prett much says it all. Give me some of the most useless(or borderline useless) facts you can! One for each post so that the chain can go on for some time.
I'll start.
On avarage there are 250 seeds on a McDonalds Angus Deluxe
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
To avoid being accused of looking at pics of a skimpy little asian(on some guys background for a youtube profile) I had to quickly change the tab as my father came around the corner.
On April 1st 1998, Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
On May 21st 2010, n0t_u visited this thread and was generally apathetic until the above post. The above at first was uninteresting until it was read entirely. Thus on May 21st 2010 n0t_u came to the conclusion that in 1998 there were aproximately thousands of American people who should have possibly been removed from the genepool, some perhaps were simply being witty and thus were alright. This could possibly expain the panic about 2012.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
lol yea...but they will frustrate you so much that all the bonus attributes you've acquired from them will dissipate into nothingness. Then there will be Stress.
What everyone now knows as "duct tape" actually started out as "duck tape". During the Vietnam war, it was used to waterproof supplies and is known to repel water like the feathers of a duck. In fact, it is useless when trying to repair a duct.
If placed into a Subway toaster, nacho flavored Doritos can be covered in cheese and meats to create restaurant style nachos. If you use cool ranch flavor, however, they will catch fire.
Although I witnessed this on three separate occassions, I cannot explain it.
If you do, do it when your boss is gone. It doesn't so much burst into flame (not enough oxygen) as it does smolder and create this thick, noxious black smoke. When you open the door it starts to actually burn, unless you put it out quick. Also, the smoke stinks.
Here's another good one: As a boy, Mel Brooks got his face chewed off by wild dogs.
hcordes wrote:that game is rated MA and i am pretty sure you aren't 18 yet.... i'm surprised you parent's let you play that game lol
90% of kids report that thier parents never pay any attention to game ratings when purchased. Yet 62% of those parents will take away a game they see on the news for being 'bad' (regardless of the actual content).
A human being's sense of hearing is so acute that if we were capable of hearing sounds any softer, we would be able to hear molecules rubbing together. And yet, I still can't make out what my girlfriend is muttering under her breath.
During the first world war everything german was hated, in fact it wasn't uncommon for americans to beat sacks of daschunds to death simply for being a german breed. It is a small miracle that the breed still exists in America.
halonachos wrote:During the first world war everything german was hated, in fact it wasn't uncommon for americans to beat sacks of daschunds to death simply for being a german breed. It is a small miracle that the breed still exists in America.
Also, the North sea was once called the German sea.
A man once tied several weather balloons to a lawnchair, hoping to float about 9 metres above his garden. He actually went up about 16,000 feet and was arrested for crossing into controlled airspace illegally.
P4NC4K3 wrote:A man once tied several weather balloons to a lawnchair, hoping to float about 9 metres above his garden. He actually went up about 16,000 feet and was arrested for crossing into controlled airspace illegally.
This is true. I remember reading that in the paper a few years back.
There are weird similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
* Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. * Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
* Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives. * Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford * Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
*Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. * Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. * Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. * Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. * Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.' Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'
* Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater. * Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".
also the best place to get these is post an Infographic thread on 4chan, then retreat to a sane website for half an hour or the /tg/ board which is "safe for work" aparenty
VikingScott wrote:I have downloaded vassal and the 40K bit and am about get skype. Thats a fact.
Btw is skype free to use, unlimited time etc.?
Skype is free and unlimited to make VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls. In otherwords, calling other PCs is free, calling real phones costs money.
Gwar! wrote:Standard numbering on dice with an even amount of sides results in opposite facings always equaling the highest number of the die plus one.
However, d20s tend to be the dies that break this standard the most. Not discrediting your fact just adding another one on top of it ;P
Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:If you sneeze with your eyes open they pop out.
Pics! Pics or it's a lie!
and BTW, the war with the least recorded fatalities was the Slovenian Independence war (AKA the Ten Day War). c. 62 were killed, 328 wounded and 4,944 taken prisoner (on the Yugoslav side). The war with the most mortalities was WW2, with an estimated 60-72,000 deaths.
Vikings were famous for many things; trade, pillaging, but there are some things that missed most history books.
Vikings buttered their hair to keep it shiny, converted to christianity for trade purposes, and most importantly came up with the idea of "Sanctuary"(the act in which a person is protected from harm whilst inside a church).
My family lineage traces back to a member of the American Revolutionary forces. A little bit past that and I hit french canadian, irish, german, and Norse. Most of northern europe basically.
I also have a relative buried in the same graveyard as Benjamin Franklin so that's another useless fact.
halonachos wrote:My family lineage traces back to a member of the American Revolutionary forces. A little bit past that and I hit french canadian, irish, german, and Norse. Most of northern europe basically.
I also have a relative buried in the same graveyard as Benjamin Franklin so that's another useless fact.
Interestingly enough.... same here on all counts, except the canadian part. And members of my family fought on both sides of the war....
One of my legs is exactly 1 inch longer than the other one. Also, If I make an L-shape with my index finger and my thumb on my left hand, the distance between the tips is exactly 6 inches (handy for predicting assault ranges). Wierd how its so precise in inches. I guess my creator was a stickler for precise measuring, and doesn't use metric.
The reason we have 24 hours in a day comes from Ancient Egypt, who, in the summer, measured time at might by measuring the passing of 12 stars past a plumb line.
The reason we have 60 second and 60 minutes comes from Ancient Babylon, who operated on a base 60 system of counting rather than base 10.
I am 3/4 Italian, 1/8 English, 1/16 Russian and 1/16 Korean.
In North Carolina you only need to take two Vocational Drafting Classes in High School to become a certified Draftsman. I don't know if it carries over to other states though, haven't tried yet.
c34r34lk1ll3r wrote:Glass is debated to be either solid or liquid.
Not true. People think it may be a liquid as the glass in really old buildings tends to be thicker at the bottom than the top.
Truth is that glass manufacturing techniques weren't too hot way back when, and they ran a bit when still cooling off. The panes were then put in the windows with the tihcker end to the bottom as it was easier to fit them like that!
NEW FACT: The world's first 'motion picture' was taken with a large number of cameras which were triggered by a tripwire. A horse was then run through the series of tripwires, taking a series of still images that could be flicked through in order to show the horse running. The actual purpose of the exercise was to establish once and for all if a galloping horse lifts all four legs off the ground at any point (they do). This apparently was a long-standing debate between people with too much time on their hands
Tom Waits was living in his car parked behind the studio during the recording sessions for his early works. Man that guy has a had a rough and awesome life, and you can hear it in his cigarette/whiskey-tortured voice.
If you stand on an aluminum can (assuming you have balance) it won't crush (assuming you aren't huge) until you tap it on the side, at which point you have a perfectly crushed can smashed flat. It can hold up my 140 pounds with no problem standing on it with one foot. The slightest tap turns it into a pancake of aluminum. Try it. It's awesome.
1. Squirrels can't breathe thru their mouths.
2. Male deer use females as "decoys".
3. Iguanas and Komodo Dragons have 2 penises.
4. It cost me alot less to play 40K than MTG.
5. There is no "extra-sneaky castro".
6. Through electricity, salt can be converted to Chlorine.
7. The Mayan God of flatulance is "Ikki"
8. The Mayan God of Rain is "Chak" (the goggle eyed).
9. Smoking "seeds and stems" does not make you sterile.
10. Only the truly nasty can cook toilet paper. The rest of us just "brown" one side.
Gwar! wrote:Spongbob Squarepants is a rip off of Winnie the Pooh.
Another Fragment of my childhood is gone because of this. I was little when I was watching Winnie the Pooh and around 10 when Spongebob started coming on. You just killed the remnants of my childhood.
Through the communicative law of algebra and whats stated above we can determine that a 2 lb weight weighs exactly 1 hamster.
A fully loaded Land Raider weighs approximately 89,287 hamsters.
That's it. I'm officially using "Hamsters" as a measurement of weight from now on. That Land Raider line was just too damn funny, and I'm now picturing a Land Raider made of Hamsters rolling across a battlefield
Mokum records achieved Chart Success all over the world in 1995 with Technohead and their track "I Wanna Be a Hippy" and the following single "Happy Birthday".
They were one of the best producers of Dutch Gabba circa 1993-1999 and have recently been re-established.
U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes had his childhood home just down the road from where I am. He is famous for ordering federal troops to fire on striking railroad workers, killing about 70 men. His childhood home was donated as an orphanage after his death. I wonder where the orphans came from?
Guitardian wrote:U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes had his childhood home just down the road from where I am. He is famous for ordering federal troops to fire on striking railroad workers, killing about 70 men. His childhood home was donated as an orphanage after his death. I wonder where the orphans came from?
Probably Canada.
Speaking of Canada, Canadian bacon is just a thick slice of ham.
What happens in Arkansas really REALLY should stay in Arkansas.
Crayola crayons used to have a warning on the box to not leave them around unattended children who may choke on them. If it was me I would have inserted 'dumb children who eat crayons' just to open the market up a bit, and encourage Darwinism.
Sharks and grizzly bears often travel together in packs. It's because of their teeth. That's what makes them 'Nature's best friends'. Also Sharks often explode because their lungs are made out of M80s, this is usually to attract a mate, but sometimes, it mistakenly attracts GIANT KILLER BEES instead. I learned this watching Space Ghost so it must be true, and yet very true.
I will state my fact in song
Who lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea? "Spongebob Squarepants!" Who Died In An Oil Spill because of BP? "Spongebob Squarepants
Samus_aran115 wrote:The belly button is one of the smelliest places in the human body. Just stick your pinky in there for half a second and smell it! *Vomits*
"Classic Literature" is often times seen as boring, unentertaining, and stupid when someone has to read it for an english class.
(I'm looking at you A Separate Piece!)
Samus_aran115 wrote:The belly button is one of the smelliest places in the human body. Just stick your pinky in there for half a second and smell it! *Vomits*
Most... people... bathe
Yeah, but how often do you actually go in there and clean it out instead of just going over it?
Samus_aran115 wrote:The belly button is one of the smelliest places in the human body. Just stick your pinky in there for half a second and smell it! *Vomits*
Most... people... bathe
Yeah, but how often do you actually go in there and clean it out instead of just going over it?
Believe it or not I scrub it out with a Q-tip when I jump in the shower every morning. I find myself having a mild obsession with hygene though.
From ground, with our current technological level, it's easier to detect planets outside of our solar system than it is to photograph Pluto.
Golden Eyed Scout wrote:"Classic Literature" is often times seen as boring, unentertaining, and stupid when someone has to read it for an english class.
(I'm looking at you A Separate Piece!)
I'm gonna ruin it for you, in the end... their homosexual for each other. How could you not see that coming though... Secret societies? All-boy prep school? Tightly gripping "wood" only to get a sudden splash about the face and chest?
"I threw my hip against his, catching him by surprise, and he was instantly down, definitely pleased. This is why he liked me so much. When I jumped on top of him, my knees on his chest, he couldn't ask for anything better. We struggled in some equality for a while, and then when we were sure we were too late for dinner, we broke off."
Seriously man, flagrant as all get out. I'd stamp your book heretical and burn it in front of your teacher. Then go read something way more interesting Walden is about a crazy guy that decides to live in a shack in the woods, give that one a try.
They should put a warning on those things that says "If your IQ is less than 100, please don't put these in your ear. Oh wait, actually, go ahead, you paid for them"
I had a friend who went to the hospital because he was cleaning his ears in the car (TRUE STORY). Idiot.
Anyway,on to useless facts.
ADD is now the largest brain disorder in history, followed by depression and RLS
A.D.D. is most often diagnosed in school age children..... Hmmm kids not paying attention in class..... how come this disorder didn't exist when I was in school?
Nowadays autism or aspergers has replaced A.D.D. as the trendy new way of parents to blame their childrens bad behavior on something other than poor parenting.
In Italian, "Ciao!" means both 'HI!' and 'LATER!' as an informal way to address a friend when coming or going. Also "pronto!" means 'hello!"... which confused me when I first got there and my guy kept answering the phone saying "Pronto!", and I had to ask him in my broken Italian/French hybrid... our only language in common... why he always sounded so impatient when he answered the phone. Gotta love the humor of language barriers.
A couple of other funny language barrier ones:
'prego' to United Statesians means a type of pasta sauce, in Italian is means 'welcome' or sometimes 'you're welcome'
'Nova' was a Chevrolet car made in the 80s. They couldn't understand why it wasn't selling at all oversees in france or certain french-speaking countries in Africa.
The reason that it failed is that 'Nova' sounds to them like 'No Va' which, in French, means 'doesn't go'.
Chestnut won the 92nd Annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating six-time defending champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi by consuming 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes, which set a new world record. The following year, he successfully defended his title by winning a 5 hot dog eat-off after tying Kobayashi in consuming 59 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. On July 4, 2009, Chestnut outlasted Kobayashi again, by consuming a new world record of 68 hot dogs and buns and winning his third consecutive title. On July 4th, 2010, Chestnut took home his 4th consecutive Mustard Belt eating 54 dogs and buns.
I ACTUALLY ATE A HOT DOG WHILE WATCHING THIS LIVE ON ESPN! It happened this morning! I'm gonna start making Joey Chestnut fan t-shirts. How awesome are sports?! I'm still awestruck, not just by the number of hot dogs, but by the fact that this even exists and is televised on ESPN.
The place where I buy my warhammer is located in a shopping center called Loehman's Plaza. This was built on top of a german POW camp that housed many members of Germany's Afrika Korp.
Some of those POW's enjoyed the state so much that they moved to it after the end of the war, although most of them went back to Germany.
They publish Nutrition Facts on bags of snack chips. I think if you are eating snack chips nutrition is pretty low on your priority list. Mine have 10% of my daily value of Thiamin, Niacin, and Phosphorus, 17% sodium, 12% carbohydrate! All that goodness from a 2oz. bag of 'flamin hot munchies'! YESS!
Samus_aran115 wrote:Omnomnom.
Seriously, I much prefer the multi-colored sherbert to just one color. The variety makes me feel good about my purchase
Oh, and color=flavor. It's like when people say "flavored candle" but they mean "scented".
haha,
flavored candle? no one says flavo- *hears mother saying flavored candle over phone* damnit
Another useless fact, magic johnson overcame aides, but that's impossible....I think some super secret science can cure famous people of their nasty diseases, but they don't want to tell normal people about it...What do you guys think?
helgrenze wrote:Well he did survive high school with the name Earvin.....
In other news, people are finding that digital cameras are complete crap no matter how many megapixels they have. People are actually starting to use film again. That makes me excited because now I can get those film canisters
I shower once a week and flush once a day. Water is not my friend... but back to the more interesting useless facts:
The back of the one-dollar bill is considered to be one of the most intricate compilations of latice-work, symbology, and just plain crazyness. Did you know there used to be little owls hiding in the lattice stuff?
I am almost out of beer.
As far as slightly more interesting useless facts:
There are 93 steps from the first floor to the third floor of the Portland Public Library in Portland Oregon. There are actually 4 floors but between 2 and 3 they have staff offices and all that cryptic stuff that libraries like to keep out of the public. The building is huge, frequented mostly by homeless who need to take a dump and school children on field trips, and you can hear echoes of the footsteps of visitors when they walk in all the way on the top floor because of its dome-and-circle design. SHHHHHhhhh
SyFy Original Movies suck.
In contrast, SyFy Original Series are incredible. How can you not fall in love with the characters from Eureka and Warehouse 13?
Did you know that if you stare at the sun just as it sets, you can see a green flash? And feel a sharp blow to the head, and hear the faint hum of me driving away in your new Tesla Roadster?
The exact cause of this phenomenon is unknown, but its thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car.
drukawski wrote:Did you know that if you stare at the sun just as it sets, you can see a green flash? And feel a sharp blow to the head, and hear the faint hum of me driving away in your new Tesla Roadster?
The exact cause of this phenomenon is unknown, but its thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car.
Lemon Juice traditionally works as invisible ink, but one man took this too far and tried to rob a bank without wearing a mask. He thought that covering his face in Lemon Juice would make him invisible
About a hundred people a week go to new york or LA trying to be either rockstars or models, about 1 in 50000 make it. This is where you get burger king workers and cable guys from.
In March 2010, during a US Congressional Armed Services Committee hearing concerning the buildup of US military forces on the island of Guam, U.S. House of Representatives member Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr. (Incumbent, Democrat, Georgia's 4th Dist) asked Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, if the addition of military forces to the island could potentially cause the island to CAPSIZE due to the islands small size. He went on to say "...and uhh and also things like the uhh environment, the sensitive areas of the uhh environment, coral reefs and those kind of things, and I know that... you know... lots of people don't like to think about that, but you know... we didn't think about global warming either, and uhhhmmm... now we do have to think about it."
Guam, an island, capsizing... yeah, wow.
The video below provides a good chuckle.
Here's a nice one (although that last one is a tough act to follow)...
When life gets you down, just remember:
There are countless different kinds of cookies in the world... and they are ALL GOOD!
Oh yeah, which reminds me; Pot evidently does not have long-term effects according to pot smoking experts.
My uncle is a top national patent examiner and has several degrees. He's worked for the government on numerous top secret projects and done invaluable work towards to advancement of physics. He's also a pot smoker! It has absolutely no effects on you in the long term. It's not addictive, it's not dangerous. It doesn't cause lung cancer, it doesn't make you stupid. It just makes you feel good.
I don't smoke pot, nor do I support the legalization of it, but I will admit that it's totally harmless. The reason I don't support it's legalization is merely because it's too complicated right now. It would do more harm than good right now.
Before all-porcelain false teeth were perfected in the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers following a battle. Teeth extracted from U.S. Civil War soldier cadavers were shipped to England by the barrel to dentists.
*Runs outside, falls to one knees and rises fist to the sky* "DAMN YOU METALIFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*Runs outside, falls to one knees and rises fist to the sky* "DAMN YOU METALIFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Beer kept dark ages peasants healthy because the water was all tainted and they were safer just being drunk all day than actually drinking the water, plus it gave them much needed carbohydrates for their toilsome workday. Yup, beer is the cure for bubonic plague! I should really turn off the History Channel on my days off... it only encourages me.
Guitardian wrote:Beer kept dark ages peasants healthy because the water was all tainted and they were safer just being drunk all day than actually drinking the water, plus it gave them much needed carbohydrates for their toilsome workday. Yup, beer is the cure for bubonic plague! I should really turn off the History Channel on my days off... it only encourages me.
Well whatever it was, drinking beer instead of water helped keep them alive. I dunno I didn't pay THAT much attention to the show... just got the gist of it, then went and had a pint.
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