A useless fact you know

[FalloutJack]

I'll go with...

"No fact is necessarily useless."

...and wait for the paradox to turn you inside-out.

 

[Krion_Vark]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Or was it 82%?

I believe the correct thing is according to a Harvard Study 83.62476% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

 

[FalloutJack]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Or was it 82%?

I believe the correct thing is according to a Harvard Study 83.62476% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Curious. Does that estamate include itself?

*Going for a record on 'splodey heads here*

 

[Krion_Vark]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Or was it 82%?

I believe the correct thing is according to a Harvard Study 83.62476% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Curious. Does that estamate include itself?

*Going for a record on 'splodey heads here*

DAMN IT THEY'RE ON TO US GET THE ALUMINUM HATS!!!

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.

 

[Bambi Puce]

The Swedish Chef's real name is Thom

 

[Suarga]

You find useless facts interesting because they are just as significant as you are, in the end.

 

[Tsunimo]

People used to use X-Rays to find out if they had the correct shoe size.
Before people stopped using radiation for everyday uses, a man OD'ed on pills containing radiation and his jaw fell off.

You cant trap an arrow thrown from a bow with your hands

I call bull, im quite certain ive seen it done
although please correct me if im wrong, as i dont have a very good memory, and could be pulling this out ma' ass

 

[Caligulove]

The original title of the FX series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" was
"It's Always Sunny on TV"

 

[PrototypeC]

I know how to spell deoxyribonucleic acid... DNA.

One of the most common and least interesting facts one could know. Not to mention, most useless.

 

[Nyaliva]

Random Facts eh?
This is the thread I was born for!!!!! Okay, get ready...

1.The hamburger is actually named after Hamburg, Germany
2.Dueling is legal in Paraguay for registered blood donors
3.A moment is one and a half minutes and a jiffy is 1/10th of a second
4.A donkey can see all four of its feet at all times
5.Earth is slowing down; in a few million years there won't be a leap year
6.The sun shrinks 152cm every hour
7.Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
8.Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn
9.The origins of saying cheese when taking a photo has nothing to do with making you smile, it's because cheese actually means "eternal smile" (I'm not sure what language)
10. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is often considered the longest word in the English language but the actual longest word contains 189,819 letters and is the chemical name for titin, the largest known protein (this is disputed as it's a technical definition rather than a word)

I have tons more but they're some of my best and I suppose they're not that useless because by collecting these useless facts they've helped prove I have no life...

Oh and one for the wannabe physicists: photons are considered weird because they act like a particle and a wave but it was actually proven that all particles share this property and their wavelength is given be some constant h divided by the particle's mass times its velocity.

 

[chainer1216]

German came within one vote of being our national language.

And your country is?

America.


ok on topic.

in WWII america almost used pigeon guided missiles, in testing the idea worked perfectly, but the project was quickly scrapped for being too weird.

 

[W8NKA]

Dogs dont see black and white, depending on what breed it is it will be missing some colour cones that are need to see colour, its usaly red.

 

[Sacman]

Semen removes hair dye. Thank you, more experienced girlfriend. >_>

Actually this will come in handy... I accidentally stained my leg with red hair dye the other day...

now to get down to business...<.<

 

[Magnalian]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Or was it 82%?

I'm 39% certain it was 82%.

 

[tigermilk]

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

you mean the other way around? either way it's false, the earth from the moon doesn't look that much bigger than the moon from earth. that is like trying to notice a short hair on a basketball 10 feet away

I assure you it is not false, the moon can be seen from the Great Wall of China, I never said anything about the perceived size of the moon, merely it was visible to the naked eye.

I assumed you meant the other way around
and you can see the moon pretty much anwhere

*Sighs* It was a concious inversion of a well known useless fact with the aim of producing another useless fact, I am aware that the moon can be seen from pretty much anywhere.

 

[tigermilk]

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...

It was a concious inversion of a well known useless fact with the aim of producing another useless fact, I am aware that the moon can be seen from pretty much anywhere.

 

[blankedboy]

The angle of the Earth's axis is 23.5 degrees.

In astronomy, that's incredibly useful.

 

[Iron Lightning]

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

How can I state a useless fact? The very act of stating a useless fact in this thread would give the fact the use of being something to state in this thread. Does not compute!

OT: 1 beard-second is equal to the length an average beard grows in 1 second, which is about 5 nanometers. This fact now is made useful to me because it has given me something to say in this thread, gahhhh.

/headexplode

 

[superbatranger]

Eleutherophobia is the fear of freedom.

Men have around 3-4 million erythrocytes per millimeter cubed of blood, while women only have around 2-3 million.

The first car built was not Henry Ford's Model T.

 

[silasbufu]

It's impossible to knock yourself out with a punch intentionally.

Have you tried it?