A useless fact you know

[silasbufu]

Spaghetti Bolognese has nothing to do with Italy.

The Bolognese sauce is a meat-based sauce for pasta originating in Bologna, Italy .
Spaghetti originate from Italy as well.
If you meant something else by that, I'm curious.

 

[Lokluster]

Random fact

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed.

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed because they have no eyelids.
Sucks to be them.

Also, this is my first post. Hurrah!

 

[Lokluster]

You can't sneeze with your eyes open. Believe me, I've kept myself from sneezing by keeping my eyes open.

If you sneeze with your eyes open and also try to hold the sneeze in, the pressure that builds up can potentially blow your eyeballs right out of your head.
Don't try that at home.
Do it under controlled, professional circumstances.
Otherwise it's just stupid.

 

[drbarno]

a duck's cry has an echo.

since when did ducks cry. and the quack can echo according to mythbusters

I was using the word "cry" as a synonym for the sound a duck makes, and I found that out through QI when they talked about a guy sticking a duck into an echo-chamber.

 

[Calatar]

Think about how stupid an average person is. Half the world is dumber than that.

And the vast majority of these are patently false urban legends.

 

[Sacman]

Random fact

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed.

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed because they have no eyelids.
Sucks to be them.

Also, this is my first post. Hurrah!

Welcome to the Escapist...

OT: Snakes lack eyelids as well instead their eyes glaze over when they fall asleep...<.<

 

[sycoesis]

The angle of the Earth's axis is 23.5 degrees.<----- RELATIVE TO WHAT?

Relative to earth's orbit around the sun.

OT: Doctor Mario is no real doctor.

my useless fact this comment for an unknown reason made me laugh uncontrollably my stomach hurts

 

[Kenni-chan]

Chickens can't fart

and

The box jellyfish has 60 arseholes

 

[Hateren47]

Spaghetti Bolognese has nothing to do with Italy.

The Bolognese sauce is a meat-based sauce for pasta originating in Bologna, Italy .
Spaghetti originate from Italy as well.
If you meant something else by that, I'm curious.

Sauce Bolognese, in Italy, is a ragu and is served with tagliatelli or lasagne. Spaghetti is of course from Italy.

 

[Antonio Torrente]

The tip of a shoelace is an aglet
Phineas and Ferb dude.

 

[siebje]

OT: You know that ringing you sometimes get in your ears? It's a different pitch each time.

In fact, nothing is ever the same as anything that preceded it.

 

[jamez525]

The longest word you can type on the top row of a qwerty keyboard (top row of letters obviously)
is typewriter

not on every keyboard(german keyboards have Z and Y switched)

computers can't create random numbers or secret processes, so they suck if used for elections

But that is why I said qwerty keyboard.

 

[jamez525]

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.

But the Model T was the first mass produced car.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

a duck's cry has an echo.

I beg to differ:
[url = http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp]Duck echo myth: BUSTED![/url]

 

[NinjaRabies]

Antartica is defined as a desert.

 

[silversnake4133]

Yay random facts!

I has two:
1. The character Marluxia from Organization XIII was originally supposed to be a female.
2. If a person was exposed to about 200 dB (decibles) of a low frequency, his or her lungs will collapse.

 

[Cameron Sours]

RJ45 connectors are more appropriately called 8P8C connectors wired with UTP-8 Cable (Unsheilded Twisted Pair-8 strand). The cabling standard is generally called 568B, but is actually TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2001 T568B.

Also, the more specific you try to get when naming computer components, the more likely you are to be wrong. See if you can spot all my errors!

 

[thahat]

The angle of the Earth's axis is 23.5 degrees.<----- RELATIVE TO WHAT?

guesses: the rest of the stuff orbiting us/us orbeting them

 

[Brad Shepard]

Dog's can't look up,

I will argue thats bullshit, my dogs look up at me all the time, now, lets go to the windchester!

OT: Most Weaboos are Naruto fans.