The useless facts thread

[Bugman]

Eosophobia is the fear of dawn.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

 

[Bugman]

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

Don't tell maniac that.😱


The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Only female mosquitoes bite.

 

[Bizkit]

Judo translates to ''The Gentle Way'' in Japanese

 

[His Divine Shadow]

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp).

 

[♡AimLEE♡]

I have 2 older sisters.

 

[leafstk]

Gin and diet coke are NOT a good mix

 

[Bugman]

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

 

[paracarl44]

The Gatling Gun was invented by Dr. Richard J. Gatling.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

 

[c7_assassin]

The King of Ethiopia once imported an electric chair from the States, and because there was no electricity in Ethiopia, he used it as his royal throne.😱

 

[goddess_nemesis]

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

 

[McNoodle]

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

 

[Bugman]

Robert Todd Lincoln arrived too late to stop three seperate presidential assassinations.He met his father, President Abraham Lincoln, at the theatre after John Wilkes Booth had fired the shot. He went to a Washington train station to meet President Garfeild, arriving only minutes after he was shot. And, he traveled to Buffalo, New York to meet President Mckinly, but got there after the fatal shot had already been fired.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

 

[drewskee]

This is my 6300th post.

 

[Ghris]

Pencils range from 9H - the hardest graphite - to 9B, the softest. The centrepoint is HB.

 

[drewskee]

So far, every album released by the hip hop duo EPMD has had the word "business" in the title:

1988 - Strictly Business
1989 - Unfinished Business
1990 - Business As Usual
1992 - Business Never Personal
1997 - Back In Business
1999 - Out Of Business
2008 - We Mean Business

 

[Ghris]

Leatherworking needles are blunt.

 

[♡AimLEE♡]

Ryan @ Rook's Media and I are a new breed.

 

[Ghris]

Brylcream hair wax comes in 65 ml pots.