Useless Facts, The Best Kind of Facts
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So THAT'S why I have never seen a dog before!DarkRyter said:
Hershey's Kisses Are Called That Because The Machine That Makes Them Looks Like It's Kissing The Conveyor Belt.
Human Birth Control Pills Work On Gorillas.
If A Surgeon In Ancient Egypt Lost A Patient While Performing An Operation, His Hands Were Cut Off.
A Broken Clock Is Right At Least Twice A Day.
If One Places A Tiny Amount Of Liquor On A Scorpion, It Will Instantly Go Mad And Sting Itself To Death.
If You Fart Consistently For 6 Years And 9 Months, Enough Gas Is Produced ToCreate An Atomic Bomb.
If You Have A Tapeworm In Your Stomach It Will Come Up While You're Asleep To Lick The Salt Off Your Lips.
The Human Heart Creates Enough Pressure To Squirt Blood 30Ft.
Wrong, why proof by Contradiction:Naheal said:
Assume you are right, then two adjacent lines, i and j (that we have extended into the larger circle) have a angle, x, between them. Now since i and j have just been extended into the larger circle, they must also have the same angle between them in the smaller circle. Now we can draw a line at x/2 degrees from i and j in the smaller circle. We now have infinite + 1 lines in the smaller circle, a contradiction of the earlier definition of the circle having infinite lines.
QED
Umm http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fact, definition of a factDaemascus said:
It would be 1/3, only if all three possibilities would be equally probable...but they aren't...the probability of a coin landing on its side is negligible...ThatLankyBastard said:
On a side note...there is no such thing as probability or chance...everything is predetermined...we only don't have the means to calculate it correctly (or even measure it precisely enough...see Heisenberg...)+
Not true...you generate a lower pressure in your lungs and the (higher) outer pressure forces the air through any aperture available...you also breath through your nostrils if your mouth is open, but since the mouth is a way bigger aperture, more air will be pushed through there...in fact you cannot not breath through both your nostrils unless you hold your nose or it is congested.kurupt87 said:
Another thing is, when you're sleeping...when you're lying on your side, the 'upper' nostril can be blocked by the nasal wing...you may guess why we have evolved to have two of them...
Edit: I forgot to add my own useless fact...if you break someones cheekbone, it will never grow together correctly...
The steam engine was invented in Ancient Greece.
So was the railway, but no-one thought of putting them together.
It is illegal to die in the British Parliament.
In the UK, a pregnant woman may legally relieve herself anywhere, and that includes in a policeman's helmet.
The largest man-made object in the world is Frsh Kills rubbish dump, New York. Or Holland, depending on how you look at it.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
So was the railway, but no-one thought of putting them together.
It is illegal to die in the British Parliament.
In the UK, a pregnant woman may legally relieve herself anywhere, and that includes in a policeman's helmet.
The largest man-made object in the world is Frsh Kills rubbish dump, New York. Or Holland, depending on how you look at it.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
Really?Talal Provides said:
Sight
Hearing
Touch
Taste
Smell
Temperature
Pain / Pleasure
Erogenous sensation
Balance
Probably boyancy
Their supposed electrical sense
Their perception of their body and the physical location it takes up.
Five senses is as ridiculous a notion as there being four elements.
Specific examples (ie. the law is that you can't bring in animals and saying that "bringing in a moose on a watersky is illegal") are one thing but murder is pretty damn illegal, your "fact" is just plain bollocks.
My interesting fact:
Most of "It's legal to X and X in X with an X after X" are made up, as are quite a few of those so called facts you hear on QI. Do not deny it
How do you think they get mead? If it can ferment, it can go off. Honey, being mostly sugar, can keep for a long time - and "edible" honey was found in an Egyptian tomb, but there clearly are conditions that can make it go off, otherwise ancient humans wouldn't have discovered booze.C95J said:
Now McDonalds buns, those won't ever rot.
If you were to convert to every single religion at once, you would live deep underground and mumble scripture the rest of your life.
Cashews are from the same family of plants as poison ivy.
Cashews are from the same family of plants as poison ivy.
But my eyes are green?me.vicky said:
Unless I think dogs are something else... Like a blind guy not knowing what red is.
Thats bullshit.me.vicky said:
Theres no way that can be true, right?
can you prove it (I really wanna know)
A tiger's skin is striped, just like it's fur.
Elephants are the only land mammals that can't jump.
About 30% of the number of bones in your body are in your feet.
The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards that does not have a mustache.
An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
-40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same as -40 degrees Celsius.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and that is why they are on the Australian coat of arms.
The first couple to be featured in bed together on television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, you will have produced the same amount of energy as an atomic bomb.
And for you nerds out there (so, most of you): The biggest pumpkin in the world weighed 1337.6 pounds.
Elephants are the only land mammals that can't jump.
About 30% of the number of bones in your body are in your feet.
The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards that does not have a mustache.
An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
-40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same as -40 degrees Celsius.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and that is why they are on the Australian coat of arms.
The first couple to be featured in bed together on television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, you will have produced the same amount of energy as an atomic bomb.
And for you nerds out there (so, most of you): The biggest pumpkin in the world weighed 1337.6 pounds.
