The Useless Facts thread...

[TowTruckTony]

For your enjoyment, Post useless Facts HERE...

[TooDarkPark]

I'm sitting on the floor.

[MurderFace]

Holy mackerel: a tuna can swim 100 miles in a day.

[MurderFace]

4% of California autos have personalized license plates.

[MurderFace]

Suzuki is the most common last name in Japan.

[MurderFace]

The Earth weighs 6,600 billion billion tons.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

50% of my trucks have personal plates :D

[MurderFace]

Mick Jagger went to the London School of Economics for 2 years.

[MurderFace]

The average American spends less than two hours a day with his or her familly.

[MurderFace]

According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols.

[MurderFace]

Moles can dig as far as 300 feet a day.

[MurderFace]

Kemo Sabe means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

[MurderFace]

The average person sweats 2 and a half quarts of water a day.

[MurderFace]

Human kidneys weigh about five ounces.

[MurderFace]

Esquire magazine nominated Billy Carter "Primate of the Decade" in 1980.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Chuck Norris' first martial arts instructor was H.U Lee the founder of ATA martial Arts which I am a member which is cool cause chuck Inspired me to take Martial arts !

[MurderFace]

The average person sheds a complete layer of skin every 28 days.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Murderface is Ljpost3 who is a giant postwhore :D

[MurderFace]

81% of Alaskan territory is owned by the government.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Murderface will reach 1000 posts before anyone on the HIV !

[MurderFace]

Murderface is Ljpost3 who is a giant postwhore :D

PBT know me well :D

(no homo)

[MurderFace]

500 cubic feet of air pass through your nose every day.

[MurderFace]

William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, also invented the polygraph.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

you must have two computers to find and post facts or you sir have a shit load of useless information

[MurderFace]

Nevada has more out-of-work dancers that any othe state.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

John candy had a $1000 a day coke habbit but weighed just under 400lbs

[MurderFace]

you must have two computers to find and post facts or you sir have a shit load of useless information

My source for all this useless information comes from Uncle John' Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers' Institute.

[MurderFace]

Howdy Doody's sister's name was Heidi Doody

[MurderFace]

The Columbia University football team's mascot, Leo the Lion, inspired the MGM lion.

[MurderFace]

General Douglas MacArthur's mother dressed him in skirts until he was eight years old.

[MurderFace]

A married man is four times more likely to die during sex if his partner isn't his wife.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World

[ATAWarriorPBT]

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.

[MurderFace]

New Hampshire allows boys to be married at 14 and girls at 13 -- with parental permission.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

[MurderFace]

The Great Salt Lake is only 13 feet deep.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

[MurderFace]

Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

[tammzenn]

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

[MurderFace]

The average supermarket stocks 12,341 different items.

[tammzenn]

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

[tammzenn]

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

[tammzenn]

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. (hmm...................)

[MurderFace]

29% of 18 to 24-year-olds talk in their sleep; 9% of people over 50 do.

[tammzenn]

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

(not sure how they found this out...hmmmmm)

[ATAWarriorPBT]

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

[tammzenn]

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

[MurderFace]

President Zachary Taylor never voted in a presidential election.

[tammzenn]

American astronauts must be under 6 feet tall.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.

[MurderFace]

Gail Borden, inventor of condensed milk, also coined the phrase "Remember the Alamo!"

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."


Us whores own him one for bump !

[tammzenn]

England is smaller than New England.

[tammzenn]

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.

[MurderFace]

Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to make a hole-in-one in golf.

[tammzenn]

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

[tammzenn]

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.

[tammzenn]

A male chimpanzee is 5 times hornier than the average human male.

[MurderFace]

There are 6500 windows in the Empire State Building.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

[tammzenn]

All porcupines float in water.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

[MurderFace]

Alaska is bigger than Texas and California combined.

[tammzenn]

Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

[MurderFace]

There are no photographs of Abe Lincoln smiling.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

[tammzenn]

All snow crystals are hexagonal.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Only female mosquitoes bite.

bitches :D

[tammzenn]

All the gold produced in the past five hundred years, if melted, could be compressed into a 50-foot cube

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

[MurderFace]

One bucket of water can make enough fog to cover 105 square miles in 50 feet of fog.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

[MurderFace]

America's favorite color is blue. Then red, green, white, pink, purple, and orange.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.

[MurderFace]

Pigs killed off the dodo bird

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)

[ATAWarriorPBT]

In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

[MurderFace]

Americans make more than 350 billion phone calls a year.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.

[MurderFace]

An average of 14 people jump off the Golden Gate Bridge every year.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

[MurderFace]

Beer wasn't sold in cans until 1935.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

[MurderFace]

If you keep your goldfish in a dark room, they'll turn white.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."

[MurderFace]

King Louis XIX ruled France for about 15 minutes.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

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

[MurderFace]

FDR thought up the name "United Nations" in the shower.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.



pot heads :D

[MurderFace]

Marietta, Ohio, is named after Marie Antoinette

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

[MurderFace]

In Colonial America, kids ate popcorn with cream and sugar for breakfast.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

[MurderFace]

There are 336 dimples in a regulation golf ball

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.

[MurderFace]

The word checkmate comes from the Persian shah mat, which means the king is dead.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

[MurderFace]

Camel's hair brushes are made with squirrel hair.

[MurderFace]

Storyteller Hans Christian Anderson couldn't spell.

[MurderFace]

Southby's auction house sold a 200-year-old piece of Tibetan cheese for $1513 in 1993.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The first ford cars had Dodge engines

[MurderFace]

66% of Las Vagas phone numbers are unlisted-the most of any US city.

[MurderFace]

A Boeing's 747's wingtips is longer than the Wright Brother's first flight.

[MurderFace]

Booker T Washington got his nickname because he loved books.

[MurderFace]

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was also know as "Fool Tom."

[MurderFace]

Size of the smallest man alive, in inches: 26.

[MurderFace]

Most popular sheet-music song of all time: "Yes, We Have No Bananas."

[MurderFace]

Chances of being bitten by a scorpion in your lifetime: 1 in 2,000,000.

[MurderFace]

Thomas Edison was the first person to put Frankenstein on film.

[MurderFace]

Humans and elephants are the only animals that can stand on their heels.

[MurderFace]

28% of Americans go to a library at least once a month. 27% never go at all.

[MurderFace]

North Carolianins drink more soda than people in any other state.

[MurderFace]

The fox uses its tail to balance when it runs.

[MurderFace]

Benjamin Franklin invented Swim fins.

[MurderFace]

Malaysians wash their babies in beer to protect them from disease.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

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

[ATAWarriorPBT]

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The only real people to be a Pez head are
Betsy Ross, Paul Revere and Daniel Boone.

I'm related to this pez head !

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.



Not flooglebinder :D

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The Skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radios newscast about the wreck.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Octopi have gardens.

[Shadow812]

I have 3 nipples.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A whale's penis is called a dork.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

[ATAWarriorPBT]

A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.

[MurderFace]

Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

[MurderFace]

Nintendo estimates that 42% of the people who use its games are over 18.

[MurderFace]

McDonalds hired 45 Ph.D. scientists to help it develop "carrot sticks" in 1991.

[MurderFace]

Hooters, a Las Vagas company, charges $57 an hour to have topless women clean your home.

[MurderFace]

In the average film, male actors utter 10 times as many profanities as female actors.

[MurderFace]

"Smut" gets its name from a fungus that lives on corn kernels.

[MurderFace]

Top 4 presidential religions: Episcopal(12), Presbyterian(9), Baptist and Unitarian (tied at 4).

[MurderFace]

Which George Washington portrait is more accurate, the $1 dollar bill or the quarter?






The quarter.

[Misteriosa]

watching television can act as a natural pain killer for children

[MurderFace]

The original Gotham City was a mythical English town whose residents were extremely stupid.

[Misteriosa]

the lion costume in the wizard of oz is made from real lions

[MurderFace]

Coney Island was once full of rabbits, which New York's colonist called "coneys."

[Misteriosa]

sex workers in roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine

[MurderFace]

Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Seriora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.

[Misteriosa]

more than 90% of plane crashes have survivors

[Misteriosa]

Barbies full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts

[MurderFace]

Cincinnati was so famous for its hog industry in the 1830s that it was nicknamed "Porkopolis."

[Misteriosa]

Walt Disney was afraid of mice

[Misteriosa]

the cigarette lighter was invented before the match

[MurderFace]

The world's first femal telephone operator was named Emma M. Nutt.

[Misteriosa]

all US presidents have worn glasses. some just didnt like being seen in public wearing them

[MurderFace]

the world's 1st "motor-hotel", the Milestone Mo-Tel, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA in 1925.

[Misteriosa]

Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860

[MurderFace]

Sitcom characters rarely say goodbye when they hang up the phone.

[Misteriosa]

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world

[Misteriosa]

Napoleon was terrified of cats

[MurderFace]

The little flap in the back of your throat is called the uvula

[Misteriosa]

Nondairy creamer is flammable

[MurderFace]

Women have Adams apples, Men's are larger to accommodate their longer vocal cords.

[Misteriosa]

America once issued a five cent bill

[Misteriosa]

coca cola was originally green

[MurderFace]

Who's the St. Pauli Girl? The German beer is named for Hamburgs's red-light district.

[MurderFace]

The poorest county in the US is Shannon County, South Dakota.

[Misteriosa]

In ancient Egypt, the apricot was called the "egg of the sun."

[MurderFace]

Number, in degrees, a bowling pin needs to tilt to fall down: 7.5.

[Misteriosa]

The largest snowflake ever found was 15 x 8 inches. It was found on January 28, 1887, in Fort Keogh, Montana.

[MurderFace]

In your lifetime, you'll sleep about 220,000 hours.

[MurderFace]

13% of women reapply their lipstick more than eight times a day.

[MurderFace]

Red is rarely used on ice cream packages because it reminds people of heat.

[elgallow]

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia

[elgallow]

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders

[elgallow]

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half

[Sassacus]

When I look at pictures of Toni or Paige my pants get quite a bit tighter.

[elgallow]

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet

[cgman5]

i like butter and peanut butter on a begal

[elgallow]

Cat urine glows under a blacklight.

[elgallow]

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

[cgman5]

leather sticks to you when you sweat

[elgallow]

A straightened coat hangar is 44 inches long

[elgallow]

American car horns beep to the tone of F.

[cgman5]

Fenway Park is the oldest active Major League Baseball Stadium

[elgallow]

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20

[cgman5]

The old man on the mountain in NH slid off the mountain

[elgallow]

John Wayne had the most leading roles in Hollywood with 141.

[elgallow]

Virus means poison in Latin.

[cgman5]

The simpsons have beat out MASH as longest running comedy ever

[elgallow]

At least 8,000 human made objects are orbiting the Earth.

[cgman5]

The subway system in London is called the Tube

[elgallow]

An Italian deck of cards has no queens.

[cgman5]

in Boston there is actually no School on School St. and there is no Court on Court St.

[cgman5]

Out of the all the US Presidents that no one can remember Taft is the one that they eventually think of first

[cgman5]

RGB = Red Green Blue, CMYK = Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

[elgallow]

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

[Morningkill]

Slugs have four noses.

[cgman5]

an isosceles triangle has 2 equal sides

[cgman5]

an 8 ball can be black or white

[cgman5]

Jesus was a Jew

[cgman5]

My HIV member number and my employee number at work are the same

[PaigeWantsIt]

an 8 ball can be black or white

a magic 8 ball can be PINK!

[cgman5]

paige is hot (not a useless fact, but a fact indeed)!

[PaigeWantsIt]

CGMAN Just made me Blush!

[Sassacus]

My Jaw is the only bone I have broken (had broken).
It was 7 years ago and it's fine now and takes punches like a champ, often (mixed martial arts).

It was the steel toe boot that posed a broblem....

[TowTruckTony]

This place ROCKS...

[elgallow]

Every lake in Ohio is manmade

[elgallow]

The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to have a president on it.

[elgallow]

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

[nerdo5]

CGMAN Just made me Blush!

Paige just made my heart go pitter patter.

[nerdo5]

Every lake in Ohio is manmade

Even Lake Erie? That's a shit ton of digging.

[nerdo5]

The main character Howard Roark in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" was based loosely on Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a friend of Rand's.

[elgallow]

Even Lake Erie? That's a shit ton of digging.

yup even lake erie.