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electro funk
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Useless Facts Thread

i always love hearing cool useless facts and i always love hearing new ones. here is one i like to get things started :

on average 76 people die every year playing twiser


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MarkT
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there's a weekly article in the Toronto Star that you might enjoy

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/247669

quote:
10 things we learned this week

Aug 19, 2007 04:30 AM
John Sakamoto

Some squirrels can raise the temperature of their tails to confuse and ward off rattlesnakes. (newscientist.com)

The Swedish government has collected $276,500 in fines this year from 2,252 people caught urinating in public. (thelocal.se)

Moviegoers ate 45.3 per cent more fresh popcorn "when it was given to them in large containers." Given stale, 14-day-old popcorn, they still ate 33.6 per cent more "when eating from a large container than a medium-size container." (foodpsychology.cornell.edu)

When it comes to comfort food, women prefer items such as candy and chocolates, while men favour pizza, pasta, steak or casseroles. Also, women tended to feel "guiltier than men about their comfort food choices." (Cornell University)

The first commercial CDs to roll off the conveyor belt 25 years ago were a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony and the similarly highbrow The Visitors by ABBA. (BBC)

To calculate the number of photos you should take to get a group shot (of fewer than 20 people) in which no one's eyes are closed: divide the number of people by three (assuming you have good light). (popsci.com)

The "rarest and most exotic domestic cat," the Ashera, costs $22,000 (U.S.). It is a "blend of the exotic bloodlines of the African Serval and the Asian Leopard Cat, subsequently bred with a domestic cat." The price doesn't include delivery. (lifestylepets.com)

The image in a campaign for Virginia tourism – two thumbs and index fingers making the shape of a heart – is a symbol associated with the Gangster Disciples, "one of the most violent of four African-American gangs that hang out on the south side of Chicago." The campaign is being altered. (content.hamptonroads.com)

The "poop" in "poop deck" is "derived from the Latin puppis, which means 'stern,' or the ship's rear section (insert punchline here). "It apparently was first transmogrified into 'poop' by William Caxton in 1489." (mentalfloss.com)

Friday is National Waffle Day. Aug. 24 is the 138th anniversary of the date on which Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, N.Y., received a patent for a "device to bake waffles." (mrbreakfast.com)

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Re: Useless Facts Thread

quote:
Originally posted by electro funk
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You're a useless fact!!!


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Re: Re: Useless Facts Thread

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
You're a useless fact!!!


better than just being useless like u


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quote:
Originally posted by electro funk
better than just being useless like u


Dude, you totally blew it...

You were supposed to reply:

"Your face is a useless fact!!!"

Oh man... Where have you been?!? Cro_Addict is going to have a fit.


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I did a project on FedEx when i was in college here are some fun facts about the company:-


FedEx Fun Facts

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Nearly 100 of FedEx's 2,300 pilots are women, giving FedEx one of the highest percentages of female pilots in the airline industry.

FedEx shipped 17 classic Ferraris, each worth several million dollars, to Brussels, Belgium, and back to the U.S. for a car show.

FedEx shipped docking plates from Houston to Orlando, Fla., for Apollo-Soyuz, the historic 1975 American-Russian space rendezvous.

In 1974, FedEx helped bring Jaws to life by carrying the star, a 13-foot tiger shark from Florida, in a 15-foot casket to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where the film was shot.

Michael Jackson's sets, props and sound equipment were flown via FedEx from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany, for his 1992 "Dangerous" tour.

When a New England storm slowed down fast food, McDonald's chartered a FedEx plane for an emergency re-supply of special sauce.

FedEx delivered 12 decorated eggs for the 1977 White House Easter Egg Roll.

FedEx airlifted hundreds of mistreated birds, monkeys and tortoises from Grenada to Florida for rehabilitation.

A Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter weighing 11,000 lbs. flew via FedEx to Narita, Japan.

A FedEx charter carried a 5-ton communication satellite, equipment and engineering crew from Los Angeles to a remote site in China.

The Japanese hired FedEx to ship them planeloads of fresh cherries.

A North Dakota bait wholesaler ships worms, and leeches to bait shops across the country via FedEx.

Among the rare and valuable animals to travel on FedEx planes: white tigers, a white rhinoceros, pandas and thoroughbred horses.

FedEx shipped a windmill from Denmark.

Indy racecars traveled via FedEx to Brisbane, Australia.
On separate flights, FedEx has shipped Armand Hammer's art collection and bottled dirt from Houston

Source


More here

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Useless Facts Thread

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Dude, you totally blew it...

You were supposed to reply:

"Your face is a useless fact!!!"

Oh man... Where have you been?!?


shit! i thought i had it right too. ive been around man. just not as much as usual. trying to be somewhat good these days


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Re: Re: Re: Re: Useless Facts Thread

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Dude, you totally blew it...

You were supposed to reply:

"Your mom is a useless fact!!!"


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I encourage everyone to check out these random facts. I bet you can't read them all in one sitting.. hell.. a week!

http://members.cox.net/mpomoryfunst...docs/trivia.htm


quote:
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Do you work for Fed-Ex? :P


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  • Creator Doug TenNapel provided the voice of Earthworm Jim in the first two games and Dan Castellaneta played Jim in Clay Fighter 63 1/3, Earthworm Jim 3D and the animated series.
  • A Japanese animation adaptation of four of Baum's Oz books known as Oz no Mahoutsukai was created in 1986.
  • Nepal is of roughly trapezoidal shape, 800 kilometres (500 mi) long and 200 kilometres (125 mi) wide, with an area of 147,181 square kilometres (56,827 sq mi).
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  • Spoons is a fast-paced card game of matching and bluffing played with an ordinary pack of playing cards and several ordinary kitchen spoons or various other objects. Spoons is played in multiple rounds and each player's objective is to be the first in the round to have four of a kind, or to not be the last to grab a spoon.
  • Pokemon has been accused to advocating cockfighting.


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quote:
Originally posted by kotsy
Do you work for Fed-Ex? :P


Yes i did for FedEx Ground like 2 years.

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