The thread of Useless Facts

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Also Chrysler used Mitsubishi engines past the 80's. The Laser had 4G63's. The Avenger had a mItsubishi motor I am thinking. Maybe still today. :)
 
Scientists in the UK conducted a study to see if animals gain regional accents.
 
ryanb98
Scientists in the UK conducted a study to see if animals gain regional accents.

Why? I think this statement proves that the human thirst for knowledge is a curse. We are a world going into, or already are in crisis, and we are studying the accents of animals. Really?
 
1. Your height is equal to the length of your arms stretched out, fingertip to fingertip.
2. You can't focus your eyes on a blue light.
3. China invented the first pizza. Italy then made it better.
 
1. Your height is equal to the length of your arms stretched out, fingertip to fingertip.
2. You can't focus your eyes on a blue light.
3. China invented the first pizza. Italy then made it better.

That, I didn't know.

But surely you knew the sun was a star.:odd:

I didn't actually, but you learn new things everyday 👍

Here's a few more for you'se.

16. When placed in warm milk, raisins re-plump into grapes.
17. The metal backs of iPods are made from recycled zippers.
18. The Z in Jay-Z’s name stands for “Zeppidemus.”
19. The original name for the laptop computer was “Hinged Smart Slab.”
20. Clouds cannot travel south southwest.
21. Peru and the moon weigh the same amount.
22. Reading backwards for twenty minutes burns the same amount of calories as walking a half-mile.
23. The average person inhales 3 pounds of spider webs in his or her lifetime.
24. If you take the first letter of each word in the Monopoly board game instruction manual, they spell out an X-rated sentence.
25. The glossy paper from the backs of stickers can be used to soothe sunburn.
26. If you wave a magnet at the lower left corner of a vending machine you'll receive a free soda (proven fact for me, this does work) :sly:
27. On a dare, former President Rutherford B. Hayes declared war on Chile for seventeen minutes
28. Dolphins kill more people annually than sharks and influenza combined.
29. Jean shorts were invented three weeks prior to the invention of regular jeans.
30. In Austria, the traditional Christmas colors are not red and greed, but purple and clear.
 
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Jagdrag just triple posted :dopey:
if you leave a boiled egg in coke for a year the shell will be eaten completely away.
 
Not sure how true this is if at all, saw it on some random picture but,

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

Most likely a joke though

Anyway, I've done this one (to my race car, not my street car)

WD40 on a paper towel can remove rubber spots on your car
 
There is more water in the Amazon then the next top 3 rivers combined.

In China a cheers is called a gambei which literally translates as 'dry glass'.

Einstein owned identical suits so that it would save time not having to choose what to wear.
 
28. Dolphins kill more people annually than sharks and influenza combined.

This must include killer whales. Yes it should:
Killer Whales are cetaceans which belong to the order Delphinidae. This means that they are “Dolphins” regardless the word “whale” is in its name.

Einstein owned identical suits so that it would save time not having to choose what to wear.

Actually he also had only white shirts and the same ties for the same reason.
 
Denmark was the first country to legalise pornography, doing so in 1969.
 
31. The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
32. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
33. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
34. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
35. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. (Who didn't know this one?)
36. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television :dunce:
37. Almonds are members of the peach family.
38. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
39. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
40. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes :crazy:
41. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
42. Horses can't vomit.
43. Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
44. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
45. A whale's penis is called a dork. (This one I knew, ha)
46. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Eh!
47. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
48. Pearls melt in vinegar.
49. Turtles can breathe through their butts. (Awesome)
50. The youngest pope was 11 years old.(I wonder if he played with the young boys too, ha)
 
Watt2159
"Dammit Im mad" is "Dammit Im mad" spelled backwards

So is racecar

In the rulebook for FIRST robotics, it says to blame the programmer for any issues (not a direct quote)
 
Roush_fan_99
So is racecar

In the rulebook for FIRST robotics, it says to blame the programmer for any issues (not a direct quote)

Im in first robotics
 
All facts are useless until they are needed. It's just that some facts are not needed very often. These facts are usually the most entertaining.
 
beeblebrox237
All facts are useless until they are needed. It's just that some facts are not needed very often. These facts are usually the most entertaining.

Whoa! A fact about facts being useless that's useless according to what it just said! Now that's definately a catch-22

Schwartz38
Im in first robotics
Cool
 
Did you know that if your phone (or any other electronic device) is exposed to water, you can dry it by filling a bowl with uncooked rice and submerge your phone within it overnight? The rice will draw out the moisture out of it...
 
I KNew that but never trid it with my old phone which have been sunked in the sink




but i thought it might be weird



and thanks to my friend who let me knew this
 
It is never actually opposite day.

If it isn't, then it isn't.
If it is, the opposite of it being Opposite Day is that it isn't.

Therefore, whenever someone implies it is opposite day, they're lying. ;)
 
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