Did you know...useless facts/information

[Bilby]

Ok, let's hear you snippets of useless information?

I'll kick off with this one,

In 1993 Americans bought 59,000 miles of dental floss.

[Bilby]

If you drive a VW into water, with one person it floats; two people it sinks.

[novarys]

When you fart in a pool, it creates a chemical reaction

[dhs]

2000 lefties die every year as the result of using right handed tools :eek:

[earthfog]

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,

is it a "odd" or a "end"?

[~Sam~]

The Can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can.

Sam

[ET_SoCal]

An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

And the one that really - really makes me think:

Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.

[shaggie]

Meaningless statistics were up 5% this past year.

[shaggie]

2000 lefties die every year as the result of using right handed tools :eek: Lefties are evil people. The Latin word for right-handed is 'dexter' and for left-handed it's 'sinister'. Dexter=dexterous=good. Sinister=evil. :)

[grendel 44]

In England up until the 1950s attempted suicide was a capital offense.

In Queen Victoria's time it was a crime to be a male homosexual. It was not a crime for women because Queen Victoria said "women would never do such a thing".

[~Sam~]

Lefties are evil people. The Latin word for right-handed is 'dexter' and for left-handed it's 'sinister'. Dexter=dexterous=good. Sinister=evil. :)Damn, but that comment stirred some bad memories. I was born left handed/right brained. Whenever I reached for anything with my Natural hand I, and it, got smacked. The punishment for being born right brained only got worse in Catholic School... Today I can use both hands with equal dexterity.

Sam

[ET_SoCal]

... use both hands with equal dexterity. :rolleyes:

[~Sam~]

ET... this do be the Old Hippies Forum. We don't have rules here... haven't since I've been comin' round... getting off topic ususally makes the topic Much, Much more interesting... stick around you'll get into the swing of things.

Sam
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/638II_Come_Along_with_Me.jpg

[shaggie]

Damn, but that comment stirred some bad memories. I was born left handed/right brained. Whenever I reached for anything with my Natural hand I, and it, got smacked. The punishment for being born right brained only got worse in Catholic School... Today I can use both hands with equal dexterity.

Sam

You know I was only being funny, right? :)

[ET_SoCal]

... getting off topic ususally makes the topic Much, Much more interesting...
Understood, acknowledged & accepted.

Don’t think you got my reply/joke...

[Bilby]

Cats sleep for 14 hours a day.

[northernlehigh97]

An elephant craps 80 lbs. every day.

[avacado_salesman]

I have never had anal sex.

[Charlotte]

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/886rainbowavatar.gif

Formica is made of paper and plastic.

Hitler was a vegetarian.

Pennsylvania used to be part of Connecticut.

Black death came to Europe when Mongols threw corpses into a city occupied by Italians that they wanted to get rid of.

Florida was a loyal British colony during the American Revolution.

[TranquilWaterfall]

A duck can't walk without bobbing it's head.

Thank you snapple peach tea!

[earthfog]

Colorado is one of only two states in the United States in which ALL the water the state has FLOWS OUT of the state; NONE Flows in! (the other is Hawaii).

[Bilby]

Cholesterol is used to make sex hormones.

[thehipsterdufus]

The oldest and most socially unacceptable 'four letter word' in history is YHWH, the transliteration of the Hebrew word for God, Yahweh.

[Bilby]

Pigs have corkscrew dicks.

[Southernman]

http://www.resursadefun.ro/imagini/Weather.jpg
..........

[Bilby]

Winston Churchill was born in a woman's toilet , but that is not the reason for his initials.

[shameless_heifer]

what's the sound of one hand claping

[BlackGuardXIII]

People eat an average of 8 spiders a year in their sleep.
Ostriches kill more people annually than sharks do.
We eat, on average about ten pounds of preservatives a year.

[JohnnyATL]

[quote] "Florida was a loyal British colony during the American Revolution." no floridia was a colony of Spain untill it was bought by the US goverment after the war for 15 million USD

[JohnnyATL]

The human skin weights 6 lbs.

IF the entire population of china were to walk by you in a single file line, it would never end b/c of the birth rate.

[Becknudefck]

The human skin weights (http://www.adsrve.com/linkredirect.php?h=25,31248456,hipforums.com,0) 6 lbs.

IF the entire population of china were to walk by you in a single file line, it would never end b/c of the birth rate.
damn thats fucked up. those crazy chinese people. i tell ya

[Bilby]

In the good old days,on a cold Winter's morning workers would warm their hands under the cows' urine as it was comming out.

[abudman]

My boss is an IDIOT!

[shameless_heifer]

the soul weighs 28 ounces.. that's how much weight you lose at the time of your death

[Varuna]

If you could translate the sounds they make into English, you would find that most animals are just yelling "HEY!!!" as loudly as they can.

[AutumnAuburn]

Starting with the number one, you would have to count to one-thousand to use the letter "A".

[PizzaProphet]

Two wrongs do not make a right. But three right's make a left.

[shameless_heifer]

what goes up must come down... bummer..

[homebudz]

what goes up must come down... bummer..


LMAO!!!!

[Varuna]

There was a time when no-one knew the names of things like space, time, light, existence, gravity, energy, matter, life, consciousness, love, truth, bliss, etc.

Of course, these things existed long before we named them.

There may still be things for which we have no names.

There are probably far more things than there are names.

Who knows what these things are?

[Bilby]

The collective noun for train carriages is, a rake of.

[Bilby]

I wonder what people did in the old days before toilet paper was invented?

[AutumnAuburn]

They used peat moss, grass, and pages from books.

There might even still be some people out there somewhere, who still have outhouses and use Sear's Catalogs... There were a few left, when I was a kid.

I wonder what people did in the old days before toilet paper was invented?

[Pa_Hippie124]

Thwy used there hand as toliet Paper

[Bilby]

10 most flatulent beans

1. Soybeans
2. Pink beans
3. Black beans
4. Pinto beans
5. California small white beans
6. Great northern beans
7. Lima beans (baby)
8. Garbanzos
9. Lima beans (large)
10. Blackeyes

Copied from The Australian Skeptics Association web site.

[Bilby]

Strange but real Book Titles

* The bright side of prison life
* Old age: Its cause and prevention
* Traditional aspects of Hell
* Practical candle burning
* Enjoy your chameleon
* The practical embalmer
* Folding table napkins

http://www.skeptics.com.au/

[canadian_boy]

In the province of Quebec it's forbidden to produce yellow margarine. it could confuse the population ...

[BlackGuardXIII]

In England up until the 1950s attempted suicide was a capital offense.

In Queen Victoria's time it was a crime to be a male homosexual. It was not a crime for women because Queen Victoria said "women would never do such a thing".
Yeah, but Vicki was a toker........she said it was for her 'cramps', uh huh.......

[BlackGuardXIII]

the soul weighs 28 ounces.. that's how much weight you lose at the time of your death
3/4 of an ounce, 21 grams, like the movie.

[BlackGuardXIII]

a golf ball has 412 little divots in it.


catgut isn't made from cats
Panama hats aren't from Panama
The hundred years war was not a hundred years
The October revolution was in November
Whenever you lose something, its always in the last place you look.......

[gdhmomchild]

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,

is it a "odd" or a "end"?
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lol, well, I'll never have to decide that since I will never get down to one.

also during Queen Victoria's reign, they believed that too much sexual thought was what made men lazy and not good workers. There was many, many patents to keep a man from being aroused and they all look extremely painful! To voluntarily atach something to yer penis that will stick pins (or worse!) in it if you start to get an erection, wtf!
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and now my useless piece of info
There is no Betty Rubble in Flintstones vitamins

[gdhmomchild]

So You think you Know everything?........
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

..............Now you know everythinghttp://wemissjerry.org/smiles/smile.gif~

LoL, couldn't resist. Sorry for the flood.

[Myranya]

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,

is it a "odd" or a "end"?
Since it's the LAST, it'll obviously have to be an end.

[celeste]

Bees kill Dragonflies !

[gdhmomchild]

lol Myranya~! the prob is I never get to the end..is that odd?

[DrSpaceman]

How many die as a result of right-wing "cleansing"?

[DrSpaceman]

Computers that use ones-complement binary arithmetic recognize a word of all zeroes as +0 and all ones as -0 but treat them as the same value.

[DrSpaceman]

In 1993 Americans bought 59,000 miles of dental floss.
Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

[Bilby]

Laurie Connell: Dodgiest merchant banker in history. Issued about 300 defo writs against various journalists but all failed because he was a crook who went broke.

[Bilby]

Polar bears are left handed.

[gdhmomchild]

LOL~* I don't think I'd want to be the one close enough to find that out!!

[Varuna]

Photons have zero mass.

[celeste]

Palmetto bugs eat chili.

[Bilby]

Butterflies taste with their feet.

[Varuna]

Because they are sterile, absorbent, the right shape and form-fitting, tampons are excellent first aid for bullet wounds.

[Bilby]

A pig's orgasim lasts 30 minutes.

[Bilby]

6,000,000 rivets were used in the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.The largest rivet weighs 3.5kg.

[luvndrumn]

the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, approximately 181,400 metric tons of steel were used in the superstructure, and 1.42 million cubic meters of concrete were used in the substructure. Construction took ten years. There were no fatalities.
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/julaug98/images/kaikyo1.jpg
Look here. (http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/julaug98/worlds.htm)

[Varuna]

A cubic yard of water weighs one ton.

[gdhmomchild]

The bigger the mess, the faster the help to clean it disappears. (observation from the kids party in the living room last night)

[Bilby]

Button holes for shirts are vertical; pyjama button holes are horizontal.

[Bilby]

Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds.

[gdhmomchild]

...ok...who has jammys so I can check this out......damn nekkid hippies,lol

The tatsebud thang could be a bad thang depending on how dinner turns out...(don't let my daughter cook!)

[AutumnAuburn]

Monarch butterflies are poisonous.

[Bilby]

Cholesterol is a vitamin for insects.

[Unkle_John]

Twinkies have a shelf life of 100 years

[Unkle_John]

Coca-cola (or any other cola soda) is good for cleaning the poles on car batteries.

[gdhmomchild]

Twinkies original cream filling was a banana cream but during the war and rationing they had to change it. It was so popular they left it that way. I dunno about banana cream Twinkies....

[Varuna]

90% of our technology, upon which we base so much of our modern lifestyle, was created within the last 150 years.

[hhk]

*An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

And the one that really - really makes me think:

Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.

[LostHopes87]

In 1987.....I WAS BORN...MUAHAHAHHAHAHA..



that was very useless...:-p




oohh...and i was also born with a TWIN...MUAHAHAH


AND IT'S A BOY TWIN....GRRR :-D



there u go!

[Bilby]

Fossil records show that Australia once had a species of carnivorous kangeroo.

[Bilby]

Superb Lyrebirds impersonate the sound of chainsaws.

[Bilby]

In the old days butter was smeared on crockery when in trasportation in much the same way bubble wrap is used today.

[Varuna]

We cannot see anything that moves faster than the speed of light.

[Kabbalist]

Post 'em here, the facts you are supposed to know according to all those freaked out quiz shows. Start with 'did you know'. Here's my one.

Did you know that Charlie Chaplin once got the third price in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest?

[bedlam]

Did you know in Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas.

[crummyrummy]

I wanna try it

[bedlam]

Did you know the chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.

[Kabbalist]

Did you know Kyoto is an anagram of Tokyo?

[crummyrummy]

Nepal's flag isn't rectagular. Or square. It's two triangles, sorta.

[bedlam]

Did you know a human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

[crummyrummy]

Newfoundland's time zone is half an hour off of all the others. So are Iran's, bits of India's, Afghanistan's, Burma's, and Nauru's. And some other islands. Like Australia.

[bedlam]

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

[crummyrummy]

Guam has seven public elementary schools.

[bedlam]

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

[crummyrummy]

When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.

[bedlam]

The human brain is about 85% water.

[Kabbalist]

Did you know that the name for insect poop is frass.

[crummyrummy]

In 1984, 13,126 people were arrested in Federal drug cases.

[matthew]

1 in 10 people living in the UK think Hitler is a fictional character..Biggles, i am sure is spinning in his grave.

[Kabbalist]

Did you know that an artist from Chicago created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham?

[bedlam]

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

[crummyrummy]

The Republic of San Marino is the world's smallest republic (24 sq. miles) and possibly the oldest state in Europe (founded 4th century AD, according to tradition.)

[Kabbalist]

Did you know that Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem?

[bedlam]

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.

[crummyrummy]

When Gerber baby foods began to sell in parts of Africa, they continued to use their usual packaging, with the cute baby on the front. They didn't realize until later that where they were selling it, it was a common practice to help illiterate people buy things by putting pictures on the wrapper of what was inside....

[Kabbalist]

Found in Argentina, the ornate horned frog can eat an entire mouse with one swallow.

[crummyrummy]

In cats, the calico and tortiseshell coats are sex-linked traits. All cats displaying these coats are female... or ocassionally sterile males.

[Kabbalist]

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

[bedlam]

The 1st personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.

[crummyrummy]

The famous painting of "Whistler's Mother" was once bought from a pawn shop.

[bedlam]

For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

[crummyrummy]

A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.

[bedlam]

A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

[crummyrummy]

Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.

[bedlam]

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

[crummyrummy]

the word posh stems from the labels put on luggage for people who had enough money to pay for cabins close to the land side of disembarking and arriving ships i.e. Port Out Starboard Home P.O.S.H.

[bedlam]

Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.

[crummyrummy]

In 2003, scientists managed to create a material dense enough to stop light mid-way through it, allowing them to observe static light.

[bedlam]

The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other gases.

[crummyrummy]

Sloths are capable of swiping through steel soled boots with ease. Although normally as slow as a spack on morphine, they can produce sudden bursts of speed. Don't fuck with the sloths!

[bedlam]

Ants don't sleep.

[crummyrummy]

Actual amount of semen per ejaculation: 1-2 teaspoons

Average number of times a man will ejaculate in his lifetime: 7,200

Average # of times he will ejaculate from masturbation: 2,000

Average total amount of lifetime ejaculate: 14 gallons

[bedlam]

Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.

[crummyrummy]

Percent of men who say they masturbate: 60%

Percent of men who say they masturbate at least once a day: 54%

Percent of men who say they feel guilty masturbating that often: 41%

[bedlam]

The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

[matthew]

http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant2/imgs/250/z928.gif

....

[shinta]

you can't lick your elbow

[Kabbalist]

you can't lick your elbow
And why did I try if that is true...

[bedlam]

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

[shinta]

And why did I try if that is true...:p most people try it :)

[bedlam]

Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year..

[dreadlockswampy]

A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 mins

A butterfly tastes with their feet

[bedlam]

On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.

[crummyrummy]

Magnitude 5.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 15:41:46 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver



Magnitude 5.6
Date-Time Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 15:41:46 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 08:41:46 AM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 33.53N 116.57W
Depth 13.5 kilometers
Region SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Reference 35 km (20 miles) S of Palm Springs, California
35 km (20 miles) NNW of Borrego Springs, California
40 km (25 miles) WSW of Indio, California
715 km (445 miles) SE of SACRAMENTO, California

Location Quality Error estimate not available, held by USGS NEIC to another agency's solution
Location Quality
Parameters not available
Source USGS/CalTech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

[bedlam]

The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.

[TheLizardQueen]

Playing cards in India are round.

[Death]

dirt is made of dead animals and plants

[crummyrummy]

Anchorage, Alaska: Population, total: 270,951

[bedlam]

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

[crummyrummy]

According to researchers at the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), strategies that contribute to weight loss success are eating a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, monitoring food intake and body weight, and maintaining high levels of physical activity.

[bedlam]

The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker's apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.

[crummyrummy]

The speed of light traveling through a metal "Venetian blind" is fixed by the size of the gaps, not by the material, according to calculations, which might be useful for optical devices. In the "waveguide" mode, light travels along the blind (top, vertical lines show fields in gaps) and creates almost the same external magnetic fields generated by light traveling through a transparent slab with a very low light speed (bottom).

http://www.physicscentral.com/pictures/images/pictures-05-03.jpg

[bedlam]

The hamburger was invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast.

[crummyrummy]

For a very brief time in 1964, it seemed that the biggest challenger to the Beatles' phenomenon was the Dave Clark Five.

[bedlam]

In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.

[crummyrummy]

A bear charges at high speed, ears flat, on all four legs, low to the ground.

[bedlam]

Wrigley's promoted their new spearmint-flavored chewing gum in 1915 by mailing 4 sample sticks to each of the 1.5 million names listed in US telephone books.

[crummyrummy]

Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator

[bedlam]

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

[crummyrummy]

Alligators hunt mainly at night when the temperatures rise between April and October(northern hemisphhere)

[bedlam]

The rock music video channel MTV made its debut in 1981.

[Quest_techie]

ra's al ghul mean sthe demon head
poison ivy was originally a good guy in the suicide squad
solomon grundy is on the moon because superman is a cock
batman beyond is set in one of the alternate universes that was created in "the crisis of infinite earths"
the current spectre is hal jordan, originally a green lantern

[bedlam]

The first issue of People Magazine, in 1974, cost 35 cents and featured actress Mia Farrow on the cover.

[crummyrummy]

What are species? Species in Latin merely means "kind" and so species in an elementary sense are different kinds of organisms.

[bedlam]

There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.

[crummyrummy]

Quartz is the most abundant mineral on Earth
(about 12% vol.).

[Quest_techie]

logans run won best special effects the year before a new hope

[bedlam]

Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel on "The Dorsey Brothers Show."

[crummyrummy]

Goat and sheep cheeses can be more pungent, but virtually all stinky cheeses are made from cow's milk.
Once cut, a small round of cheese will last about two weeks in your refrigerator.
Always bring cheese to room temperature before serving.

To accelerate the maturation process and heighten the olfactroy assault, wrap cheese in wax paper and store at room temperature. (This does, however shortens cheese's life expectancy and may force your housemates to quarantine the kitchen.)

The ideal bread to accompany cheese is nut bread containing walnuts or hazelnuts (and sometimes bits of dried fruits). But any crisp baguette or sourdough loaf will do.

[bedlam]

On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.

[crummyrummy]

Statistically one bungee jump is about as dangerous as driving 100 miles in a car. (About a two in one million chance of death) There have been millions of safe bungee jumps, and only a few accidents. Almost every accident was caused by the jumper not being properly connected to the cord or the cord not being properly connected to the jump platform.

[bedlam]

The first Wimbledon Tennis Competition took place in 1877 solely as an amateur competition. Men's singles was the only event that took place. There were 22 competitors and the championship was won by Spencer Gore.

[crummyrummy]

In an average lifetime, a person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.

[bedlam]

The oiuja board was invented by Isaac and William Fuld, and was patented July 1, 1892.

[crummyrummy]

For those who are calorie conscious, a 60-second kiss burns 26 calories.

[bedlam]

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

[crummyrummy]

Approximately 90 percent of the garlic grown in the United States is grown in California.

[bedlam]

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

[crummyrummy]

The longest MONOPOLY game ever played was 1,680 hours - that's 70 straight days!
Longest game in a bathtub: 99 hours
Longest game underwater: 45 days
Longest game played upside-down: 36 hours

[bedlam]

Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.

[crummyrummy]

A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.

[bedlam]

The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.

[crummyrummy]

Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES

[bedlam]

The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.

[crummyrummy]

Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".

[bedlam]

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

[crummyrummy]

There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.

[bedlam]

A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.

[crummyrummy]

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

[bedlam]

George Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.

[crummyrummy]

How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.

[bedlam]

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

[crummyrummy]

In 18th century England, macaroni was a synonym for perfection and excellence. That's why, for example, the feather in Yankee Doodle's cap was called "macaroni." In fact, the word "macaroni" means "dearest darlings" in Italian.

[TheLizardQueen]

Cher's real last name is Sarkissian

[bedlam]

On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

[Kabbalist]

Flamenco dancer Jose Greco took out an insurance policy through Lloyd's of London against his pants splitting during a performance.

[matthew]

Nothing that makes you you is alive.

[bedlam]

The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City in 1885 aboard the French ship "Isere."

[TheLizardQueen]

The mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith invented liquid paper

[Ganja_Goo_Ninja]

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

[sara_rose]

Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.

[Ganja_Goo_Ninja]

- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes

[sara_rose]

Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.

Most toilets flush in E flat.

[Unbreakable_T]

If Bill Gates drops a $100 note it is not worth his time to stop walking and pick it up

[kjhippielove88]

mosquitos (sp?) have 47 teeth

[bedlam]

Ever since 1944 the town of Bunol, which is near Valencia, Spain has a festival called "Tomatina." The festival occurs once a year on the last Wednesday of the month of August. People have a huge food fight and throw tomatoes at each other, and this festival is considered the world's largest food fight.

[Insomniac_devi]

Did you know that it is illegal to have sex with a porcupine on an airplane runway?

[crummyrummy]

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

[TheLizardQueen]

Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.


Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."


Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.


A broken clock is right at least twice a day

The longest film ever released was "****" by Andy Warhol in 1967, which lasted 25 hours. After its utter failure, it was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as "The Loves of Ondine."

Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.

[crummyrummy]

A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.

Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse. Supermarkets report very strong sales of almost anything they stock at the check-out line.

The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.

Grand Rapids, Michigan is the "SpaghettiOs Capital of the World" because per-capita consumption is highest in that city, per the Franco-American Company. Reportedly, there are more than 1,750 "O's" in a 15-ounce can of SpaghettiOs.

[Who_Killed_Marilyn]

..My middle name is Marie.

[TheLizardQueen]

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.

Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.

Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (a variety of the marijuana plant) paper

On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

[crummyrummy]

Bill Haley and the Comets, one of rock and roll's pioneer groups actually began their career's as Bill Haley's Saddle Pals - a country music act.

Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr.

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

[TheLizardQueen]

More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

[crummyrummy]

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

Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue.

[kjhippielove88]

to temporarily revive your ballpoint pen, dip the tip into hot water for a few seconds

[crummyrummy]

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." She said "Come on up sometime and see me." Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy," and Cagney never said "You dirty rat..."

Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.

[Ganja_Goo_Ninja]

- 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

- Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

- The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

- Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

- Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

- Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

- The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

- Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cordscut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

[TheLizardQueen]

If you hold in a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your brain and die. If you sneeze hard enough, you can also break a rib.

[Bilby]

There is also a Useless Information thread in Old Hippies

http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26846

I will see if I can get it moved and merged with this thread.

[Bilby]

The Sarawak Chamber in northern Borneo is the largest cave in the world. It is so large that 10 jumbo jets would fit nose to tail inside.

[TheLizardQueen]

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year

[kjhippielove88]

the first ballpoint pens were made in 1945 and sold for $12

[pabsy]

if an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out it could hold a basketball................ ouch!

[pabsy]

the sound made when a duck passes gas is the precise acoustic oppositeof its quack...so if it does both simultaneously theres no audible sound!

[pabsy]

and.... scuba divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet of below......

i don't have a gas fetish....honest!

[icedteapriestess]

the male skunk must scratch and lick the female skunk's gentialia before she will allow him to enter.

the erect penis of a blue whale is approx. 9.5 feet long.

[pabsy]

hahaha... i'm sure glad i'm not a female blue whale!

[verseau_miracle]

A whales penis is known as a dork

Xx

[verseau_miracle]

America spends more money on porn per year than the entire national debt of subsaharen africa...

apparently:-S

Xx

[StupidHippy]

The scientific name for gorilla is gorilla gorilla gorilla

[verseau_miracle]

The "mer" in the word "commerce" comes from the God "Mercury"..who was..uh...God of commerce:D

Xx

[verseau_miracle]

The word "assassination" was coined by Shakespeare:D

[AmyC.]

1 in 100 people has schizophrenia.

[Kabbalist]

1 in 100 people has schizophrenia.I'm with 28 here, does that count for 1? :)

[Kabbalist]

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

A group of frogs is called an army.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of officers is called a mess.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

[shaggie]

useless question:

Is there an Indian dance that STOPS rain?

.

[verseau_miracle]

The moons of Uranus are named after Shakespeare characters

Xx

[bedlam]

Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.

[gdhmomchild]

A group of officers is called a mess.


LOL!! Truth in advertising.

[BradinTheGreat]

The strawberry got it's name from the straw (hay) put around the plants base, so when the berries fell they wouldn't become brown quickly.

Four Dunkin' Donuts Munchkins equal one full donut in nutritional value.

Dough must be added to jelly or cream filled donuts, so the dough doesn't burst when cooked.

The name "cappuccino" was given to the drink, because the froth peaks resembled the hoods of Capuchin Monks.

Gotta' love Food Network!!!

[gdhmomchild]

dooooooooooo-nuts!!
*makes Homer Simpson noises*

[TheLizardQueen]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

[soulrebel51]

lmao, i just read all 24 pages of this thread.

useless. :rolleyes:

[crummyrummy]

One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.

Avoid people who talk to themselves. According to Ukrainian legend, that could indicate a dual soul and the second one doesn't die! Also watch out for the seventh son of a seventh son, a person born with a red caul (amniotic membrane covering the head), or a child born with teeth. A vampire can result if a cat or dog walks over a fresh grave, a bat flies over the corpse, or the person has died suddenly as a result of suicide or murder. Unfinished business can also cause a body to rise, as can inadequate burial rites, including a grave that is too shallow.

Most vampires are described in folklore as flushed and ruddy, with swollen bodies and bloated faces. Often, they can be identified because they're sitting up in the grave.

According to folklore, there are a number of ways to protect yourself from vampires, including the ever-popular wearing of garlic or a religious symbol. You can slow a vampire down by giving him something to do, like pick up poppy seeds or unravel a net. (They're quite compulsive.) Cross water and he can't follow. If you can find the body, give it a bottle of whiskey or food so it doesn't have to travel. If that doesn't work, either shoot the corpse (may require a silver bullet) or drive a stake through the heart. And remember, the vampire won't enter your dwelling unless invited.

Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and the crossroads.

[gdhmomchild]

lmao, i just read all 24 pages of this thread.

useless. :rolleyes:
....but very interesting

[crummyrummy]

In Dante's "Inferno" the Ninth Circle of Hell is reserved for those who betray family or country. The denizens of this deepest circle, who are frozen in ice, include Judas (betrayer of Christ) and Cassius and Brutus (betrayers of Julius Caesar).

Abe Silverstein, who headed NASA's Space Flight Development Program, proposed the name Apollo for the space exploration programs in the 1960's. He chose that legendary Greek name because the virile Apollo was a god who rode through the skies in a magnificent golden chariot. The precedent of naming manned spacecraft for mythological gods had been set earlier with Project Mercury, also named by Silverstein.

Some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it. Of course the $1 bill is unlucky - if it was lucky it would be a $100 bill.

The name of the legendary Lady Godiva's horse - Aethenoth

An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.

When visiting Finland, Santa leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko. Finnish folklore has it that Ukko is made of straw, but is strong enough to carry Santa Claus anyway.

[BlackGuardXIII]

you cant sneeze with your eyes open.
47% of college students polled, signed a petition to ban dihydrogen oxide, because of how many deaths it caused annually. "h2o", water.....

[matthew]

Alabama was the birthplace of the actress Tallulah Bankhead at Huntsville in 1902. Between 1923 and 1968 she is said to have slept with 40% of the British aristocracy.

The British aristocracy suffered its greatest disaster on October 14th 1066 when 50% of its membership was killed at the Battle of Hastings.

Doors in London in the eighteenth century had up to ten keyholes to confuse burglars.

Red Square is neither red nor square. It is oblong and called Krasnaya Ploschad in Russian, meaning 'beautiful square'. The words for 'red' and 'beautiful' are the same in Russian.

$644 million was mislaid by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen during their 1999 audit of NASA.

[Quest_techie]

the enigma machine cipher could not encipher a letter as itself.....

[matthew]

the enigma machine cipher could not encipher a letter as itself.....
come again ?.

[Quest_techie]

none of the variants of the enigma cipher was capable of enciphering a letter as itself


e could be encoded as k but not as e

that was it's fatal flay, only 25 possibilities per letter as opposed to 26 and that particular absence of possibility allowed turings bombe to break the mother like a ddt poisoned raptor egg.....

[crummyrummy]

The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789.

The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed turquoise would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used these green and blue stones to decorate their battle shields.

More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret. Because poor people could not afford real silk, they tried to make other cloth look silky. Women would beat on cotton with sticks to soften the fibers. Then they rubbed it against a big stone to make it shiny. The shiny cotton was called "chintz." Because chintz was a cheaper copy of silk, calling something "chintzy" means it is cheap and not of good quality.

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt wore garments made with thin threads of beaten gold. Some fabrics had up to 500 gold threads per one inch of cloth.

The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an onion with beer foam as a way of warding off death.

The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.

[Nikki]

Europeans are more tolerant of windmills than Australians are.

[monarch]

Playing cards in India are round.
i lived in india till i was 13 and ive never seen round playing cards =s

[ScrewU2]

Hey heifer when you die you shit and piss yourself that is where the 28oz. come from

[Bilby]

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.
I thought condoms in the old days were made from section of sheep's gut, with a knot tied in it.

[FreakerSoup]

43.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.