Tell me useless info you know!

[j0frenzy]

The isotope caesium-137 did not exist in Earth's atmosphere until there was an atomic explosion. This is pretty much only useful to authenticate wines bottled before the 1940s.

 

[signingupforgames]

When you sneeze seven times you just injected the same amount of endorphins into your brain as an orgasm.
...
Also if you stick rolled up toilet paper into your nose and move it slightly you can make yourself sneeze.

 

[ikey]

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..

 

[Dana22]

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.

It was Tengu.

*wink at the fans*

 

[Quantom Quak]

Most toilets flush in E flat. (Eb)

 

[SquadronAce]

There have been over 90 different flavours of Fanta worlewide since its creation in 1942

 

[RebelliousUno]

Ostriches can be trained to herd sheep

 

[LamborghiniJackson]

lobsters have clear blood

 

[Horben]

If you started at a and counted out every letter of the alphabet, every vowel would be odd-numbered.

 

[Oskar K]

When you wake up in the morning, light hurts your eyes.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

There is only one original member of the band Mayhem that hasn't been incarcerated, murdered, thrown in the loony bin, or committed suicide.

Office Space is on IFC right now.

 

[maturin]

The penetrating jet of a shaped charge disintegrates in under 10 times the diameter of the explosive that propels it.

 

[manedwolf86]

You can make 115 lbs. of jerky from one cow

 

[Hydrus]

*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?

Yeah, this is totally false.

 

[ayuri]

on average everyone farts 40 times a day whether they know or not and you are currently breathing billions of different farts over millions of years right now *dino farts

 

[xNaturalMystic]

The Ski-Doo's original name was the Ski-Dog but there was a typo

 

[Mr. Omega]

Play a song that sounds in tune today to Bach, and he'll think it's out of tune, due to some music association deciding to change what was considered "in tune" at some point.

 

[AvsJoe]

I've been playing a lot of Triv (Trivial Pursuit) with my family lately, what do you want to know?

Nixon said "I am not a crook" at Disney World.
Florida's coast has more shipwrecks than any other coastal US state.
The Flintstones was the first primetime television cartoon.
The Soviet Union didn't end their war with Germany until 1955.
The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia.

 

[Squilookle]

*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?

Yeah, this is totally false.

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

 

[Nam Yensa]

The cone snail is the most deadly venomous aquatic creature on the planet

one of the most deadly poisons comes from the skin of a frog