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The Useless Fact Thread!
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| biznology |
Alright, so i just had the best idea on the john. Why not make a thread where everyone can post some useless fact off the top of their head, that:
a)most people wouldnt know, and
b)is of little use to anyone, besides being cool trivia.
Here are mine(2):
-2% of you body mass is compsed of genetic material(no not THAT kind, DNA).
-and a large portion of your daily nutrional intake is composed of dead cells.
i know, thats more physiology than you planned on learning - now have a whack at it- late/ |
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| {b.s.e.} |
-A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and
houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
-The Sun is colossal. It contains 99.8 percent of the total mass of the solar system. More than one million Earths would be required to match its volume.
-The Sun isn't round. It is flattened on the top and the bottom.
-Less than 50 percent of American adults understand that Earth orbits the Sun yearly, according to a basic science survey :D
-In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies (why does this not surprise me? :p)
-Surprisingly, electronic or "cyberspace" harassment is not yet a Federal crime, nor is it illegal in most states.
-The "cheek stroke" gesture in Greece, Italy, and Spain means "attractive." In Croatia and Bosnia, it means "success."
-In Kentucky, it is against the law to throw eggs at a public speaker.
ha. no wonder i was chased out of there so fast.. ;) |
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| BeatFreak |
My friend did a project in one of her classes and found an article on obese women. It turns out that in this study of about 200 or so, 50% of obese women admitted to having sexual preferences other than men.
Now when you see 2 fat girls there may be a good chance that one of them swings the other way.
It was in a medical journal. Take it how you want it. It's just another fact I thought I'd share. |
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| jinxed84 |
- a pigs orgasm lasts for 30 mins
im pretty sure thats what it was i saw it on the discovery channel awhile back and for obvious reasons it stuck in my head
my friends still rag on me for knowing this i doubt youll ever forget it though |
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| yujie__ |
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove
Boogers are natural air filters
1 in every 8 million is born w/ 3 nipples
Nestlé is the largest company in Switzerland, yet more than 98 percent of its revenue comes from outside the country
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
The sale of Vodka makes up 10% of the Russians government income
Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth everyday
A person from Glasgow is called a Glaswegian
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings)
A temperature of 70 million degrees Celsius was generated at Princeton University in 1978. This was during a fusionism experiment and is the highest man-made temperature ever
111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell
50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays
51% of turns are right turns
57% of British school kids think Germany is the most boring country in Europe
7% of Americans think Elvis is alive
9% of Americans reported having been in the presence of a ghost
90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right
You have about 300,000,000,000,000 (3 hundred trillion) cells in your body, each one capable of killing you (think cancer)
Americans spend more time at shopping malls than anywhere else outside their homes and jobs
Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up
i have more but dont have time to post it all. |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by yujie__
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell
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heh i think im becoming more like that everyday...sumtimes its hard for me to find meaning in life...
anyway, heres my contribution:
http://www.uselessfacts.net/
a whole site dedicated to providing useless information :D
sum useless legal facts i got from there:
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the house.
Christmas was once illegal in England.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.
except that for the source of all these facts it says "not available"...dont know if i can trust them :p |
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| DJ Chrono |
At the time of this post there were 766,466,420 internet users worldwide.
The fastest internet growing countries are 1)India 2)Indonesia 2)Mexico.
The songs Rank1-Airwave, Blank and Jones-Beyond Time, and The Mystery-Mystery all sound like the same song. |
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| Xavier |
| quote: | Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
-In Kentucky, it is against the law to throw eggs at a public speaker.
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That would mean it is LEGAL for someone to throw rocks, tomatoes, , nails, hammers, dildos, tennis balls, cucumbers, etc (Anything that is not an egg) |
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| {b.s.e.} |
| quote: | Originally posted by Xavier
That would mean it is LEGAL for someone to throw rocks, tomatoes, , nails, hammers, dildos, tennis balls, cucumbers, etc (Anything that is not an egg) |
lmao true that. i wonder if you could argue that point in court, after you gave some politician a concussion. ;) |
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| biznology |
| yeah but why would you wanna go to Kentucky? even the University of Kentucky is in Cincinatti, Ohio...late/ |
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| Fraggle |
| heheheh...haven't read the thread yet... |
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| Mr.Mystery |
1. If you will scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, the amount of acoustic energy that you will produce will be enough to warm up one cup of coffee. (Yay, coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
2. If you will continuously fart for 6 years and 9 months, the quantity of gas that you will produce will be enough to create energy equal to blast of a nuclear bomb.
3. Upon pumping over blood in body human heart creates pressure sufficient for throwing blood for 10 metres. (Whee!)
4. Pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (I wanna be a pig!)
5. You will loose 150 calories if you will smash your head against the wall for an hour.
6. An ant can lift weight 50 times greater than its own and pull weight greater than its own 30 times. And when ant is poisoned by chemicals it always falls on its right a side.
7. Cockroach is capable to live 9 days without it's head. Then it will starve to death.
8. Male mantis is not capable to copulate when it has a head. Thats why the mantis' copulation begins right after the female tears off the male's head. (I still wanna be a pig!)
9. Some lion species can copulate up to 50 times per day. (I STILL wanna be a pig! It's the quality, not the quantity!)
10. Butterfly tastes food with its legs. (Yuk!)
11. The elephants - only animals that can't jump. (Maybe it's better to them, huh?)
12. Cats urine shines in ultraviolet illumination.
13. Straus' eye is bigger that its brain. (I know such people...)
14. Starfish doesn't have a brain. (I know people like that aswell!)
15. All polar bears are left-handed. (I wonder how they found that out!)
16. Humans and dolphins are the only species that can have sex just for the pleasure of it. |
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