Tell me useless info you know!

[Fridge]

DEATH likes kittens and one of the few things that angers 'him' is abusing cats

DISCWORLD YES! He also likes roses. Black roses. Because black goes with everything.

finally someone who gets it, Ive had two people think that the death from conkers is the real one

Seriously? Even with the blatent Paul Kidby image?

 

[The3rdEye]

Defenestration: The act of throwing an object or person out a of a window.

Defenestration: A term whose first and prime recorded example was in Prague in the 1600's, when what is currently known as the Czech Republic was known as Bohemia.

I see a little silhouette of a man... flying through a window...

 

[Geo88]

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You are also incapable of making exact change for $1.00.

 

[Urgh76]

Here you go

 

[Worgen]

DEATH likes kittens and one of the few things that angers 'him' is abusing cats

DISCWORLD YES! He also likes roses. Black roses. Because black goes with everything.

finally someone who gets it, Ive had two people think that the death from conkers is the real one

Seriously? Even with the blatent Paul Kidby image?

I know right, but instead the first 2 ppl I got were like "ohh no death hates cats" then quoted shit from conkers

 

[Fridge]

DEATH likes kittens and one of the few things that angers 'him' is abusing cats

DISCWORLD YES! He also likes roses. Black roses. Because black goes with everything.

finally someone who gets it, Ive had two people think that the death from conkers is the real one

Seriously? Even with the blatent Paul Kidby image?

I know right, but instead the first 2 ppl I got were like "ohh no death hates cats" then quoted shit from conkers

I wouldn't be able to qoute that anyway I never played that game. Besides Discworld Death is just so ace, he's bad at golf y'know.

 

[Drakmorg]

That a Terabyte is equal to approximately 8,796,092,000,000 Bits of Data. Although that might actually be useful to someone.

Raccoons are members of the bear family.

White gold is actually an alloy, composed of gold and either nickel (although many places have outlawed the use of nickel in this respect as many people have allergic reactions to nickel) or palladium. Although Rhodium plating of gold rings has recently grown in popularity among jewelry makers.

 

[CaptainKoala]

Everything I've ever learned came from this page:
http://wambooli.com/fun/fyi/

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

The story of Jules Brunet, who inspired the character of Nathan Algren, played by Tom Cruise in the 2003 movie "the Last Samurai".

The French officer Jules Brunet played an active role during the Boshin War, leading the rebellion against the Imperial Nippon, in 1868-69.

"A revolution is forcing the Military Mission to return to France. Alone I stay, alone I wish to continue, under new conditions, the results obtained by the Mission, together with the Party of the North, which is the party favorable to France in Japan. Soon a reaction will take place, and the Daimyos of the North have offered me to be its soul".
? Jules Brunet, Letter to Napoleon III

here's the video related to it:

 

[Dango]

In WWII over a hundred American soldiers were lost attacking a pacific island with absolutely no enemies on it.

 

[Squilookle]

The shape of a Pringle crisp (or chip) is a hyperbolic parabaloid.

But what do you call a 3D Oval!? it's been driving me insane for years!

*The average person consumes 15+ spiders a year while sleeping

I heard it was 11, and anyway it's the stupidest statistic ever- how on earth do they measure that? The person isn't awake to notice and the spiders- if there are in fact there at all- sure won't be able to say much about it now would they?

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

In WWII over a hundred American soldiers were lost attacking a pacific island with absolutely no enemies on it.

UFO's maybe ?

 

[Worgen]

DEATH likes kittens and one of the few things that angers 'him' is abusing cats

DISCWORLD YES! He also likes roses. Black roses. Because black goes with everything.

finally someone who gets it, Ive had two people think that the death from conkers is the real one

Seriously? Even with the blatent Paul Kidby image?

I know right, but instead the first 2 ppl I got were like "ohh no death hates cats" then quoted shit from conkers

I wouldn't be able to qoute that anyway I never played that game. Besides Discworld Death is just so ace, he's bad at golf y'know.

and he also forgets how the horse moves in chess

 

[Dango]

In WWII over a hundred American soldiers were lost attacking a pacific island with absolutely no enemies on it.

UFO's maybe ?

My friends and I had a conversation about this. We decided that it was bees. It's always the bees.

 

[Firehopper]

I can tell you the cost of any unit in a great deal of RTS games. Sadly this will never help me in life.

/facepalm

Orc Shaman in WC3 and a Musketeer in AOE 3.

Kgo.

 

[Piecewise]

Over 60% of the world (and 10% of America) is infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasmosis. In rats and other infected animals this parasite subtly alters brain chemistry and personality,making the infected creature more reckless and likely to be eaten. It's thought that it alters the personalities of infected humans as well. Problem is that the manipulation is so subtle it's difficult to tell.

 

[SirBingo]

Useless info.. uh, pennies aren't food.

 

[blankedboy]

The shape of a Pringle crisp (or chip) is a hyperbolic parabaloid.

And the shape of a soccerball is a truncated icosahedron.

 

[Tdc2182]

The term "Big Bang" was actually presented by a scientist content on disproving the theory, but it was so catchy that it became the official term for it.

Edit: this thread just distracted me from talking to someone I have been waiting up for about 2 hours for her to get on...

 

[Slaanax]

There is enough to concrete to in the Hoover Dam to wrap around the equator of the earth in a 4ft strip.

A googol is 10^100 zeros. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A googolplex is 10^googol 10^(10^100)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex the most interesting number in the world.

Consider printing the digits of a googolplex in unreadable, one-point font (0.353 mm per digit). It would take about 3.5 × 1096 metres to write a googolplex in one-point font. The observable universe is estimated to be 8.80 × 1026 meters, or 93 billion light-years, in diameter,[3] so the distance required to write the necessary zeroes is longer than the estimated universe.

Graham's number bigger than a googleplex

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

Lol wiki has interesting facts in it.