Post some useless trivia.

[thick doona]

Hi guys, I'd love to see some useless trivia!

Did you know that there is no mathematical function to gain the exact square root of all real numbers?

 

[Nickompoop]

Herbert Spencer coined the term "Survival of the Fittest".
Not Charles Darwin, though Spencer's work was inspired by Darwin's.

 

[Pheonixe]

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

 

[MercurySteam]

I just got a job! Yay!

Also if you want to know what's in the basement, it's probably pirates.

 

[YourMom]

There's one thing you never put in a trap. If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap.

ME.

I lol'd, then I went and watched that episode for the 100th time.

 

[Megahedron]

Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3410 degrees Celsius.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

Dogs cant look up


I joke

Thorium is a more efficient fuel than that silly silly uranium.

 

[evilneko]

At first, I didn't know who that person was in everyone's avatar when I clicked the red button.

In fact, I had to read the system message it sent me to figure out who it was.

I had thought it was some random girl. >.>

 

[CodeOrange]

The sky is blue, but gets dark when the sun is not out.

 

[Eleuthera]

Arthur Wellesly, the Duke of Wellington (think Waterloo), was born in Ireland.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Apollo 1: Unfueled systems test. Fire in command module caused death of all three astronauts in less than 30 seconds. Radical practice revision and audit changes NASA methods and conduct permanently [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Accident].

Apollo 2: Rocket test, stage 1 of Project Highwater [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Highwater]

Apollo 3: Rocket test, stage 2 of Project Highwater

Apollo 4: Final rocket test of first stage engines, Lunar orbit test (unmanned testing module crashes into Moon successfully)

Apollo 5: Atmospheric test of Lunar module engine abort modes.

Apollo 6: Second unmanned Lunar orbit test, testing module successfully returns to Earth

Apollo 7: Manned testing of navigation systems of the Command module in Earth orbit

Apollo 8: Manned Lunar orbit "dry-run", man first orbits the moon

Apollo 9: Manned testing of Service Module, Command Module and Lunar module in Earth orbit

Apollo 10: Manned Lunar orbit, Lunar module deployed but never landed. Testing for Moon landing deemed complete.

Apollo 11: First manned Lunar landing. Mission on surface duration 2.5 hours.

Apollo 12: Second manned Lunar landing. Mission on surface duration 7.75 hours.

Apollo 13: Mission aborted after explosion en route to the moon, astronauts successfully recovered. Currently holds human altitude record.

Apollo 14: Third manned Lunar landing. Mission on surface duration 9.3 hours.

Apollo 15: Fourth manned Lunar landing. Mission on surface duration 18.7 hours. Due to amount and quality of samples, widely considered to be the most successful mission.

Apollo 16: Fifth manned Lunar landing. Mission on surface duration 20.2 hours.

Apollo 17: Sixth and final (to date) manned Lunar landing. Mission on surface duration 22.1 hours.

Apollo 18: Redesignated for the Skylab Project SkyLab 1. Carried America's first Space station into orbit.

Apollo 19: Redesignated for the Skylab Project SkyLab 2. Carried crew of four as well as provisions to SkyLab.

Apollo 20: Redesignated for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Apollo 21: Never built, funding cuts led to cancellation.

Apollo 22: Never built, funding cuts led to cancellation.

Apollo 23: Cancelled before planning stage.

Apollo 24: Cancelled before planning stage.

 

[Rayne870]

ladies and gentlemen i give you everything you didn't need to know about duck sex http://www.physorg.com/news180769252.html

 

[katsumoto03]

The sun's poles are reversed every 11 years.

 

[Canid117]

Twinkies once used a banana filling but due to their seasonal nature that was replaced with the cheaper cream filling used today. And it takes less than a year for them to solidify and become inedible.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

The Martin Scorsese film "Casino" contains 422 f-words.

 

[Hyperrhombus]

The sun's poles are reversed every 11 years.

The Earths poles switch every 500 years or so, and we`re expecting one about now.

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

Also, cows can walk up stairs but not down them.

Dogs cant look up


I joke

But penguins really cant; when the first aircraft passed over the antarctic, a passing flock of penguins all fell over trying to see where the noise in the sky came from...

 

[Thaa'ir]

English has more words derived from Old French than it does from Old English/Anglo-Saxon.