Useless Facts

[Oldbugga]

The average depth of the oceans is 15,000 feet.
The average thunderstorm contains half a million tons of water.
The sun evaporates two hundred thousand million tons of water from the surface of the oceans every day.

There now you can sleep well.

[deftones]

Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

Diamond Star Motors dissolved in 1994 :P

[ghtybv]

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

This is not true. the chances of anyone swallowing a spider at all is almost nonexistent

[Pfeff]

"There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous."
Blasphemous?

Much interesting stuff though

I really hope you are joking...unless blasphemous ends in -dous?

[helic]

I loved this!

[Drexxil]

I really hope you are joking...unless blasphemous ends in -dous?

I think you missed the quotations.

[Gungtah]

There are sharks in the Mississippi River.

It's not impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, that's like saying it's impossible to sneeze silently.

[Toskorae]

I really hope you are joking...unless blasphemous ends in -dous?

I think he was quoting the fact, then asking; "Blasphemous?"

[Plaincow]

really fun read. more threads like this with cool little facts. i dont find them useless at all btw.

[Deleted]

While whiskey, bourbon, and scotch are all made using very similar means, they cannot all be made anywhere. Scotch can only be in Scotland, Bourbon can only be made in Kentucky, and Whiskey (usually made in Tennessee) can be made anywhere.

Champagne can only be made with grapes from a specific region of France, carbonated wine made with grapes from anywhere else in the world can only be call Sparkling wines.

Bourbon is made from corn, while the others are different names for the same thing... (im rather sure of this)

[psychedelica]

Sushi was a street food before it went insane popular global wide

[Baabinator]

I am 19 years old.

What? This is a useless fact.

[jtgizmo]

so you are saying there's only 4 continents?. in asy case you are wrong. There's actually 6 continents: America (north, central and south america), Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania (Australia is a country, not a continent) and finally the Antartida (I know it has no countries there, but many cientists agreed to consider it a continent).

Australia (also described as Oceania) is the smallest of the geographic continents, though not of geological continents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)

[sicness]

Random fact I heard on the history channel a long time ago. Don't recall what show so can't validate it completely, sorry:

A primary reason Americans drink hard liquors and beer over wine is that during the first few years of the first colonies Europe was going through a 'little ice age'. During this time European farmers had to convert what they grew to crops that could sustain the colder climate. Which included beer being produced more rather than wine. Therefor most of the Europeans who immigrated to America were familiar with growing hops and the other types of crops they changed to and started growing them in America.

If you google the little ice age you can find info on it though.

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On average we are about 1cm taller in the morning than in the evening due to movement compressing the cartilage in our knees during the day.

[jtgizmo]

Fact : you cannot lick your own elbow.

[Drexxil]

Fact : you cannot lick your own elbow.

Met a girl who could.

[sicness]

Met a girl who could.

I hate to do it but couldn't resist... pics or didn't happen. :X

[Drexxil]

I hate to do it but couldn't resist... pics or didn't happen. :X

Kind of hard to go back in time and take a picture. If I could time travel, I wouldn't be here posting.

She was just flexible, and had an abnormally long tongue. She was fun.

[sicness]

Kind of hard to go back in time and take a picture. If I could time travel, I wouldn't be here posting.

She was just flexible, and had an abnormally long tongue. She was fun.

Lol sounds like it.

Edit: to stay on topic, cats sleep 16 to 18 hours a day.

[jtgizmo]

Kind of hard to go back in time and take a picture. If I could time travel, I wouldn't be here posting.

She was just flexible, and had an abnormally long tongue. She was fun.

Doesn't matter how flexible you are, your bones do not bend, so unless she had ultra short hands and she dislocated the shoulder or something to get it further, then you cannot lick your own elbow.

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and then I went on a google and found this! lol



I stand corrected

---------- Post added 2011-02-17 at 06:19 AM ----------

But the idea of that post was really, people who read that, majority will immediately try to lick their own elbow.