A useless fact you know

[Romidude]

Adolf Hitler sold paintings out of a homeless shelter before rising to power.

 

[THEMILKMAN]

Elephants cant jump

Hah. Who knew elephants were white?

OT: the NBA only invented the three point shot to give white guys a fair chance. (probably not true...but it could be!)

 

[Snake Plissken]

More people die each year from shaking vending machines than do mountain climbing.

 

[Naheal]

Everyone on Earth has an opinion.

WRONG! People in comas have no though outside of dreams and therefor no opinions!

Debatable! Just because no outward signs of consciousness are shown does not mean that such a consciousness does not exist!

If they are conscious then they are not in a coma!

Touche, good sir. Touche.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

I love this thread

 

[The Afrodactyl]

Fortune cookies were invented in California and have never been used in Asia and the longest word in the English language is antidisestablishmentarialismnistic, an adverb.

Objection! The longest word in the English language is the chemical name of titin. There are nearly 190000 letters in that word.

(I tried to spoiler it but it said that the text was too long)

To be exact, it is through this link. [http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.html]

Jesus, there's a lot of "y"s in that word.

 

[Throwitawaynow]

Penguins have a gland above their eyes that convert sea water in to fresh water.

 

[BlueOnBlue]

The square root of 5929 is 77.

 

[HighLordJimmy]

Red light is the only colour light that does not change the size of your pupil when looking directly at it.

 

[The Afrodactyl]

25.80697580112788

A special prize for the lady/gentleman that knows what I mean.

 

[Eat Uranium]

The first creature sent to space was the fly, specifically the fruitfly,

wasn't it a dog? called leika or smth?

That was probably the first intentional creature brought into space. Satellites were brought up into space before ones with animals. During one or more of those times, I'm guessing a fly got caught inside a satellite before it was launched into orbit. When it came back down, they probably saw a fruit fly inside it and figured that it must have went up into space with the satellite.

No, the US were putting fruit flies into the nose-cones of captured V2 missiles at firing them into space. Where Laika fits in as is the first living thing to reach a stable orbit (all previous space faring animals were sub-orbital).

 

[creatiwe]

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...

ABBA where Sweedish actually

 

[the-kitchen-slayer]

There are two towns with the name Hell, one in the USA, one in Norway

Three if you count Cleveland.

XD Six if i count cleveland to be honest

Hell, Arizona, U.S
Hell, California, U.S
Hell, Michigan, U.S.
Hell, Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands
Hell, Norway, a village in Stjørdal

Here's my source for this info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_%28disambiguation%29

 

[rescuer86]

Dog's can't look up,

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

*slaps wrist* Go watch Shaun of the Dead

Dont worry me and 6 have sorted this one, he told me it was true cause big al says so, i asked if he wanted a drink in the Winchester. It was cool

Wait, Big Al says so? Oh, my bad. Carry on.

 

[rescuer86]

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Time slows down when gravity is increased.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a fan of racism, religous extremism, slavery, Al-Qaeda, Woodrow Wilson, or the Confederate Army.

But you DO seem to be a fan of increasing gravity! Get im!