A useless fact you know

[tahrey]

You can't lick your own elbow

Orly?

Spoiler

The human body can survive without the stomach or large intestine. On second though thats not very useless...

If we could, then surely we would have evolved out of them? And if we didn't have them, then how could we live? We need to digest food, surely...

I presume the lesson is that we could survive with the small intestine alone, without any further mechanical or chemical help (and indeed, many people have and do after accidents, cancer etc). It's not a fun or easy life and it's quite inefficient digestion, but you can do it.

 

[drbarno]

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]

I find it funny that you haven't actually read my post properly, I said the duck's cry has an echo, not has no echo.

That's alright, you weren't the first one to point this out, i think there's a post about halfway through this thread saying the same thing by someone else.
Pardon my illiteracy.

 

[MrCollins]

The speed of light throught soduim at 3°K is approximately 60km/h

 

[SilentBobsThoughts]

Dog's can't look up,

Not true = P I have a dog, he looks up a lot

It's a film reference -.-

O.T. Duck-Billed Platypus is the only mammal that lay eggs if I remember correctly.

 

[Mikaze]

Dog's can't look up,

Not true = P I have a dog, he looks up a lot

It's a film reference -.-

O.T. Duck-Billed Platypus is the only mammal that lay eggs if I remember correctly.

You don't, the echidna does it too. They're called monotremes, there are 2 and they're both Australian.

OT: The M21 is Modern Warfare 2 is actually an incorrectly labelled M14, it even says so right on the gun.

 

[The Cheezy One]

You can't lick your own elbow

Orly?

Spoiler

The human body can survive without the stomach or large intestine. On second though thats not very useless...

If we could, then surely we would have evolved out of them? And if we didn't have them, then how could we live? We need to digest food, surely...

Bottom of the arm, not the elbow. And is that you, or did you actually search "man licks own elbow"

 

[The Cheezy One]

I saw it on Brainiac. The picture, that is.

Brainiac sold out when it became more about having attractive women in suggestive opses than actual science. And when Richard Hammond stopped doing it

 

[Jewrean]

According to quantum physics, if you removed all of the empty space from all of the matter that makes up the human race you would be left with something the size of a sugar cube.

 

[TheTejs]

It's called AN useless fact due to the vowel
wait... That is usefull... hmm...
I have a bottle of ouzo on my room
(that is uselss, as ouzo is fucking horrible)

 

[lazy_eight]

In base 13, 6 times 9 equals 42.

A Google search currently produces 14 100 000 results for "strip Risk" (without the quotes), but only 208 000 results for "strip Monopoly" &
64 600 for "strip cribbage".

EDIT: Thought of another one. Gravity doesn't really exist; the Earth just sucks.

 

[8-Bit Grin]

Earwigs have two penises. The more you know.

... For what possible purpose?

I can see it now: DP'ing Their Way Through Scum and Dirt, An Earwigs Life

 

[Mikaze]

In base 13, 6 times 9 equals 42.

A Google search currently produces 14 100 000 results for "strip Risk" (without the quotes), but only 208 000 results for "strip Monopoly" &
64 600 for "strip cribbage".

Woo XKCD! and hats!

I own 2 different fedoras.

 

[AMMO Kid]

If you jump up, eventually you will come down - depending on how high the building you are on is.

 

[GeorgW]

Donkeys kill more people each year than airplane crashes.
Pumpkins, bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers and oranges are all berries.

 

[Lykon]

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

A flea's jump has a higher acceleration than a rocket, and so they are the only bug that wont smush on a rocket's windscreen.

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew and its orgasm lasts 30 minutes

 

[GeorgW]

It's called AN useless fact due to the vowel
wait... That is usefull... hmm...

No, it's "A useless fact" because of how the "U" is pronounced. Same thing with a university among others.

 

[ChocoFace]

Wilt Chamberlain is the only player in the history of the NBA franchise to achieve a quadruple-double.

 

[ssgt splatter]

The reason why swimming baths make you take a shower before going in the pool isnt because they think you are sweaty. Its because dead skin cells react with chlorine to make chloroform, a knock-out gas

Really? Cool.

My useless facts...
MW2 is broken but I keep playing it because I'm a glutton for puninshment. i.e., you spawn in, take 3 steps, get shot.
Jell-O is made from animal hides and bones in some way, not really sure how and I don't think I want to know.
2+2=4. Sorry, couldn't resist
All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
The year is really 365 1/4 days long. Which is why every 4 years, the year is 366 days long.
The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 318 mph. F-5 tornado that hit Oklahoma City in the 90s.