Tell me useless info you know!

[Tsunimo]

Every continents name starts and ends with the same letter.
The full title of the AK-47 is the 'Automatic Karishnakov model 1947

 

[SquirrelPants]

There is no such thing as useless information, OP! We can always serve to learn something new!

 

[Hydrus]

Well you know what they say- 46.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot...

Yeah, I'd heard that 60% of the time, it works.....everytime.

 

[mornal]

There are 2 popes per square kilometer in Vatican City.

 

[Strumthund]

Gravity is a theory.

 

[MintsMan]

Porcupines have six nipples!

Male echidnas have a four-headed penis

 

[KaosuHamoni]

The barnacle has a longer penis in proportion to its body than any other animal, and, if a human male had one of the same proportions, it would be fifteen feet long.

 

[gostchiken]

The name "Wendy" was made up for the book Peter Pan, before then there was never a recorded Wendy.

 

[Scde2]

Graham crackers and Kellogg corn flakes were originally invented to prevent children from masturbating.

 

[MintsMan]

Six hours of sleep is actually the correct amount and if you get exactly that amount of time, you will be more rested than sleeping eight.

That's because we alternate from light to deep sleep every three hours or so.

 

[Do4600]

Here's some that kinda made my skin crawl a little:

*when inside, you are always within 6 feet of a spider
*The average person consumes 15+ spiders a year while sleeping

That second one is actually wrong... at least I think it was proven wrong!

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

Skittles are the M&M's of the fruit world.

 

[Do4600]

Also that whole "Everyone thought the earth was flat thing"? Bullshit as well, navigation was based on the priniciple that the earth was round and had been since ancient Greece and Egypt.

huhh, i'd kinda like a source for that

First of all, any fool can climb a small mountain and see the curvature of the earth, second, Pythagoras(570BCE) was one of the first persons in record to have thought the earth was round, third Posidonius(135 BCE) calculated the circumference of the earth to be about 25,000 miles, we know now that's exactly 24,901.55 miles.

 

[Space Spoons]

Ryu was born in 1964. Yes, the man's pushing fifty, but he's still throwing orbs of fire from his palms and uppercutting dudes through the roof like it's no big deal.

 

[Pegghead]

One of the first film shots ever recorded in Australia was passengers disembarking from a ferry down at my local Manly wharf.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

a female pigs orgasm lasts HALF.....AN.....HOUR!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Don't look under the mattress. You will find things on the mattress that you will not like.

 

[AngelSword]

Nachos were named for one Ignacio Anaya, believed to be the dish's inventor.

 

[havass]

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren?t added to it.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
And..
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! Over 400!

 

[silver wolf009]

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

Thats has been debunked.


OT: Putting an egg in vinegar will cause its shell to fall off and the yolk to harden.