Tell me useless info you know!

[Weslebear]

I cannot vouch for the validity of this fact as I remember it from a documentary about 3 years ago, however I found it amusing, entertaining and completely useless.

Tutankhamun was mummified so that it appeared he had a large erection, this was later snapped off and stolen by grave robbers.

 

[Marmalade]

A²+B²=C²

What if it's not a right angle triangle? What if A or B is the Hypotenuse?
Qualifying statements man!

Your questions... I-I... I really don't know what you mean! I'm bad at math and now I get that ridiculous jargon in English, too!

WAAAAAARGH!

You masquerade as if you have knowledge of math?
For your insolence you must die!

*draws sword*

Have at you!

Joke's on you! *draws Katana* En Garde! (wait, that's out of place... oh well)

This formula has been hammered in our heads at high school! Yet we never see any situation when we need it!

*sword thrust*

*skilful parry*

Well, it's incredibly useful for calculating measurements on a right angled triangle, which comes up a lot in engineering or maths or whatever. It's one of those base rules like a/sina = b/sinb that's just incredibly useful to know in many problems with geometry.

*counter sword thrust*

*step-dodge*

I study Animation yet I want to be an aspiring Game Designer. I don't see any use of this formula at all!

*vertical slice*

This is fucking awesome xD

 

[.Warheart]

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

No foreigner knows the meaning of the word: gezelligheid. The most well known Dutch word is: Apartheid.

I guess you'e talking about Geselligkeit, aren't you?

The famous empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hunagary had an anchor tattooed on her arm.

Oh ho? Is there by any chance you live close to the Netherlands?

well i guess its less than 1 hour from here, yeah.

That explains it. A Dutchman only needs to talk in dialect and a German would be baffled at how well he can speak German. There is this grey area of language between the borders of Germany and The Netherlands.

yeah i guess i know what you are talking about. You don't understand everything clearly but suprisingly know exactly what he/she said.

 

[BrownGaijin]

Rattlesnake is delicious.

Spoiler: Clint Eastwood agrees (7:04 to 7:40)

OT: Oh yeah, say "ten" and repeat "times ten" ten times and you have yourself ten duotrigintillion. Another term for ten duotrigintillion is- OOOOH! SHINY!

01101000 01101001
++++ ++
Both those things mean the same thing. Whoever can guess what I said gets a cookie.

01100011 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110010 01100001 01100100 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011
Wow, takes a long time to type just one word..

Spoiler: whips out converter tool

Hi and congratulations

010010010010000001100001011011010010000000110001001100110011001100110111001000000100100000110100011110000011000001010010

 

[Communist partisan]

what the hell did you do than?

Sat on my bathroom floor and waited it out. It was a weird feeling. I was spasming kinda, not full convulsions or anything like that. More like twitches. I felt really charged and really sick. It went away after a few hours so I didn't go to a doctor.

don't sound so fun.... ofc

 

[manythings]

Apple juice comes from zebras.

PA reference.

Christopher Columbus, contrary to what everyone was always taught, was considered an immense fuckwit, tool and criminal. That's why he, a spaniard, had to go to portugal to get funding for his expedition. 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.

Mole is the number of atoms in a molecule its also comes in Mega and Milla prefixes

A mole is an avogadro's number (6.023 x 10 to the power of 23) of a given atom or molecule. It's basically it's molecular weight in grams. E.g. A mole of Carbon 12 is 12 grams of Carbon 12.

You yourself are a tool
First of Cristopher Columbus was italian and His funding came from spain......
At first people called him a madman but later on he got his way

I was corrected long before now.

 

[manythings]

Apple juice comes from zebras.

PA reference.

Christopher Columbus, contrary to what everyone was always taught, was considered an immense fuckwit, tool and criminal. That's why he, a spaniard, had to go to portugal to get funding for his expedition. 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.

Mole is the number of atoms in a molecule its also comes in Mega and Milla prefixes

A mole is an avogadro's number (6.023 x 10 to the power of 23) of a given atom or molecule. It's basically it's molecular weight in grams. E.g. A mole of Carbon 12 is 12 grams of Carbon 12.

Columbus was Italian, and he got the funding in what today is known as Spain.

OT: People used to search for the Fountain of Youth in America, and they thought that at the far reaches of the world, there were people who had feet on their head, and walked upside down.

Too late I was already corrected. ;P

No heads either, just sort of chest faces. I blame cartographers and poor translations... or people who laughed themselves to sleep at night thinking of the crazy crap they got people to believe.

 

[illas]

Light travels at 186,291 miles/second in a vacuum.

Furthermore, a a lightyear ("ly") is a measure of *distance* (not time); namely how far light can travel in a vacuum in a year. This distance is:
186,219 (1 second) x 3,600 (seconds in an hour) x 24 (hours in a day) x 365 (days in a year)
= 5874872986000 miles. (5.9 trillion).

Astrophysics FTW.

 

[illas]

Oh, and 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321 - which I rather like.

 

[JimJamJahar]

This thread reminds me that a new series of QI starts today! Hooray!

 

[BrownGaijin]

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language.

Intriguing. How so?

Another useless fact: typing the word hoax after any conspiracy or upcoming prophecy will send you to a whole different set of websites as opposed to not typing it in.

 

[Dapsen]

Once again I'm trapped in a world of emotions, deep thought, and contemplating philosophy, religion and life.

I have no idea which way I'll come out of it, but I do hope it will be with her.
-That's my useless information.

 

[Communist partisan]

Once again I'm trapped in a world of emotions, deep thought, and contemplating philosophy, religion and life.

I have no idea which way I'll come out of it, but I do hope it will be with her.
-That's my useless information.

Yepp, it is. Whait, what? were you serious, I don't think so but it's still worth asking^^

 

[-Ezio-]

The reason why putting up two fingers is seen as an insult is because it originally was a symbol the british would use to the French. We were regarded as some of the best archers in the world and when caught by the French they would remove those two fingers. Sticking them up at the French is basically saying "I still have my fingers and could kill you still". Its just evolved to mean "F**k you".

actually that's not true, that "fact" was only made up in about the 1970s. it rly does just mean f**k you. sad rly coz i liked the fake explanation.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Connect 4 was invented by David Bowie!

*giggle*

No he didn't, stop spreading misinformation. That was a rumour put out by a radio host.

Haha, I know it's not true. Hence the giggle.

Ah. Sorry 'bout that.

 

[gostchiken]

Frankenstein never scared me.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

It was his sled.

 

[magicaxis]

the term "Rule of thumb" was an actual law a long time ago, which stated that you could beat your wife with objects no wider than your thumb.

This isn't true!

:O but it was in horrible histories magazine!