Post your useless pointless Factoids!
I'll start.
- Every U.S. bill, regardless of denomination, costs about 4 cents to make.
- The song "Happy Birthday" brings in about $2 million in revenue to the people who hold the copyright.
Source: Fruit by the Foot. :D
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A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called
Source: http://www.wambooli.com/fun/fyi/ (http://"http://www.wambooli.com/fun/fyi/")
Wow Antonio, you just found another way for me to kill downtime at work. :hick:
Heres some I heard a long time ago.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (dont ask)
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
Ill stop there I can go on for hours...
One more for the parents with kids or for the kids themselves who know about them.
pokemon= pocket monster
Nasa made some ball bearing for a satlite they are the most pefect spheres know to man. If you were to blow them up the size of earth the biggest mountain would be as tall as a sheet of paper is thick.
I got a few.....
- FORD MOTOR COMPNAY was founded on June. 16, 1903.
- IN 1916, 55% of all cars were Ford Model T's.
- The Ford Thunderbird was debuted on October. 22, 1954
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Not ball bearings, but rather gyroscopes for Gravity Probe B.
Elephants are the only animal in the world that can't jump.
Polar bears are not white. Their skin is black and their fur is actually clear (and hollow). The clear fur acts like millions of fiberoptic strands, carrying sunlight directly to their black skin which absorbs the heat,thus keeping them warm. The fur, being hollow, acts as an excellent insulation trapping that heat.
A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (in my next life I want to come back as a pig)
The Daddy Long Legs spider has the most potent venom in the world, however, its fangs are too short to penetrate human skin and is not capable of injecting a large enough dose to be fatal to humans.
Hippos fling their own dung with their tails as a sign they are angry.
Mythbusters proved that one to be false.
the mother of Monkee's bandmember Mike Nesmith invented liquid paper.
from:
http://arborwiki.org/city/Ypsilanti_Water_Tower
Located at the highest point of elevation of the city on Summit Street, the Ypsilanti Water Tower is no longer in practical use but remains an important local landmark. Long known locally for its suggestive shape, a recent article in Cabinet Magazine deemed it to be the World's Most Phallic Building. What did you see when you reached the summit?
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this @ home!)
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
That one is false. It was the subject of quite a bit of controversy in 1986 when the bill first came out, and at first glance it actually does look like an American flag, but in actuality it is the Red Ensign, Canada's flag before the maple leaf was adopted. the box in the upper left corner of the flag that everyone assumed was the stars is actually the Union Jack. It's all moot, though - the Canadian $2 was phased out of circulation in 1996 when the "toonie" coin came out.
*EDIT* It was actually the $5 and $10's that had the Red Ensign. The $2 had the maple leaf. A writeup about the urban legend on Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp
Some other strange facts:
- The Thunderbird was the first domestic car to feature bucket seats and a full console.
- It was also the first car to use sequential turn signals. The Cougar and Shelby Mustangs came later. The only other manufacturer to have used them was Chrysler, on the 1970 Imperial
I'll have to dig out my Thunderbird book for more, but there are a surprising number of modern conveniences in cars that made their debut on T-Birds...
Thundergrowl could probably add many more, but some other Newfoundland names that could be construed as shagual:
Placentia
Come By Chance
Blow Me Down
Lushes Bight
...and one in Nova Scotia:
Meat Cove
That reminds me.
The toilet got the nickname "per" from the first guy to mass produced them. His last name was per.
Source: Modern Marvels (going off of memory)
There is a town in Michigan named Hell, so in fact Hell does freeze over.
In west virginia it is legal to **** a chicken.
in MN it isn't.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it!)
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have shag for pleasure. Is that why Flipper was always smiling? And, why isn't the pig included in this list?)
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of...? Did the U.S. government pay for this research??)
Polar bears are left handed. (Who knew....?)
A pen 15roach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates shag by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. Wow!!! You look great! What the... ...Aaaaaaarrrg!!!")
Butterflies taste with their feet. (Oh, yum!)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that, too!)
Hate. spiders. Ugh!
Only 3% water of the earth is fresh. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.
The Peregrine Falcon around 200mph (320 km/h) is the fastest bird on the planet, the top speed recorded is 242.3mph (390 km/h). - !
Source: http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/winfo/earth1.htm & Modern Marvels.
in west virginia, you are allowed to check in your personal road kill such as deer.
One of the coolest experiments ever conducted!
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
Useless factoid?
theres places in west virginia where its illigal to ride your fourwheeler off-road, buts its perfectly legal to ride them on the street. how backasswards is that?
Chicago is the only city where the state, county, and city level a tax on gas:mad: :asshole:
$1.19 is the largest amount of money you could hold in coins and not be able to make exactly $1.00. (Ex: 3 Quarters, 4 Dimes, 4 Pennies.)
Lightning strikes men about four times more often than it strikes women.
Source: http://samvak.tripod.com/factoidsindex.html
There's a town here in WV called Pie :dunno:
There's also Hurricane, Tornado and Nitro.
I got an intresting one
[COLOR="Red"]" The 221, 260, 289 and BOSS 302 connecting rod later found it's way into the 2.3L OHC Turbo fours found in the T-bird Turbo Coupe, Cougar XR-7, Mustang GT Turbo, and Capri RS Turbo available during the 1980's"[/COLOR]
Found in Ford Engine Parts Interchange , By; George Reid
Page 31
or maybe guys are just stupid enough to be outside in the rain......
my addition to this collection.......The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
and for those of you in love with spiders (especially my wife).....The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
and here's one for you guys....Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. (
or scarlet johansen :))
for those of you living out your life in the buckeye state.....
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
and finally for you FoMoCo lifers.....
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The human head weighs 8 pounds.
Jerry McGuire
Linky to info (http://"http://news.carjunky.com/car_insurance/motor_vehicle_accident_facts.shtml")
I always wanted to own a Ford Beaver
Linky to Info (http://"http://www.mustangandfords.com/featuredvehicles/mufp_0607_1967_ford_thunderbird/vintage_t_bird.html")
Henry Ford originally owned Cadillac.
Holley made a better car back in the early 1900's. Ford bought the company to avoid competition. Then used their carbs on his engines.
Can you document that one???
News to me. I've never heard this one before, in any form
I have a big pen 15.
And it's made of silicone and vibrates like crazy when you put 4 size "D"s in it.:laughing:
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.
When police arrived in Appleton, Wisconsin to remove a woman's children because of a complaint that she had given her 11-year-old daughter a "swirlie" (Holding her head in a flushing toilet). The woman reportedly said, "I haven't had a vacation in 13 years, go ahead and take them!"
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own Grandpa.
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Mine vibrates like crazy when you put it in 2 size "DD"s :hick:
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Tmi!!
What I posted was originally read in a hot rodder magazine. However this site link would seem to make it a little less overbearing.
http://www.smethporthistory.org/bradford/davis.street/bovaird/holley/holleycarboratorco.html
LOL ah god you sir just made my day.
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
If you can read this , you have a strange mind too...
Can you read this? Only 55 people out of 100 can. I couldn't believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter what order the letters in a word are, only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place...
Anyone want to finish it??? No I did NOT use spell check...
I actually read it fine the first time :) I just started reading and kind of amazed myself at how easy it was too read. Goes to show you that using proper grammar is more important than actually spelling the word right.
If its so easy to interpret our own language when it has been butchered like so you would think it would be easier to learn a new language..
The pontiac Trans-Am. Its name came from the popular Trans American racing series, though the car never actually competed in Trans Am racing.
In Penn there is a town named Intercourse and Bird in hand. In NC there is a town named Climax.
Hell is in Michigan... Don't believe me??? Look it up... oops dupped...
That's awesome. :D
- On average, left-handed people type ten words per minute faster than right-handed people.
- Eight out of 15 Americans said they would replace their TV if the remote were lost.
- In the United States, for every $1 spent on fireworks, there is $12.46 worth of property damaged caused by them.
Source: http://gullible.info/archive.php?m=2007-07
Sounds like we've turned into a bunch of stupid fornicateers...
Hey Carm are Canadians any smarter??? If it didn't get so cold up there I'd consider moving...
I dunno about smarter... better looking maybe, but not sure about smarter :hick:
If you don't like the cold you could always move to coastal BC - they have a climate much like Washington or Oregon. Better bring an umbrella, though (and chopsticks - Asians everywhere)
The latest target of an RIAA suit is NASA, for playing copyrighted music over space shuttle air-to-ground communications, which are public frequencies. NASA traditionally plays wake-up songs to astronauts each morning.
I hope this is more oid than fact.
Pontiac's GTO was named for a class of European endurance racing
Gran Turismo Olmalgato, (Grand Touring Homologated) though Pontiac never competed in it. (Was also a very famous and successful Ferrari model)
The Pontiac LeMans was named after the famous 24 hour hour race in France, though Pontiac never competed in it.
The Pontiac Grand Prix (Big Prize) Was named for the open wheel racing Series now called Formula 1, though Pontiac never competed in it.
The Pontiac Grand Am was named for an American raod racing series, though Pontiac never cometed in it.
Am I seeing a patern here?
I'm wating for them to name a car Indianapolis 500.
This interests me. I'm skeptical of these two ideas, but I'd like to see some more information on them.
Does glass have some resilient features that have been unexplored? I would think that the fracture point of a sphere of glass would far exceed the bouncing point.
I suppose a sphere a steel could be plausible, but I'm curious about glass.
On another note: Has anybody heard the theory that glass is physically a liquid?
no, its not really a solid or a liquid. the molecules arent lined up in as straight or as tight as a solid, but its not as wild and loosey-goosey as a liquid. a picture would explain better but i cant find one
thanks history channel! ;)
All I know is that on our humvees in Iraq, the glass armor stopped more flying debris than any other part of the trucks armor. Debris was always getting through the steel plating no problem....but the glass would just buldge waaayy out and stop the blast and steel and all. I have pictures of this after a big IED but I am not allowed to post these kind of pictures. But glass is more of a liquid than a solid is what they tell us.
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Glass flows...very, very slowly.
Measurements of OLD glass (like found in the stained glass windows some very old European churches) are actually a little bit thicker near the bottom, and thinner near the top.
Royce your probably full of useless factoid's! Being a teacher and all.. I'm sure you have a bunch, like math for instance!
A lot of my wasted brain capacity is actually from Star Trek!
First interracial kiss shown on television: Kirk and Uhura (though they were being "forced" by alien mind control).
Not just Star Trek though...
First married couple shown to actually sleep in the same bed: Brady Bunch people like to claim it was Mike and Carol Brady...but it was actually Herman and Lily Muster on The Munsters. (Mike and Carol still win for being the first Humans! ;) )
I saw a show recently that disproved this. They stated that the glass was made thicker at the bottom originally, though I can't remember why.
I stand corrected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Glass_as_a_liquid (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Glass_as_a_liquid")
I love Wikipedia!