Useless trivia

[ffxfriek]

2+2 is four. Just kidding.
OT: The male seahorse actually is the one to give birth to babies.

you serious? thats crazy.

 

[Wintermoot]

Dolphins are the only creatures (next to humans) to have sex for pleasure instead of procreation

 

[XJ-0461]

James Cameron's previous 2 films have made more than $3 Billion at the box office.

 

[Bato]

Floccinaucinihilipilification is a word in the English language coined by students in Eton College that made it into some dictionaries somehow.

It is the act of describing something as worthless.
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/floccinaucinihilipilification?view=uk

I may be wrong but I think it started as a joke among the students in Eton, it being a combination of latin words.
Flocci, from floccus, being a wisp or piece of wool;
Nauci a from naucum, a trifle;
Nihili, from nihilum, meaning litterally nothing;
Pili, from pilus, meaning something small or insignificant;
And -fication as the prefix.


Now I have contributed my useless trivia.

 

[ayuri]

America's national anthem is based on the war of 1812
Moose in plural is meese
Because of gravity no shape can be a perfect sphere
Ivan the Terrible's name translate to Ivan the Awesome in english
Gamecubes have been often used as lunchboxes for their durability
Under rule of Napoleon the french army practiced their cannons on the sphinxes
One of the worlds first most popular videos on the internet was of a dancing virtual baby
Up in the middle of space you wold half freeze half burn becaise of the suns rays
Some German troops celebrated christmas during WW2 with their enemy inbetween both trenches

The writer of the human comedy (very old) was named Honere de Balzac
After 200 years skin in an airtight room would turn to dust at first contact with air
Leet 1337 was the year the hundred year war started
Knowledge is a great thing to find suttle information

 

[Labyrinth]

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Can I just say that quoting the troll just makes work harder for me when I have to go through and either edit or wipe your posts. Kindly don't.

 

[ayuri]

you have bashed every post in sure of it and i know that not all of those facts are wrong

 

[wordsmith]

At this current time, of the 7 "Most Recent Posts" on the homepage, there are 4 threads about spiderman being canceled.

 

[A Random Reader]

"poppycock" means "soft cow droppings"

 

[lenin_117]

a mol of any gas (6.02 x 10(to the 23) particles)

is 22.4 liters in volume

In STP

 

[FactualSquirrel]

the lowest temperature possible is -273 celcius

I'd be more impressed if you can tell me what that is in Farenheit and what the scientific term for it is called.

in farenheit?

-394.6 degrees farenheit. it is known as Absolute Zero.

Oooo, you got the second part right. It's -459 dgrees farenheit.

the lowest temperature possible is -273 celcius

I'd be more impressed if you can tell me what that is in Farenheit and what the scientific term for it is called.

absolute zero and at farenheit it is -459º

Correct. Now just one question: for your internet cookie, raisen or chocolate chip?

Don'e give him a cookie, as Absolute zero has been repeatedly proved to be not the coldest possible temperature. Well, it's by 0.1 of a degree, but that's not the point.

 

[Teh Flembo]

On average baby elephants weigh roughly 16 stone.

 

[traceur_]

Don'e give him a cookie, as Absolute zero has been repeatedly proved to be not the coldest possible temperature. Well, it's by 0.1 of a degree, but that's not the point.

I think it's inherently implied that he meant the lowest theoretically possible temperature.

 

[traceur_]

Pugs are the terrible horribly bred genetically terrible creation of humans. They are nature's joke.

Pandas are evolutionary failures.

We learnt about this in school - is it to do with crushing each other when mating or something?

Pandas? They're terrible parents, and they usually only have one kid a time.
They have a carnivore's digestive system but eat mostly bamboo. Because of this their body can't process most of what they eat and thus they have minimal energy to do...well anything. So that's why they spend almost all their time eating bamboo, so they can get what minimal energy they do have.
People try so hard to save them for no bloody reason, they'd go extinct pretty well without human help anyway.

And don't they just plain suck at sex? I heard that zookeepers in China basically tried showing them panda porn so they could figure out what to do.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

I think it's inherently implied that he meant the lowest theoretically possible temperature.

Well, it's actually been done as well. Although I guess that's not possible naturally.