A useless fact you know

[Juggern4ut20]

The term soccer in reference to what the majority of the world calls football was actually coined by England, not US.

And you can only see the great wall from low orbit, in actual outer space, no man made objects can be seen.

 

[MikailCaboose]

That besides from uric acid and used blood, urine has the same composition as sweat.
Mercury's day is longer than it's year, and about half-way through its year, if you stand on the equator and look at the sun you will see it go about 3/4ths the way across the sky and then reverse to being directly overhead, and then continue its original direction and set.

You'll also immediately flash freeze

Well, that's not the point. Rather, it stands slightly to the side, laughing maniacally.

 

[Eat Uranium]

Pi down to a god aweful number of digits....lets see... 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971

yaaaa

Since I believe Pi is infinite, you can get more "god awful number of digits". OR maybe it's just really long.

Pi is an irrational number (i.e. it has an infinite number of digits after the decimal point).

However, if my memory serves me correctly, you only need the first 12 digits to be able to accurately calculate a circle the size of the observable universe within measurable limits.

Mercury is the only know metal to be in a liquid form at room temperature.

Gallium and Caesium melt if you hold them (though this is not advisable). If you include non-metal elements too, Bromine as well is a liquid (though if it was safe to hold it would vaporise in your hand).

 

[FollowUp]

Koalas have the highest homosexuality rate of any mammal

 

[LaughingAtlas]

The most successful pirate of all time was a chinese woman called Hsi Kai. (I think)

Coffee used to be considered a devil drink from the middle east, used to stay awake for late night prayer. This changed when the Pope of the time drank some himself and immediatly said "We shall fool the devil by baptizing it!"

Atilla the hun died of a nosebleed. (drowned in his sleep, technically)

A surprising number of people got to America before Columbus.

The Jack-O-Lantern was originally a turnip.

"Santa Claus" is probably a mispronunciation of "Saint Nicholas." (see it?)

Pouring alcohol on a scorpian may make it go nuts and sting itself to death. (not tested by me)

Such fun.

 

[mekashiyu]

I have but one that I feel like sharing right now, hopefully it hasn't been said already. D:

* The first 3 digits of pi (3.14) spell "pie" when looked at from behind (aka horizontal flip) if you write your 4 with a closed top, like this font.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

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

Americium is a decay product of Plutonium.

 

[Peteron]

The horn on a narwhal is actually a tooth extending through it's upper lip.

 

[Troodon]

The law of commutativity, A*B=B*A does not apply to the mathematics behind quantum mechanics, which forms the basis for the uncertainty principle (to put it in a simple way).

It can also be used to form Norwegian disco bands.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

The law of commutativity, A*B=B*A does not apply to the mathematics behind quantum mechanics, which forms the basis for the uncertainty principle (to put it in a simple way).

It can also be used to form Norwegian disco bands.

Shoulda seen that coming...

 

[Scabadus]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. Ironic right?

Speaking of which...

"Lisp" has an S in it, "Dyslexic" isn't phonetic, and speaking of fonetic phonetic...

 

[ShadowHand25]

Dog's can't look up,

Great Shaun of the Dead reference.

 

[silv]

The Schwarzchild radius is the radius an object needs to obtain in order to become a black hole as represented by the equation Rs=2Gm/c^2 where G is the gravitational constant 6.67x10^-11m^3kg^-1s^-2 (not the force of acceleration due to gravity on earth which is 9.8m/s^2), m is the mass of the object and c is the speed of light in a vacuum 3.0x10^8.

The Schwarzchild radius of the sun is 3 km.
The Schwarzchild radius of the earth is 8 mm, the size of an average marble.

 

[C95J]

It's illegal to bring Kangaroos into a barber shop in Alaska. Don't ask me why It's so specific, it just is.

It's also legal to have sex with a porcupine in my city. Although if you do it, it's gunna hurt.

what if a porcupine has sex with a porcupine?

No one would bother them because it's legal. But I would take a few pictures... I mean I would arrest them for public fornication.

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

I've seen a turtle trying to have sex with a shoe if that counts. And yes it was hilarious.

you just made my day.

 

[F-I-D-O]

if you lined up the population of china in a eight person wide line and had them march by you, the line would never end
Almost is the longest world in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
The English said that Napoleon was shorter than 5ft 2in, while in actuallity he was taller than the average male at 5ft 4in
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you can do with only a compass
# is an octothorpe
Camels have three eyelids
Golf balls were originally wood, then leather stuffed with bird feathers
Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel
When glass breaks, the cracks can move faster than 3000miles/5000km an hour
The US secret service was originally set up to fight the problem of counterfeit money
You lose more calories sleeping than watching TV
The Wright Brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wingspan
By age 75, on average you would have slept about 25 years
Ski-Doo was originally meant to be Ski-Dog, but there was a typo (snowmobiles)
Your big toe is also called a hallux
there are two chickens for every person in the world
A dime has 118 ridges
The word "set" has the highest number of definitions of any word in the English dictionary
Over 75 acres of pizza are consumed in North America every day
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital
ough can be pronounced eight different ways in English
Gengis Khan is the most successful father in human history, as he has the most surviving descendants. Happens when you have sex with 1(0)000s of women
Good enough?

 

[C95J]

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...

 

[Sprong]

"Santa Claus" is probably a mispronunciation of "Saint Nicholas." (see it?)

It does indeed mean Saint Nicholas, but rather than a mispronunciation, it is most likely an anglicised version of the Dutch 'Sinterklaas'.

OT: the capital of Madagascar is called Antananarivo.

1. Toothpaste dries out and removes mosguito bites. Just makes sure it dries before you accidentally rub up aqainst anythinq.

But be warned, only leave the tooth paste on for 5 minutes, any longer and it burns your skin, quite badly, I know this because my ex shoved some on her eyelid before bed time and she couldn't open her eyes for 2 days.

Your eyelids are extremely sensitive, and one probably shouldn't use toothpaste on them at all. However, other locations, like the leqs, arms, and torso are fine, and I have kept toothpaste on some bites for three days without any neqative effects.

Also, another fact! There is a town in Tennessee called Hitlerville, and there is a town in Pennsylvania with the name of Intercourse.

this is because fluoride is a powerful chemical and why do people even put it in toothpaste i mean seriously that qoes in your mouth oh wait that is why it says do not swallow i see now

I'm sorry, but I have to ask: why are all your 'g's and 'q's switched?

 

[F-I-D-O]

The human body has enough fat to make seven bars of soap, enough iron to make a medium nail, enough potassium to fire an toy cannon, enough lime to whitewash an small chicken house, enough sugar to fill an jam jar and enough sulfur to rid an dogs of fleas


I am the king of useless facts!!!!

Look at my other post. Bring it on!
Extra Fact: This post was pretty useless. AND you just wasted your time reading this.

 

[WorldCritic]

Centralia, Pensylvania has less than ten residents due to a coal mine explosion forty some years ago.

 

[Jerious1154]

strengths is longest English world to have only one vowel.

"Squirreled" is the longest English word to have only one syllable.
"Sequoia" is the shortest English word to use every vowel.