The most useless knowledge you possess

[lechat]

So what is the one piece of knowledge so obscure and so useless that there is basically no way you will ever need to know it and no likelihood that you would ever meet someone who needed to know it?

For me the most useless fact i can bestow upon the masses is this:
Cockroaches are incredibly drawn to the smell of urine and banana peels so much so that if you ever need to attract a large amount of roaches to a spot there is more than likely no better bait.

 

[JoJo]

Though the British monarchy appears to only use the ordinals of the preceding English monarchs, since the sixties it has been policy to use the highest ordinal reached by either an English or Scottish monarch, helped by the fact that this system works retrospectively for all the monarchs we've had since the birth of the Union. While in effect this means little as those in the immediate line of succession all have traditional English monarchical names and so would become Charles III, William V, George VII etc assuming they kept their birth names upon ascension, if we were to have a King Alexander or David for example, due to previous Scottish monarchs they would become Alexander IV or David III of the United Kingdom.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Of out of the mane 6, Twilight Sparkle is the only pony with 4 syllables in her name while the others are three. What? The op state a useless knowledge.

 

[Abbyka]

Everything from my public high school education. lol But if you need something specific I've long since forgot it because it really WAS useless information. Being a stay at home mom I absolutely don't need to know anything about rocks(Earth Science) and I can use a damn calculator all I want(complicated math, suck it math teacher).

Besides that: Honey doesn't spoil. Coca Cola was originally green and was originally created as a nerve tonic, not a soda. It was supposed to cure headaches, help with nerves, and fatigue.

 

[Bizzaro Stormy]

Though the British monarchy appears to only use the ordinals of the preceding English monarchs, since the sixties it has been policy to use the highest ordinal reached by either an English or Scottish monarch, helped by the fact that this system works retrospectively for all the monarchs we've had since the birth of the Union. While in effect this means little as those in the immediate line of succession all have traditional English monarchical names and so would become Charles III, William V, George VII etc assuming they kept their birth names upon ascension, if we were to have a King Alexander or David for example, due to previous Scottish monarchs they would become Alexander IV or David III of the United Kingdom.

So since James I of England was also James VI of Scotland, would a new King James cause a sudden confusing numerical jump?

 

[JoJo]

Though the British monarchy appears to only use the ordinals of the preceding English monarchs, since the sixties it has been policy to use the highest ordinal reached by either an English or Scottish monarch, helped by the fact that this system works retrospectively for all the monarchs we've had since the birth of the Union. While in effect this means little as those in the immediate line of succession all have traditional English monarchical names and so would become Charles III, William V, George VII etc assuming they kept their birth names upon ascension, if we were to have a King Alexander or David for example, due to previous Scottish monarchs they would become Alexander IV or David III of the United Kingdom.

So since James I of England was also James VI of Scotland, would a new King James cause a sudden confusing numerical jump?

Yeah, and since James II was also James VII of Scotland as this was prior to the Union too, we would look forward to a confusing James VIII of the United Kingdom. In practice, I'm sure the Royal family deliberately avoid assigning any names that could cause confusion to the immediate line of succession, expect a steady diet of Georges, Edwards and Williams for the next two hundred years

 

[Zhukov]

Flies and ants won't eat margarine.

They don't even register that shit as food. Flies will eat shit, literally, and ants will eat, well, anything. But margarine? NOPE.

 

[Bizzaro Stormy]

Though the British monarchy appears to only use the ordinals of the preceding English monarchs, since the sixties it has been policy to use the highest ordinal reached by either an English or Scottish monarch, helped by the fact that this system works retrospectively for all the monarchs we've had since the birth of the Union. While in effect this means little as those in the immediate line of succession all have traditional English monarchical names and so would become Charles III, William V, George VII etc assuming they kept their birth names upon ascension, if we were to have a King Alexander or David for example, due to previous Scottish monarchs they would become Alexander IV or David III of the United Kingdom.

So since James I of England was also James VI of Scotland, would a new King James cause a sudden confusing numerical jump?

Yeah, and since James II was also James VII of Scotland as this was prior to the Union too, we would look forward to a confusing James VIII of the United Kingdom. In practice, I'm sure the Royal family deliberately avoid assigning any names that could cause confusion to the immediate line of succession, expect a steady diet of Georges, Edwards and Williams for the next two hundred years

They could try Peter, or go with Alfred if they're feeling old fashioned.

 

[happyninja42]

I can recite the Greek alphabet using a little sing song rhyme I was taught in middle school. That's probably my most useless bit of information that I can think of anyway.

 

[2HF]

Fallout Boy is named after a character in a movie being filmed within a TV show. Bart auditions for the role and hears the following from the casting people. "Congratulations!!! You're the new Fallout Boy!", " That's what I'd be saying to you if you weren't an inch too short". He then proceeds to wear platform shoes, a striped suit, and escort a tiny dog around to look taller. Milhouse gets the role.

This one scene from this one random ass episode of the Simpsons is the most vivid memory I have from that show. I've never been a fan but I remember this. It was only many years later, and in fact only some weeks ago, that I learned that Fallout Boy takes it's name from this episode, but the episode has been burned in my mind for possibly over a decade.

 

[Odbarc]

I think my most useless knowledge, in practical application versus time invested to learn, would be French.
It's not useless to other people, but I spent years in school with teachers trying to teach it to me and I've never once used it in real life.
Those useless math equations they teach that people say you'll never use once you leave high school? I've used that a bunch of times.

As far as obscure information...
My dad used to tell me 'dude' meant a pimple on a horses ass.

 

[Bizzaro Stormy]

Abraham Lincoln once had a patent on a riverboat design.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Yeah, and since James II was also James VII of Scotland as this was prior to the Union too, we would look forward to a confusing James VIII of the United Kingdom. In practice, I'm sure the Royal family deliberately avoid assigning any names that could cause confusion to the immediate line of succession, expect a steady diet of Georges, Edwards and Williams for the next two hundred years

I've got my money riding on Aethelstan. I've got a good feeling about it.

 

[PointlessKnowledge]

Michael J Fox's middle name is Andrew.

 

[L. Declis]

Kellogg's Cornflakes was originally made as an anti-masturbation aid, as Dr. Kellogg believed that high fibre would help lower those dirty urges.

The saucer you have with a cup of tea was originally designed for you to pour the tea into and let it cool down quicker, and you drank it from the saucer, not the cup.

Saddam Hussien was once given the key to the City of Detroit.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Spongebob Squarepants lives in Bikini Bottom.

It's not just a stupid pun, but Bikini Bottom is supposed to be the bottom of Bikini Atoll, a real Pacific Island - Where the Americans tested nuclear weapons.

Ergo Spongebob Squarepants and all the bizarre things in his show are simply mutated anomalies of nuclear radiation.

 

[sky14kemea]

Ducks have a corkscrew penis, and cats have a barbed penis.

Or is it the other way around...

I'll be back at 10pm for more strange penis-based facts.

 

[Barbas]

The J in Homer J Simpson stands for Jay. His secret shame is that he likes to eat flowers and his favourite song it 'It's Raining Men' by The Weather Girls.

 

[Silent Protagonist]

Anything about the specific mechanics of games I no longer play, particularly details about the drop rates of certain items or the efficiency of different play styles and stuff like that that can't help me or others in any other game.

Non-gaming: One that came up recently was that I know quite a bit about steel, its various versions/types, different manufacture methods, the various properties different kinds of steel have, how different environmental and secondary manufacturing processes can change those properties. I needed to learn those things for an engineering class I took but now I do not work with steel, especially not in a manner in which that kind of information would be useful.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

The dividing line used in fractions is called a vinculum.

I know my phone number in binary.

The monkey-lizard pet thing Jabba has in Return of the Jedi is named Salacious B. Crumb.