The useless facts thread

[Bugman]

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.

 

[Lamashtu]

Ants are the most common food for pitcher plants.

 

[Jason Reborn]

The odds of two brown haired parents having a blonde haired child is nearly impossible.

 

[playgirl]

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.

hahaha, i love it!!! thanks for starting this thread. i'm sure this will just the first of many interesting facts to flow from the minds who form ssf.

i only have two lame useless facts off the top of my head. in the late 1990's, around 1998:
1. salsa surpassed ketchup as the most frequently used condiment; and
2. people spent more time online than watching tv.
3. the only reason i know these two facts is because i did a presentation for a job interview and called it "salsa and surfing"

 

[Jason Reborn]

Fish can breathe under water 😀

 

[paracarl44]

Roaches Love to eat the glue on envelopes and boxes.

 

[Bugman]

The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

 

[Gothika]

um i love pie

 

[milagros317]

MOTHER IN LAW is an anagram for WOMAN HITLER
😛

 

[Bugman]

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.) 😉

 

[milagros317]

I don't have an ostrich. 😀

 

[paracarl44]

The white bikini worn by Ursula Andress in the James Bond Movie "Dr. No" sold for 35,000 pounds in 2001.

 

[Bugman]

The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

 

[Jason Reborn]

Stull, Kansas is reported to being one of the Most Unholiest Places on Earth because of the tradgedy that happened there (ie demonic/satanic rituals, blood rites, etc..)

 

[milagros317]

The most commonly used letters in English words are: E, T, A, I, N, S, H, R, D, L, U (in decreasing order of usage). 😀

 

[Bugman]

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

 

[Bugman]

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are always clockwise.This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

 

[Radiohead 7140]

Reno is west of Los Angeles

 

[poopies]

The Eastern Grey Kangaroo is the fastest marsupial.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 😱

 

[The Fallen Angel]

its impossible to keep your eyes open while sneezing

 

[goddess_nemesis]

If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

 

[The Fallen Angel]

Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.