useless facts

[Timmyd]

i am going to post a couple of useless fact put your own in as well

-1The "black box" in commercial airliners is actually orange.

-2Cats sleep between 14 and 16 hours a day.

-3Steve Martin has hosted Saturday Night Live more than anyone else at 13 times.

-4"Duct Tape" was originally named "Duck Tape" because of its ability to repel water.

i know there is another thread like this one but it was old

[KenWittlief]

Silly Putty is silicon oil and Borax. It was invented over twenty years ago, in fact the patent has now expired, and you can buy it in 50 lb boxes from Dow for $350 a box. In all the years since it was invented, no one has come up with a real use or purpose for the substance!

It has unique properties:

1. if you hold it in your hand it will slowly melt into a blob
2. but if you shape it into a ball it will bounce without deforming
3. but if you smack it with a hammer it will shatter like a brick

but since it has no practical use, these facts are useless!

[Timmyd]

found some more

Howie Mandel was the voice of Gizmo in the movie Gremlins

Twelve percent of lightning strikes occur at golf courses

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing

[greencactus3]

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
REALLY? quite interesting....

[Greg Ross]

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
That sounds like an urban legend. You got any documentation?

[JVN]

You got any documentation?

The hair on the back of my neck stands up everytime I read that! Greg, I'd never expect that from a self-proclaimed grammar Curmudgeon.

[KarenH]

Silly Putty ... was invented over twenty years ago...

It has unique properties:

1. if you hold it in your hand it will slowly melt into a blob
2. but if you shape it into a ball it will bounce without deforming
3. but if you smack it with a hammer it will shatter like a brick

but since it has no practical use, these facts are useless!
4. If you press it onto the Sunday comics, then peel it off and stretch it, you'll see the characters' faces become even more comic. Whether this is practical depends on whether you view entertainment as practical. :)

By the way, it must have been invented over 30, maybe even 40 years ago, because that's how long ago I played with it.

[KenWittlief]

4. If you press it onto the Sunday comics, then peel it off and stretch it, you'll see the characters' faces become even more comic.

not any more. They use permanant ink on newpapers now, so it doesnt come off. As a result Silly Putty stock prices plummeted :^)

[Timmyd]

That sounds like an urban legend. You got any documentation?

no my friend sent me a bunch of these so i pulled out some of the most entertaining ones

[Timmyd]

oh and one i know to be true

Cinnamon is the bark of the tree Cinnamomum.
and it used to be worth more in weight than gold due to its unusual taste and it is easier to transport i read that in a chemistry article about natural insulin for diabetics.

[Wayne Doenges]

More useless facts from Indiana.

1) Aviatrix Amelia Earhart was once a Professor at Purdue University.
2) A Fort Wayne, Indiana Library houses one of the largest genealogy libraries in America.
3) The world's first transistor radio was made in Indianapolis.
4) 90% of the world's popcorn is grown in Indiana.
5) The birthplace of the automobile, pneumatic rubber tire, aluminum, casting process, stainless steel, and the first push-button car radio was in Kokomo, Indiana (GO Technokats)

[EricH]

Useless fact # unknown: There is a thread on ChiefDelphi about useless facts.
Useless fact # unknown 2: This is a post in that thread.

[Wayne C.]

sounds like a Snapple cap convention

WC :cool:

[KenWittlief]

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.

[dont think about this too long or blood will come gushing out of your nose!]

[Cuog]

My history teacher has unintentionally said "um" or "uh" over 700 times in one class(85 minutes)

[KenWittlief]

My history teacher has unintentionally said "um" or "uh" over 700 times in one class(85 minutes)

my junior year HS electrical shop class teacher has said "now" over 100 times in a 45 minute class!

(when he got to 100 with less than 3 minutes to spare, the class erupted in a spontainious roar of laughter, cheers and applause - and he had no idea what was going on)

[Jaine Perotti]

On average, the nose makes one cup of snot each day.

(I learned that at a community quiz night I went to on Friday.)

[Rohan_DHS]

my junior year HS electrical shop class teacher has said "now" over 100 times in a 45 minute class!

(when he got to 100 with less than 3 minutes to spare, the class erupted in a spontainious roar of laughter, cheers and applause - and he had no idea what was going on)
well, my friend and I calculated (last year) that if you listen to my physics teacher in a monotonous voice for a week straight, we'd go deaf...and he agreed :|

[Timmyd]

For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.

The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.

By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.

The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).

Bulls are color blind.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

i found this one but i know it is not true because his name has the letter "E" in it

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E"

[KenWittlief]

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.


looked at

sighed over

covered with saran wrap and placed in the back of the fridge :^)

[artdutra04]

Here's a few from http://www.brainofbrian.com/facts-general.html.

» The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

» Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles (299,274 km) per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles (1,126 km) per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles (20,917 km) away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

» No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

» Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

» 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

» A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.

» The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

» American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

» The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is around the same amount of time they spend in school.

» Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

» The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

» The fastest moving landmass on the planet, the Tongan Island of Niuatoputapu in the South Pacific, has recently been clocked at almost 10 inches (25.4 cm) per year.

» The longest official city name in the world, made up of 164 letters, is "Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit" a.k.a. Bangkok, Thailand.

» "ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command."

[Ken Loyd]

Ken,

It cleans wall paper very well.

Ken

[KenWittlief]

Every day on Earth 300,000 people die (on average)

12,000 in the United States

and everyday a somewhat higher number of babies are born: 364,000!

[Cuog]

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[Rohan_DHS]

-cheese had been discovered as far back as 6000BC
-you spend about 5 years of your life waiting in lines