A useless fact you know

[W8NKA]

Dogs dont see black and white, depending on what breed it is it will be missing some colour cones that are need to see colour, its usaly red.

 

[Sacman]

Semen removes hair dye. Thank you, more experienced girlfriend. >_>

Actually this will come in handy... I accidentally stained my leg with red hair dye the other day...

now to get down to business...<.<

 

[Magnalian]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Or was it 82%?

I'm 39% certain it was 82%.

 

[tigermilk]

The moon can be seen from the Great Wall of China without visual aids.

you mean the other way around? either way it's false, the earth from the moon doesn't look that much bigger than the moon from earth. that is like trying to notice a short hair on a basketball 10 feet away

I assure you it is not false, the moon can be seen from the Great Wall of China, I never said anything about the perceived size of the moon, merely it was visible to the naked eye.

I assumed you meant the other way around
and you can see the moon pretty much anwhere

*Sighs* It was a concious inversion of a well known useless fact with the aim of producing another useless fact, I am aware that the moon can be seen from pretty much anywhere.

 

[tigermilk]

The moon can be seen from the Great Wall of China without visual aids.

I see the moon wherever I go...
The two things that can be seen from the moon are the great wall of China and the Staten Island landfill...

It was a concious inversion of a well known useless fact with the aim of producing another useless fact, I am aware that the moon can be seen from pretty much anywhere.

 

[blankedboy]

The angle of the Earth's axis is 23.5 degrees.

In astronomy, that's incredibly useful.

 

[Iron Lightning]

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

How can I state a useless fact? The very act of stating a useless fact in this thread would give the fact the use of being something to state in this thread. Does not compute!

OT: 1 beard-second is equal to the length an average beard grows in 1 second, which is about 5 nanometers. This fact now is made useful to me because it has given me something to say in this thread, gahhhh.

/headexplode

 

[superbatranger]

Eleutherophobia is the fear of freedom.

Men have around 3-4 million erythrocytes per millimeter cubed of blood, while women only have around 2-3 million.

The first car built was not Henry Ford's Model T.

 

[silasbufu]

It's impossible to knock yourself out with a punch intentionally.

Have you tried it?

 

[silasbufu]

Spaghetti Bolognese has nothing to do with Italy.

The Bolognese sauce is a meat-based sauce for pasta originating in Bologna, Italy .
Spaghetti originate from Italy as well.
If you meant something else by that, I'm curious.

 

[Lokluster]

Random fact

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed.

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed because they have no eyelids.
Sucks to be them.

Also, this is my first post. Hurrah!

 

[Lokluster]

You can't sneeze with your eyes open. Believe me, I've kept myself from sneezing by keeping my eyes open.

If you sneeze with your eyes open and also try to hold the sneeze in, the pressure that builds up can potentially blow your eyeballs right out of your head.
Don't try that at home.
Do it under controlled, professional circumstances.
Otherwise it's just stupid.

 

[drbarno]

a duck's cry has an echo.

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

I was using the word "cry" as a synonym for the sound a duck makes, and I found that out through QI when they talked about a guy sticking a duck into an echo-chamber.

 

[Calatar]

Think about how stupid an average person is. Half the world is dumber than that.

And the vast majority of these are patently false urban legends.

 

[Sacman]

Random fact

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed.

Goldfish don't sleep with their eyes closed because they have no eyelids.
Sucks to be them.

Also, this is my first post. Hurrah!

Welcome to the Escapist...

OT: Snakes lack eyelids as well instead their eyes glaze over when they fall asleep...<.<

 

[sycoesis]

The angle of the Earth's axis is 23.5 degrees.<----- RELATIVE TO WHAT?

Relative to earth's orbit around the sun.

OT: Doctor Mario is no real doctor.

my useless fact this comment for an unknown reason made me laugh uncontrollably my stomach hurts

 

[Kenni-chan]

Chickens can't fart

and

The box jellyfish has 60 arseholes

 

[Hateren47]

Spaghetti Bolognese has nothing to do with Italy.

The Bolognese sauce is a meat-based sauce for pasta originating in Bologna, Italy .
Spaghetti originate from Italy as well.
If you meant something else by that, I'm curious.

Sauce Bolognese, in Italy, is a ragu and is served with tagliatelli or lasagne. Spaghetti is of course from Italy.

 

[Antonio Torrente]

The tip of a shoelace is an aglet
Phineas and Ferb dude.

 

[siebje]

OT: You know that ringing you sometimes get in your ears? It's a different pitch each time.

In fact, nothing is ever the same as anything that preceded it.