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The average American has $104 in their wallet.

Just where do all these "average" Americans live, & where do they get all that cash?

 

 

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The average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

This explians why after 2-3 beers, it's a trip to the loo (notice my use of an english word there wink.gif ) every 30 minutes.

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Here's one:

 

You can stand the World's poulation side-by-side on the Isle of Wight.

 

For those not totally familiar with Britain, its a small diamond-shaped island off the south coast of England.

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QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jan 10 2005, 04:49 PM)
"Dipsomania" refers to an insatiable craving for alcohol.


The army controlled by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz were called the Winkies.

These were the only two I knew, which probably reveals more about me than I want out in the open biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

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QUOTE (sfuentes @ Jan 10 2005, 10:12 PM)
Fact: I am really a posting machine designed to post until a forum crashes...





























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Watch out!

A YOUNG posting machine too laugh.gif

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QUOTE (madra sneachta @ Jan 10 2005, 06:35 PM)
QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jan 10 2005, 04:49 PM)
"Dipsomania" refers to an insatiable craving for alcohol.


The army controlled by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz were called the Winkies.

These were the only two I knew, which probably reveals more about me than I want out in the open biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

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As madra tips back his Rush stein between versus of Follow The Yellow Brick Road.

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I know it isn't a useless fact, but its a funny story laugh.gif

 

This Iz A Stikkup!

 

San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote "this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said "OK" and left. The Wells Fargo teller then called the police who arrested the man a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America. rofl3.gif

 

 

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QUOTE (rickyrob @ Feb 2 2005, 02:43 PM)
I know it isn't a useless fact, but its a funny story laugh.gif

This Iz A Stikkup!

San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote "this iz a stikkup.  Put all your muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said "OK" and left. The Wells Fargo teller then called the police who arrested the man a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.  rofl3.gif

fing.gif Yes there are nitwits out there!

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'stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand ..

 

And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your

right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

 

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

 

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. (Are you doubting this?)

 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

 

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.

(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

 

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they

are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)

 

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)

 

There are two words in the English

language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'

(Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

 

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.

(I know some people that could do this too.!)

 

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that also)

 

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

 

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 8 abreast,

the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 

Leonardo DaVinci invented the scissors

 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 

The cruise liner, QE 2, 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. (Good thing he did that.)

 

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

 

There are more chickens than people in the world.

 

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

Now you know more than you did before!!

 

^^^got those in an email

 

i would like to add that the following sentence also has all of the letters in the alphabet in it:

 

"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs." new_thumbsupsmileyanim.gif

 

Yes, children, we used to have to take Typing classes at school.

We had to be able to type 35wpm in order to pass! old.gif

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10% of a cat's bones are in its tail.

 

 

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QUOTE=Rolinda Bonz,Nov 3 2011, 12:11 AM]

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

I'm calling BS on this one.

 

My assumptions:

Cruise length = about 2000 miles (about a 1000 miles out and back again)

Total passengers = 2000 (I'm thinking it's probably a little less though)

Price of fuel = $2.00 a gallon (that seems very low, but considering the volume, I'm sure they are getting a big discount)

 

So:

2000 miles = 10,560,000 feet

10,560,000 feet would require 21,120,000 gallons of fuel (this was purely coincidental)

21,120,000 gallons = $42,240,000 (at 2 bucks a gallon)

Dividing by the number of passengers, that would equate to $21,120 per passenger in fuel.

 

So to offset fuel costs, the price of a cruise would have to be more than 21 grand (with conservative estimates on mileage, passengers, and fuel. It is actually probably close to 30 grand per passenger)

 

<<Edit>>

I figured this might be on snopes.com. It was

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QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jan 10 2005, 11:49 AM)
When in the shower, 75% of people wash from top to bottom.

I am the 25%

 

#OccupyTheBathroom

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apetersvt, this is the second thread I've read today wherein you have way too much math! Stop it! tongue.gif

 

 

Alex Lifeson has never given me a guitar lesson. More useless info. wink.gif

 

 

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