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Geez!

Thats alot!

  • 01.28.2005 9:49 PM PDT
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You will see a cow everyday for the rest of your life.

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Posted by: Slayd722
Recently got an email at work...

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.

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


Canada doesn't have a two dollar bill - only coins. I happen to have an antiquidated 2 dollar bill in my possession, and the flag flying over the parliament buildings is most certainly Canadian.

Niagara falls never froze over. Its water supply was CUT OFF, because floating ice had blocked the niagara river.

[Edited on 1/28/2005 10:12:23 PM]

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Cockroach blood is white.

  • 01.28.2005 10:40 PM PDT
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in Oklahoma one of their congress men is trying to pass an idea of making little boxing gloves for chicken fighting, and also sensored vests to count to see which one wins with out actually killing the chicken

  • 01.28.2005 11:10 PM PDT
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In California, we have a Austrian former body-builder and movie star as a governor.

  • 01.28.2005 11:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Yan Yin
Posted by: Slayd722
Recently got an email at work...

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.

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


Canada doesn't have a two dollar bill - only coins. I happen to have an antiquidated 2 dollar bill in my possession, and the flag flying over the parliament buildings is most certainly Canadian.

Niagara falls never froze over. Its water supply was CUT OFF, because floating ice had blocked the niagara river.

Okay, well, like I said, it was an email from work. I can't verify anything.

  • 01.29.2005 12:12 AM PDT
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No english word rhymes with month, orange, silver, purple, or wicked.

A cat's urine glows under black light (wonder who was paid to figure that out).

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

Lions mate, on average, 50 times per day (I'm still not over the pig).

Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.

In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for 72 years.

In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.

In Somalia, Africa, it's been decreed illegal to carry old chewing gum stuck on the tip of your nose.

In parts of Alaska, it's illegal to feed alcohol to a moose.

You're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making "ugly faces" at dogs in Oklahoma.

About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.

Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

As many as nine out of ten people are right-handed, and the word for that side, "right," is derived from a variety of sources, all of which suggest strength. Left, on the other hand, comes from the Old English, lyft, for useless, weak.

Incredible means not believable. Incredulous means not believing. When someone's story is truly incredible, you ought to be incredulous.

The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!

The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.

On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.

The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

A bucket filled with earth would weigh about 5 time more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of gravity is so much greater on the sun that the man weighing 150 pounds on our planet would weigh 2 tons on the sun.

Dirty snow melts faster than clean.

You are more likely to be killed by a coconut falling on your head than by a great white shark attacking and killing you while you are surfing.

I could list thousands more useless facts, but that would take up about as much space as the Flood currently takes up if I wrote down all the ones I know or was able to obtain at a moment's notice.

[Edited on 1/29/2005 12:28:19 AM]

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Posted by: Twitch666
my car doesn't have a cd player


Nice.

My CD player doesn't have a car...

  • 01.29.2005 8:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: TrogdorTB
Posted by: Twitch666
my car doesn't have a cd player


Nice.

My CD player doesn't have a car...


Wanna trade?

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The underside of a horse hoof is called the "frog".

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Half of your dick is inside your body. But try telling that to a girl you took home on the promise that you have an 18 inch dong.

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a shrimps heart is in its head

  • 01.29.2005 6:46 PM PDT
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Wow. Check out that site I posted, there must be atleast 1,000 useless facts there.

[Edited on 1/29/2005 7:52:53 PM]

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Posted by: Octaian
water exists in four stages: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
matter existis i four states. water cannot be plasma.

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Posted by: Casey
If the earth were one inch closer to the sun it would be too hot to sustain most life. If it were one inch farther away it would be too cold to sustain life.

not true we drift closer and futher from the sun all the time. we drift by thousands of miles

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Aliens are real!!! =)

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Posted by: Johnny Mendez
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.


...holy crap...

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For every grain of sand on earth there are a million stars. How can this be the only one with intelligent life?

  • 01.29.2005 9:27 PM PDT
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Star Wars useless trivia: oh, where to begin...

The name of the band that's playing in the cantina in Episode IV is called Fig'rin Dan and the Donal Nodes. They're all Bith, a musically talented species in the Star Wars universe.

The name of the band playing in Jabba's Palace is called Max Reebo and the Jizz Wailers (ha!).

Harrison Ford wasn't actually who George Lucas had in mind when he started casting for Star Wars. He was originally hoping for someone like Kevin Spacey. Harrison Ford was, instead, the guy who reads the lines from the script that the audition-ees have to respond to for screen tests. When Mark Hamill showed up, Lucas liked the chemistry that Ford and Hamill presented that he made Ford his new Han Solo.

If you look closely, you can see a potato flying around during the asteroid chase scene in The Empire Strikes Back. Likewise, you can see a tennis shoe floating around during the space battle in Return of the Jedi.

The Star Wars saga is actually supposed to be three separate trilogies: Pre-Galactic Civil War (i.e., the prequels), Galactic Civil War (the original triolgy) and Post-Galactic Civil War (the next trilogy he hasn't started on yet.) Does this mean yet another trilogy is in the works? Although I hope so, I doubt it will happen. But Lucas does have a storyline down for what happens after the Rebels beat the Empire at Endor.

The "TIE" in TIE fighter stands for Twin Ion Engine.

The name of the Super Star Destroyer that Arvel Crynid (the kamakaze maneuver that he pulled was later named the Crynid Maneuver) rammed into was called the Executor.

For the insane plot twist at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, the only actor in the entire cast who was told about the twist was Mark Hamill (and, I guess, James Earl Jones, 'cause he needed to know what to say.). He needed to know so he could act appropriately. David Prowse, the guy inside the Vader suit, was actually told to say "I killed your father", and that was actually the line in the script (the whole "join me, and we can rule the galaxy as father and son" thing wasn't in there, either).. So, basically the entire Star Wars cast was hit with a huge surprise at the premiere, along with the rest of the crowd watching.

Crap, I can't think of any more right now.



  • 01.29.2005 11:38 PM PDT
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If cats always land on their feet, and buttered toast always lands on the buttered side, what happens when you strap buttered toast to a cat's back with the buttered side up?

It would land sideways :o

  • 01.30.2005 12:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: gamingfreak200
if you put your head in the microwave you will get a brain tumor!


I don't think that will really matter, what with you having to cut your head off to get it in the microwave in the first place!

If a barnacle was human sized, it's -blam!- would be the size of Nelson's Column.

Research suggests that left-handers are more likely to survive mortal hand to hand combat, as right handers are less able to counter their fighting style.

Archduke Frank Ferdinand would have survived the assasination attempt, but he was so vein that he had all his clothes sewn onto him. This hindered the doctors attempt to remove his clothes and access the wound, and he bled to death.

The more you know!

  • 01.30.2005 5:11 AM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

2 out of 3 people in the world have a hemorrhoid

Giraffes can't swim

FORTY is the only word in the english langauge with its letters in order from A to Z

the turkey is regarded as the dumbest domesticated animal

the ridges on a corderoy is called whales

Abe Lincoln died with confederate money

Jags are scared of dogs

J.C. Penny's middle name was Cash

A dime has 118 ridges around it

Fish can become sea sick if kept on a ship

a fetus can get hiccups

The highest zip code in the US is 99929 in Wrangall, Alaska the lowest is 01001 in Agawam, Massachusetts

Liberace once used the stage name Walter Busterkeys

the letters on an eye chart are c,d,e,f,l,o,p,t and z

the only other word you can make out of "chesty" is scythe

the average length of an airline stewardesses nose is 2.18 inches

The stopwatch on the show 60 min. is made by Heuer

The dot on an i is a tittle

99.9% of Americans have a toaster

no one knows who wrote the nursery rhyme Rub a Dub Dub

a "jiffy" is equal to one one-hundred-thousand-billion-billionths of a second








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You have enough blood vessels, veins, arteries, capillaries, and so on and so forth, to wrap around the Earth 2 and a half times.

If you try to supress a sneeze, you pop a vein in your brain and die. If you sneeze to hard, you can break a rib and puncture a lung and die.

There is a phobia (Im not sure whats it is called right now) of German people.

Your brain is the size of your two fists put together and you heart is one fist in size.

When looking into a mirror, you are actually viewing a nanosecond (if your are standing one foot away; two nanoseconds for two feet away and so on) younger view of yourself. If you standing about 100 feet away from an extremely large mirror, you could actually see yourself in the mirror taking slower steps or movements than what you are actually doing.

  • 01.30.2005 5:50 AM PDT