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The Mud Pit => General => Topic started by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:06:38 PM

Title: Useless Facts
Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:06:38 PM
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:07:12 PM
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:07:32 PM
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:07:56 PM
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:09:56 PM
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:10:18 PM
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:11:01 PM
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:11:22 PM
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:11:48 PM
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:12:18 PM
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:12:44 PM
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:13:05 PM
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:13:32 PM
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:14:00 PM
# Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:14:19 PM
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:15:02 PM
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:15:17 PM
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:15:50 PM
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:16:34 PM
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:18:24 PM
Almonds are members of the peach family.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:19:12 PM
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:19:43 PM
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:20:40 PM
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:21:35 PM
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:21:57 PM
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:23:05 PM
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:23:23 PM
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:23:44 PM
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:24:14 PM
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:24:34 PM
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:25:15 PM
n the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:25:48 PM
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:27:22 PM
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:27:55 PM
Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:30:23 PM
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:30:43 PM
Walt Disney was afraid of mice
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:31:01 PM
Turtles can breathe through their butts
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:33:50 PM
Turtles can breathe through their butts
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:35:06 PM
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:35:25 PM
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:35:43 PM
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:36:02 PM
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:36:44 PM
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:37:01 PM
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:37:30 PM
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:37:52 PM
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
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Post by: Seabee_BUC on February 03, 2009, 03:50:45 PM
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

I'm not going to ask how...
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Post by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:57:59 PM
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

I'm not going to ask how...

Makes ya think though doesn't it :D
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Post by: rocket on February 03, 2009, 05:08:22 PM
Beleive it or not, this thread just cheered me up!
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Post by: Seabee_BUC on February 03, 2009, 08:34:33 PM
And you were sad why???   ???
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Post by: Swagger on February 03, 2009, 09:39:34 PM
what would life be without a bunch of totally useless crap to ponder on.  now i something to do until the meeting tonight. ;D
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Post by: rocket on February 03, 2009, 10:34:32 PM
And you were sad why???   ???

not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding
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Post by: PaulW on February 04, 2009, 02:17:38 AM
And you were sad why???   ???

not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding

I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post.  It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.
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Post by: mallcrawl on February 06, 2009, 02:07:29 AM
And you were sad why???   ???

not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding

I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post.  It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.

thank you, readingthis seems t have killed off someoveractive brain cells
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Post by: PaulW on February 06, 2009, 02:15:59 AM
And you were sad why???   ???

not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding

I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post.  It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.

thank you, readingthis seems t have killed off someoveractive brain cells
yea brain cells bad.  alright brain, i don't like you, and you don't like me, now let's get through this so I can continue killing you with beer!
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Post by: Axle on February 07, 2009, 02:19:29 AM
So this went from useless facts to famous Homer Simpson quotes?
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Post by: PaulW on February 07, 2009, 04:57:27 PM
So this went from useless facts to famous Homer Simpson quotes?

sure why not homers quotes are usually useless anyways.

"to start press the any key", "well where's the any key??"
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Post by: Sandbox Sailor on February 09, 2009, 11:04:28 PM
And you were sad why???   ???

not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding

I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post.  It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.

thank you, readingthis seems t have killed off someoveractive brain cells
yea brain cells bad.  alright brain, i don't like you, and you don't like me, now let's get through this so I can continue killing you with beer!


Mmmmm.... Beeer....
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Post by: PaulW on February 10, 2009, 01:01:30 AM
To alcohol the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems.
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Post by: HOT-ROD on February 11, 2009, 03:51:54 AM
there are 17000 air planes in the world. at least 4000 of them are in the air at any given time.
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Post by: PaulW on February 11, 2009, 07:16:02 AM
there are 17000 air planes in the world. at least 4000 of them are in the air at any given time.

and one in a river