the "useless facts you do not have to know about, but you won't forget"-thread

[Verdris]

The "red eyes" seen when taking a picture are the bloodvessels in your eyeballs. Having a flash done before the picture makes your pupil reflex smallen your eye-opening. that way you won't see it red but black.

It's the retina BEHIND your eyeball, actually. You can avoid red-eye without using reduction techniques by just moving your flash off-camera. Any photographer worth his salt shudders when someone does portraits with on-camera flashes.

[Deleted]

Crabsticks do not actually contain any crab and since 1993 manufacturers have been legally obliged to call them crab-flavoured sticks.

[doommachine]

that is incorrect, cows have the ability to swim by using amounts of air in their stomachs as a flotation device

[Alexandyr]

Not really gonna read through the entire thread to see if someone posted this one, but in Arizona, it is illegal for a woman to have more than two pleasuring devices in the house.

[doommachine]

Thats Wikipedia, its not a good source at all. People can change that information at anytime

[Skelington]

Ed Wood is almost universally accepted as the worst movie director and writer ever. After Bela Lugosi died, he started to make very lurid pornography(some based off his own films). After he died a "cult" formed around his films. It was that "its so bad its good" whatnot. (If you dont know who he is, he did Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, Night of the Ghouls etc.)

[-Zait-]

Wikipedia is the word of God.

/sarcasm xP

[Thooms]

Contrary to popular belief, you CAN safely put metals in the microwaves, but only certain shapes. Metal in the microwave produces catastrophic results when the object has any jagged corners or sharp edges. The EM emitted by the magnetron induces a current in the object, and where there are sharp edges or corners, current tends to gather there, creating a potential difference (voltage) that is discharged when it reaches a certain level. Thin, jagged items such as a crumpled ball of aluminum foil are quite dangerous, since it doesn't take much to accumulate a proper voltage, and the charge can freely jump from crease to crease. Microwave a fork, and you see great arcs run between the tines.

However, a smooth metal sphere can be microwaved quite safely, and you could probably get away with nuking a spoon, too.

Does your microwave survive that? 'Cause I wanna try it out

[Deleted]

Does your microwave survive that? 'Cause I wanna try it out

Not necessarily. Don't.

that is incorrect, cows have the ability to swim by using amounts of air in their stomachs as a flotation device

Then we're talking different cow breeds, I know that there are water buffalos who can swim, and have no doubts that you're right, too. But the ones this was referring to would go under as soon as the water level rose to their anus. Maybe before that, probably they would float due to the amount of gas.