Did you know...useless facts/information

When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down.

Limelight was how we lit the stage before electricity was invented. Basically, illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime until they glowed.

False eyelashes were invented by the American film director D.W. Griffith while he was making his 1916 epic, "Intolerance". Griffith wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks, to make her eyes shine larger than life. A wigmaker wove human hair through fine gauze, which was then gummed to Owen's eyelids. "Intolerance" was critically acclaimed but flopped financially, leaving Griffith with huge debts that he might have been able to settle easily - had he only thought to patent the eyelashes.

On November 29, 1941, the program for the annual Army-Navy football game carried a picture of the Battleship Arizona, captioned: "It is significant that despite the claims of air enthusiasts no battleship has yet been sunk by bombs." Today you can visit the site—now a shrine—where Japanese dive bombers sunk the Arizona at Pearl Harbor only nine days later.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Egyptian men never became bald. The reason for this, Herodotus claimed, was that as children Egyptian males had their heads shaved, and their scalps were continually exposed to the health-giving rays of the sun.

In 1893, Chicago hired its first police woman. Her name was Marie Owens. While the city was progressive in its hiring practices, Chicago's female police officers were not allowed to wear uniforms until 1956.

 

There are only 2 ways to define a bird

1) They have feathers

2) They have hollow bones

 

In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was summarily put to death. In the 1630's, a decree in Japan forbade the building of any large ocean-worthy ships to deter defection.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

England's first great industry was wool. Its export had become the nation's largest source of income by the late Middle Ages.

The British once went to war over a sailor’s ear. It happened in 1739, when Britain launched hostilities against Spain because a Spanish officer had supposedly sliced off the ear of a ship’s captain named Robert Jenkins.

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.

Florence Nightingale served only two years of her life as a nurse. She contracted fever during her service in the Crimean War, and spent the last 50 years of her life as an invalid.

Emir Beysari (1233-1293), an Egyptian of great wealth, drank wine from gold and silver cups, yet he never in all his life used the same cup twice.

The first European to visit the Mississippi River was DeSoto.

Human skulls had been used as drinking cups for hundreds of years. The muscles and flesh were scraped away, the bottom was hacked off and then they were suitable to hold any beverage.

The first Bowie knife was forged at Washington, Arkansas.

All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

 

Like 20 minutes after I read this I got off the computer and turned on the history channel or national geographic, cant remember, anyway, they were talking about all the kids that Ramses had on a show about egypt/pyramids etc.
weird, but I think they said it was like 120 kids.

 

forgive me

 

forgive me is not a piece of useless information, means you feel guilty about something, nice to recognize peoples emotions by what they type online.

 

did you know a boeng 747 has a gas tank that can hold enough gas to drive a standerd 4 door sedan around the world 4 times

 

did you know the holes on a sliding tandem assembly on a 53 foot trailer will move roughly 250 pounds per hole on or off the trailer tires?


The sliding 5th will notches move around 500 pounds per notch too.

You said useless info.

 

Every mammal on earth has lactose in the milk of it's famale mothers. With the exception of kangaroos. No one knows why, but lactose is essensial to optimal brain growth and kangaroos are really stupid animals.

 

The toilet was supposedly invented by a guy named Thomas Crapper, so now when you shit, one of it's nicknames is crap! What a legacy!


Bustamp

 

An octopus's testicles are in its head.

 

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes

WOW

 

That's because people are more scared of planes than they are of donkeys

 

Charles Manson is 5'2" tall

 

no, he still is.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.