Useless Facts

[MDiver01]

1)I started this thread

2)In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.

[verdugo]

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

[verdugo]

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

[M150]

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.

[verdugo]

Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

[CrzyMarcX]

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an one is Afghanistan.

[vasili denisov]

Some chinese used to believe that contact with poison would cause silver to darken, so they used silver chopsticks because of suspicions that servants, especially those in the employ of rival concubines, might try to kill them off.

[Limp]

When reading vasili denisov's name... I just say VD, then giggle.

[CarsyCarsten]

"Steam" sucks ass.

[feith]

cat urine reacts to black light.

[CarsyCarsten]

My dick reacts to Elisha Cuthbert!

[Dazmguk]

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

[smahoo]

Alice Cooper was once elected as Homecoming Queen at the University of Houston

[A-Money]

Theodore Roosevelt was the last President with facial hair.

[verdugo]

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

[Fletch]

People from Slovenia are called "Slovenes".

[x JonnyStorey x]

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

[verdugo]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

[x JonnyStorey x]

The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.

http://motorsportsmore.com/MLB_Logo.jpg

[noahsdove]

^ I got aroused by that Av

[verdugo]

U.S Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

[awonderful]

The home team must provide the referee with 36 footballs for each National Football League game.

[x JonnyStorey x]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

[x JonnyStorey x]

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

[Dazmguk]

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

[Dazmguk]

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span

[x JonnyStorey x]

In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.

[Dazmguk]

400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow

[Dazmguk]

At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in the White House bathtub

[x JonnyStorey x]

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

[awonderful]

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphysema), And May Complicate Pregnancy.

[Dazmguk]

The armhole in clothing is called an armsaye

[Revolver]

James Joyce was afraid of dogs.

[x JonnyStorey x]

There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.

[Dazmguk]

Eosophobia is the fear of dawn

[x JonnyStorey x]

In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It came with the car when I bought it."

[awonderful]

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on

[x JonnyStorey x]

One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.

[awonderful]

women like sex

[Dazmguk]

A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years

[verdugo]

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

[awonderful]

PMS is a myth

[awonderful]

Helen Keller could not drive because she was a women.

[Dazmguk]

The revolving door was invented in 1888

[verdugo]

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

[awonderful]

the vagina is an inverted penis

[blazerboy427]

Women's buttons on button down shirts are on the left as opposed to men's button down shirts where the buttons are on the right.

[blazerboy427]

Alicia Sacramone is hot!

[6655321]

PMS is a myth

this is a boldfaced lie.

[awonderful]

speed kills

[Oracle989]

Space isn't cold.

[wescas]

you can die from lack of sunlight (nerds)

[Oral_Roberts]

Neptune was actually further from the earth than Pluto for much of our lifetimes....
(late 70s through mid-90s, I believe)

[verdugo]

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

[Oracle989]

Windmills do not work that way.

[nickadams]

Oprah Winfrey has 6 toes

[hatepoppy]

to date, EPA SWMM5 does not allow constrained proportional-integral-derivative real time control. BASTARDS!

[smahoo]

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition.

[rustytulip]

The term Bedlem comes from the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem.

[Eddie198]

frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.

[vasili denisov]

"Bedlam" is sometimes misspelled.
The speak English in countries other than England.
But the speak it sometimes poorly.

[rustytulip]

"Bedlam" is sometimes misspelled.

But the speak it sometimes poorly.

Jesus I'm stupid!

Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.

[nickadams]

Manx is the now defunct language spoken on the Isle of Man

[verdugo]

chances you are going to die from cancer are 1 in 5, while dying from a heart attack carries even worse odds: 1 in 2.5.

[Distortion]

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury

[WET HOT MESS]

Thread symbolized semen in Orphic cults.

[awonderful]

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus

[awonderful]

The moon is actually not made of cheese at all

[awonderful]

The Yankees indeed do suck

[awonderful]

September 14th 2000-Microsoft releases Windows ME

[awonderful]

Brooke Hogan is indeed a woman

[awonderful]

The Wayans brothers are not funny

[blazerboy427]

The Wayans brothers in White Chicks still were not funny sans the Michelle Branch sing-along part.

[Draven X 23]

All Balls itch.

[blazerboy427]

Jerry Seinfeld is now hawking Windows Vista...FAIL!

[Draven X 23]

American Idol is not a reality show. Its a glorified Karaoke competition.

[Will-Kill]

A Megalondon can swallow a man whole.

[verdugo]

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

[wonderwall]

The Girls Next Door are Idiots.

[Distortion]

Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85

[Oral_Roberts]

The reason for Mars' red colour is thought to be an iron-oxide-rich soil.

[Oral_Roberts]

Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

[wonderwall]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

[awonderful]

Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds

[MDiver01]

On average people in their life time eat 8 spiders in their sleep

[awonderful]

The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 meters in length.

[MDiver01]

that fact made me hungry

[awonderful]

130% of women think money makes a man sexier

[vasili denisov]

When dead, I hope that all of me will end up buried in a small, humble grave. While alive, I hope that part of me will end up buried in Rosario Dawson's ass.

[Spanky]

When dead, I hope that all of me will end up buried in a small, humble grave. While alive, I hope that part of me will end up buried in Rosario Dawson's ass.
which part?

[Archetype]

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a vagina.

[Jason]

On average people in their life time eat 8 spiders in their sleep

I read that you don't typically eat them in your sleep because any movement, even when sleeping, scares them away. But you do probably eat that much in processed food because of low FDA standards.

[gun512]

I like cheese

[xfancy]

Ritalin and Cocaine have similar chemical structure

[awonderful]

ringworm is not caused by a worm

[blazerboy427]

The song, Hook, by Blues Traveler is a song about nothing.

[awonderful]

some recreational drugs will kill you

[blazerboy427]

Air duster is fucking fun.

[gun512]

the middle east smells like BO

[AyKay]

I call the tv remote a clicker.

[vasili denisov]

When Ludwig Nobel died, many newspapers mixed him up with his brother, Alfred, when writing obituaries. After reading the scathing eulogies indicting him for the wanton death caused by his invention of dynamite, Alfred felt compelled to do something which would cause him to be remembered in a better light, resulting in the foundation and prize which bear his name.

[gun512]

Submarines have been using low and mid-frequency active sonar technology, a deafening soundwave that is dangerous even 300 miles from it's source. Some mid-frequency sonar systems can put out over 235 decibals, which is about as loud as a rocket launch.
Animals for hundreds of miles literally jump out of the ocean to try to avoid the sound. The damaging effects vary, bet are akin to decompression sickness causing internal bleeding and bursting organs including lungs and eardrums. When beached dolphins are reported this sonar technology is rarely mentioned in the news, although the link has been demonstrated

[MDiver01]

dolphins shouldnt be in the water anyways

[gun512]

I used to care

[vasili denisov]

In the 1930s, the US had so much oil that producers managed to get the Texas Rangers to shut down independent drillers in East Texas who were bringing up so much crude and driving the price so low, that the larger companies were worried they'd go bankrupt.

[Jason]

50% of the GMF boards are cool people, the other 50% are dbags that can't wait to neg people because they think people care about their rep.

[gun512]

You are not the cool 50%

[Francis Drake]

Mt. Washington, NH holds the record for the highest wind gust directly measured at the Earth's surface, at 231 mpg (372 km/h) on the afternoon of April 12, 1934.

[medlar]

The average speed of ejaculation is 28mph/45.kph

[awonderful]

Drinking and driving may be hazardous to your health

[Philip Lombard]

On average people in their life time eat 8 spiders in their sleep
This useless "fact" is not true.

[awonderful]

the name phillip means "LOVER OF HORSES"

http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/findresults.asp?name=PHILIP

[awonderful]

If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you. (http://19781.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/?&product_id=2901285)

[awonderful]

Chuck Norris can eat just one Lay's potato chip. (http://19781.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/?&product_id=2901441)

[vasili denisov]

the name phillip means "LOVER OF HORSES"

http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/findresults.asp?name=PHILIP
In Philip K Dick's novel, Valis, the character Horselover Fat turns out to actually be the author, the character's name, a play on the writer's, since Dick in old german meant "fat".

[Hodge]

Me reading these facts gives them a use; therefore, they are not useless.

[Oral_Roberts]

My right leg is longer than my left.

[doors43]

A human thigh bone is harder than concrete.

[Mmeh]

7 out of 10 people believe in life after death.

[smahoo]

At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

[bbates77]

Relatively speaking, Barbie has big tits.

I've heard that if a real woman had the same proportions as Barbie, she wouldn't be able to stand properly.

[smahoo]

^ Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

[bbates77]

^ you just checked that?

[smahoo]

^ no, i remember seeing that before...dude, i'm a wealth of knowledge

[Mmeh]

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

[awonderful]

Dolphins are the only animals that make love and have the amount of pleasure comparable to human.

[SilverBullet]

Whales have blowholes

[SilverBullet]

A blow job is actually a vacuum created from cupping your mouth around the shaft of the penis.

[SilverBullet]

Sexual favors have risen with the gas prices

[verdugo]

you pay more for water than for gas in regular basis..

[Fletch]

The set of Arnold's Drive In, on Happy Days, had pinball machines from the 70s, even though the show was set in the 50s.

[awonderful]

you should flush your toilet after taking a giant shit or it will smell badly till you do so

[jtox]

you should flush your toilet after taking a giant shit or it will smell badly till you do so

I hardly consider that fact useless.

[CaustiC]

Around 25% of people in the US born after 1980 think their father is someone other than their real father.

[awonderful]

you are 12.5% genome wide identical to your cousin

[rectifier]

we have enough iron in our bodies to make a 7.62cm nail

[awonderful]

You cannot take a shit out of your eyeball

[Bastard]

Popeye’s four nephews are named Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye. Poopeye? It's like he was named after some strange asian cartoon.

[NotAllBlack]

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Disease and war keeps that in check

[sidewinder]

Puffed corn and wheat are shot from guns (no, really).

[Kerjack]

Not all of it.

[MemphisVon]

According to suicide stats, Monday is the day people off themselves...

[sdale4life]

According to ESPN commercials, Monday is also the day when 66% of paper jams occur.

[awonderful]

arod is alex rodriguez's nickname

[AlanSmithee]

Anti-modem laws restrict Internet access in the country of Burma. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term.

[wolly]

there are 100 pennies in a dollar

[Blue]

My hand won't fit down a 3" pipe.

[awonderful]

I have my bowel movement between 10-10:20 am every single day.

[wonderwall]

The word "pound" is abbreviated "lb." from the Latin "libra pondo", meaning weight or balance, where the constellation got its name.

[wonderwall]

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

[wonderwall]

Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

[wonderwall]

The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.

[wonderwall]

Laser is actually an acronym for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation."

[wonderwall]

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

[wonderwall]

"Dreamt" and "undreamt" are the only English words that end in the letters "mt."

[wonderwall]

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

[wonderwall]

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

[wonderwall]

A snail can sleep for three months.

[wonderwall]

Hannibal Lecter is Hilarious.

[wonderwall]

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

[wonderwall]

Mono gets it name from being one of the crappiest sicknesses to have.

[wonderwall]

I rule

[wolly]

it takes 60 second to count for one minute

[wonderwall]

The US purchased Alaska from Russia for approximately 2 cents an acre.

[wolly]

The human brain is 80% water

[wonderwall]

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

[Archetype]

Chef Boyardee is also 80% water. And milk. Is that a conspiracy I smell? Yes. Yes it is.

[awonderful]

pocket monster is the nickname my penis has for its penis

[wonderwall]

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned TV Channel 1 to mobile services, but did not re-number the other channel assignments.

[merlin13]

When termites swarm, Less than 1%,which are mating pairs, survive to start a new colony.

[awonderful]

rain is a type of precipitation

[awonderful]

Drag is an aerodynamic force that resists the motion of an object moving through a fluid (air and water are both fluids).

[awonderful]

mirrors reflect things

[wolly]

the sun is hot and ice is cold

[awonderful]

arianny celestes turn ons are a funny guy with a great smile

[dadaelus]

The pweor of the hmuan mnid:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch codnutced at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are tpyed, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit oedrer. The rset can be a total 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. Amzanig huh?

[Titan of Toyota]

Catalytic Converters are made from rare earth metals like Platinum, Rhodium, and Palodium

[awonderful]

hugh laurie isnt american even though you think he is becaue of his tv program "house m.d." he is in fact an actor and uses a made up accent to cover up his british accent.

[awonderful]

you are supposed to put pop tarts in your toaster, but you dont have to if you dont want to. You can just open it up and eat it out of the package.

[awonderful]

"normal" people have 10 fingers and 10 toes

[Kerjack]

The real normal people have nine fingers and two thumbs.

[awonderful]

burt and ernie are homosexuals

[Archetype]

At the Olympics, the winners get medals.
At the Olympics, some losers also get medals.

[awonderful]

in japan "im huge"

[awonderful]

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!

[Archetype]

Lies, goats don't chew gum.






Do they?

[awonderful]

if you pee your pants, at first its a warm inviting feeling then you get embarrased

[Archetype]

Depends how drunk you are. And how cold. Sometimes you bypass the embarrassment.

[Archetype]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u50/jjmckool/pfsc-art-shirt.gif

[Fletch]

It's currently 75 degrees outside my house, and 74 degrees inside.

[doodL]

humans have the longest penis to body ratio in the mammal class

[Hanover Fist]

Woody Harrelsons father was a Freelance hitman who was convicted of killing a federal judge and was sentenced to life in prison in 1979. He died of natural causes in Colorados Florence supermax prison in 2007.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson

[Bastard]

If you accidentally set someone on fire, don’t tell them that if they run fast enough, it will put out the flames.

[Bastard]

Nicolas Cage was going to play the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle's film The Outsiders, but lost to Matt Dillon.

[awonderful]

You consume 1/10th of a calorie when you lick a stamp

[awonderful]

Diet Dr.Pepper tastes like regular Dr. Pepper. simply amazing

[PWalk]

Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely.

[awonderful]

a snickers bar has nothing to do with laughing in a covert way. It is actually just a candy bar.

[awonderful]

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

[awonderful]

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws

[doodL]

You can purchase many types of goods on services on the internet.

[doodL]

I can't believe its not butter

[Archetype]

You can purchase many types of goods on services on the internet.
What, like sushi on prostitutes?

[doodL]

Well, only if you have enough money. I forgot to add the cost factor in the equation.

[Bastard]

Hitler wasn’t a good painter.

[doodL]

Hannibal Lecter once ate a census takers liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

[awonderful]

DNA can be amplified using a procedure called the polymerase chain reaction

[awonderful]

africa is fucking hot. temperature wise

[awonderful]

The george foreman grill is a Lean mean fat grilling machine

[78hipo3o2]

life is what you make it

[awonderful]

the grass is greener on the other side

[awonderful]

you cant actually dig a hole to china unless you have a map

[awonderful]

its not ok when fat girls wear thongs

[78hipo3o2]

shaking it more than twice is playing with it

[awonderful]

coke is a carbonated beverage as well as a nickname for cocaine

[78hipo3o2]

Boobies make me smile!

[dantino]

Peanut butter refutes the theory of evolution.

[Fletch]

Google Maps was once called Google Local.

[blackhawkkb8]

The word/trademark/cashcow named the Superbowl was originally derived from a childrens toy named the Super Ball.

[blackhawkkb8]

If your going through hell...keep going.

[Archetype]

Peanut butter refutes the theory of evolution.
On a related note, all peanut butter is connected through a hyper-sensory link and will one day envelope us all in it's goo of superior intelligence.

[awonderful]

if you cut off your hand it will not grow back like a lizards

[gun512]

i love motor boating vag

[vasili denisov]

Of the things I love about vag, a motor, inboard or outboard, is not one of them.

[MDiver01]

saving it doesnt make it look bigger.

[awonderful]

cellulite is not sexy

[Kerjack]

We had one field do 140 bushel an acre. I didn't even know that was possible

[Candide's Son]

ancient Egyptians could delegate really well.

[awonderful]

there is no such thing as a free lunch..unless of course its free

[harmer56]

the average person blinks up to 40,000 times per day

[awonderful]

Pants which have a string or strap that goes up between the buttocks are popular with those who do not want the dreaded vpl (visible panty line) under tight clothing.

[awonderful]

almond joy has nuts, mounds don't

[MDiver01]

whats with you and almond joy tonight?

[awonderful]

they are delicious


red bull gives you wings

[MDiver01]

wrong thread

[awonderful]

sitcom=situational comedy

[Cornelius]

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

[Cornelius]

93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

[Cornelius]

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

[Cornelius]

About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.

(http://www.amusingfacts.com/cgi-bin/review.cgi?ID=5769)

[Cornelius]

Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person.

[lce-man]

Luxembourg is the country with the most deaths on streets per inhabitant.

[allyourbase]

Sometimes, something claiming to be a wooden duck is actually not truly a wooden duck.

[Spanky]

i neg people sometimes

[jimmysego]

78.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[Archetype]

That's not funny.

[jimmysego]

i chuckled.

[Bastard]

It’s always fun until someone gets hurt. Then it’s really funny.

[jimmysego]

a female hyena has a bigger penis than the male hyena.


i'm still not gay.

[Archetype]

^He's gay.