A useless fact you know

[sarcasa]

Random fact

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed.

 

[Yosato]

Tell me a useless fact that you know, but first hear mine!
The first creature sent to space was the fly, specifically the fruitfly,

Vegeta killed his first partner, and his ghost still haunts him to this very day.

 

[Hatchet90]

There is no such thing as a useless fact.

 

[skitzo van]

The moon can be seen from the Great Wall of China without visual aids.

I see the moon wherever I go...
The two things that can be seen from the moon are the great wall of China and the Staten Island landfill...

No, that's a myth.

Eh. Cool. Now I have more things to disprove to people..

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

Useless facts -
1. The coconuts used in "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail" were used because the crew couldn't afford to rent horses.
2. Amy Hennig, lead writer and producer for the Legacy of Kain games (except for the Blood Omen titles) broke into the video game industry with "Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City".
3. The peanut is neither a pea or a nut. It is, in fact, an ingenious spy from the former Souviet Union.

 

[Juggern4ut20]

The term soccer in reference to what the majority of the world calls football was actually coined by England, not US.

And you can only see the great wall from low orbit, in actual outer space, no man made objects can be seen.

 

[MikailCaboose]

That besides from uric acid and used blood, urine has the same composition as sweat.
Mercury's day is longer than it's year, and about half-way through its year, if you stand on the equator and look at the sun you will see it go about 3/4ths the way across the sky and then reverse to being directly overhead, and then continue its original direction and set.

You'll also immediately flash freeze

Well, that's not the point. Rather, it stands slightly to the side, laughing maniacally.

 

[Eat Uranium]

Pi down to a god aweful number of digits....lets see... 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971

yaaaa

Since I believe Pi is infinite, you can get more "god awful number of digits". OR maybe it's just really long.

Pi is an irrational number (i.e. it has an infinite number of digits after the decimal point).

However, if my memory serves me correctly, you only need the first 12 digits to be able to accurately calculate a circle the size of the observable universe within measurable limits.

Mercury is the only know metal to be in a liquid form at room temperature.

Gallium and Caesium melt if you hold them (though this is not advisable). If you include non-metal elements too, Bromine as well is a liquid (though if it was safe to hold it would vaporise in your hand).

 

[FollowUp]

Koalas have the highest homosexuality rate of any mammal

 

[LaughingAtlas]

The most successful pirate of all time was a chinese woman called Hsi Kai. (I think)

Coffee used to be considered a devil drink from the middle east, used to stay awake for late night prayer. This changed when the Pope of the time drank some himself and immediatly said "We shall fool the devil by baptizing it!"

Atilla the hun died of a nosebleed. (drowned in his sleep, technically)

A surprising number of people got to America before Columbus.

The Jack-O-Lantern was originally a turnip.

"Santa Claus" is probably a mispronunciation of "Saint Nicholas." (see it?)

Pouring alcohol on a scorpian may make it go nuts and sting itself to death. (not tested by me)

Such fun.

 

[mekashiyu]

I have but one that I feel like sharing right now, hopefully it hasn't been said already. D:

* The first 3 digits of pi (3.14) spell "pie" when looked at from behind (aka horizontal flip) if you write your 4 with a closed top, like this font.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

The element Plutonium didn't exist on Earth until humans came along.

Americium is a decay product of Plutonium.

 

[Peteron]

The horn on a narwhal is actually a tooth extending through it's upper lip.

 

[Troodon]

The law of commutativity, A*B=B*A does not apply to the mathematics behind quantum mechanics, which forms the basis for the uncertainty principle (to put it in a simple way).

It can also be used to form Norwegian disco bands.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

The law of commutativity, A*B=B*A does not apply to the mathematics behind quantum mechanics, which forms the basis for the uncertainty principle (to put it in a simple way).

It can also be used to form Norwegian disco bands.

Shoulda seen that coming...

 

[Scabadus]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. Ironic right?

Speaking of which...

"Lisp" has an S in it, "Dyslexic" isn't phonetic, and speaking of fonetic phonetic...

 

[ShadowHand25]

Dog's can't look up,

Great Shaun of the Dead reference.

 

[silv]

The Schwarzchild radius is the radius an object needs to obtain in order to become a black hole as represented by the equation Rs=2Gm/c^2 where G is the gravitational constant 6.67x10^-11m^3kg^-1s^-2 (not the force of acceleration due to gravity on earth which is 9.8m/s^2), m is the mass of the object and c is the speed of light in a vacuum 3.0x10^8.

The Schwarzchild radius of the sun is 3 km.
The Schwarzchild radius of the earth is 8 mm, the size of an average marble.

 

[C95J]

It's illegal to bring Kangaroos into a barber shop in Alaska. Don't ask me why It's so specific, it just is.

It's also legal to have sex with a porcupine in my city. Although if you do it, it's gunna hurt.

what if a porcupine has sex with a porcupine?

No one would bother them because it's legal. But I would take a few pictures... I mean I would arrest them for public fornication.

bit of a weird question but have you ever seen turtles at it (not in a crazy weird way) but it's just so funny

I've seen a turtle trying to have sex with a shoe if that counts. And yes it was hilarious.

you just made my day.