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Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:22 am
by handerful
Here is some trivia that can help you win bets at the bar, or maybe $1 million dollars if you’re ever on a game show:
• Cats have over a hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
Anyone else?
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:29 am
by handerful
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:33 am
by handerful
The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:40 am
by handerful
Barbie’s measurements, if she were life size: 39–23–33.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:58 am
by BeatrizS
here are two for you!
Approximately 1-2 calories are burned a minute while watching T.V.
Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed. ( I'm one of them)
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:31 pm
by DN in MN
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:33 pm
by DN in MN
This one should be universal, not just for whales:
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:36 pm
by handerful
A dork? Hmm. Interesting.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:44 pm
by sarahwhithers
In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures. (this seems weird but maybe it is true! haha!)
Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do. (antoher weird one but again, who knows!)
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:01 pm
by craftyfool
I'm a redhead and my dentist DOES have to give me more numbing agent usually. Weird. I just figured I was extra-sensitive.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:21 pm
by sdwhru
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:22 pm
by handerful
These are fun! Keep them coming!
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:24 pm
by handerful
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
(After reading this, 99% of people sit and try to think of one.)
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:26 pm
by Cimorosete
Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:33 pm
by BeatrizS
People still cut the cheese shortly after death.
To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times.
The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming.
In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath. (im not jewish so i dont know if this is true)
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:33 pm
by handerful
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:19 pm
by dianagirly
Mongoose are born blind and hairless.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:36 pm
by sarahwhithers
A frozen lobster can spring back to life after thawed.
That's actually really creepy to think about.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:41 pm
by dianagirly
sarahwhithers wrote: A frozen lobster can spring back to life after thawed.
That's actually really creepy to think about.
So THAT'S why they have them fresh at so many restraunts. Which I think is so icky BTW-let me choose the animal I want you to slaughter for me. Blech! ( I'm no vegetarian but I would not want to pick out my prime rib, KWIM?) LOL
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:41 pm
by davsar
Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.