A useless fact you know

[silv]

The element Plutonium didn't exist on Earth until humans came along.

Americium is a decay product of Plutonium.

So is Uranium, Neptunium, Protactinium, Thorium, Actinium, Francium, Radium, Radon, Astatine, Polonium and Bismuth.

 

[zombays]

Everything in the universe is made up of atoms, and we can't do anything about it

 

[AlphaLion]

There is no such thing as a "solid" object. An atom is made up of mostly empty space.

 

[i64ever]

German came within one vote of being our national language.

 

[F-I-D-O]

Glass is not actually a solid but is concidered a Super-Cooled Liquid

Actually a falsehood gained from the observation that old church and cathedral windows were thicker at the bottom, leading to the theory that it's very slowly running. But in fact during the periods in which these windows were made glass-making wasn't a precise process, leading windows thinner at one end than the other and obviously they put thick end at the bottom.

I think that serves as both a debunking and a useless fact in itself.

Actually, glass is a really slow-flowing liquid, even with today's standards of making it.

 

[Galaxy613]

Around June 10th of next year the central IPv4 based address registar will run out of IP addresses to give out.

Hopefully before then they'll finally get out the IPv6 standard that they already have designed sense 2001...

 

[sirkai007]

Dog's can't look up,

Yes they can.

 

[silv]

There is no such thing as a "solid" object. An atom is made up of mostly empty space.

There are always virtual particles and particles that make up hardons, baryons and mesons like quarks that are smaller than atoms.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

Vatican city is the smallest country in the world (0.17 square miles) and Monaco is the second smallest (0.7 square miles)

In Maine, it is illegal to sell a car on Sunday unless it comes equipped with plumbing

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119

Baby elephants can drink over 80 liters of milk a day

Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches

Istanbul , Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents

Red paint is the cheapest color to make

Horses cant vomit and pigs cant look up in the sky

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses

Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails

 

[Ashsaver]

Bottlenose Dolphin are actually sex-crazed thrill-killers.

 

[Dead_Man]

executive producer of family guy, david a. goodman, sounds EXACTLY like ray romano

 

[huigho1215]

aside from humans, dolphins are the only other mammal that has sex for pleasure

Orangutans do too.

really? my mistake then, I stand correct

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I once did a mathematical analysis of how many hours - by approximation - I have spent playing video games, watching TV, surfing the Internet and sleeping in my entire life. If memory serves me, it was somewhere close to 75% Could be higher considering I do not believe I factor in any of my childhood television shows or anime. Suffice it to say, that is frightening. Ironically, my sleeping is in actuality substantially lower than what is deemed the norm for people because of my hatred for it, and therefore frequency is sleeping less.

It is completely worthless, I spent an hour to conclude it, there are probably miscalculations and I probably could cut back. Will I? Probably not.

 

[ShadowHand25]

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

 

[Killermud]

Not sure if this one has been said :

It is legal to murder a Scotsman inside the ancient walls of York(England) but only if he/she is wielding a bow and arrow.

 

[Sparrow]

Tell me a useless fact that you know, but first hear mine!
The first creature sent to space was the fly, specifically the fruitfly,

Useless fact...

Ok, here it is.

Everybody dies.

But what about the people that DON'T die?

[sup][small]That's right, screw thew rules.[/small][/sup]

Clench the thumb of any hand in your fist.

You now have no gag reflex.

Enjoy.

*tries it* HOLY SHIT!

For clarity sake, how exactly did you try it?

 

[Merkavar]

a duck's cry has an echo.

since when did ducks cry. and the quack can echo according to mythbusters

 

[vxicepickxv]

Thigmomorphogenesis is a scientific theory in which plants will go based on contact or the vibration of nearby air. A plant will change how it grows based on the location and type of contact(If the leaves are affected, they will grow larger, if the stem is affected, it will grow wider and shorter). It is also not recognized as a word by dictionary.com, and has only had a single scientific test run to verify the results, done in 1979.

 

[spartan1077]

bit of a weird question but have you ever seen turtles at it (not in a crazy weird way) but it's just so funny

ACtually in grade 7, we went on a field trip to Science North in Sudbury. They had tons of animals and one of the exhibits was turtles. Although they were going at it :/ Very lazily I might add. But anyways we took a bunch of pictures and on the way back home the Teachers deleted all of them... But it's burned in my memory.

I bet the teacher secretly saved them and looked at them for a laugh when he/she got home...

yes...laughed...

 

[BenzSmoke]

A chalupa (Spanish) is a boat.