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JuryNelson

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Recording engineers who worked at the Beatles' Abbey Road studio were instructed never to throw anything away, even when the band members asked them to.

Marshall McLuhan's book title "The Medium is the Massage" was a typo. It was actually supposed to read as his famous quotation does: The Medium is the Message. But he liked the way it looked, and told them to keep it.

Every Urban Dictionary entry for a word used to mock or marginalize a given group will include at least one definition that mocks or marginalizes people who use that word. See: Hipster, Fag, Noob, douchebag.
 

0p3rati0n

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A tommy gun can hold 20-30 round in a box magazine and 50-100 drum.
The first corner show was developed my the Germans during WW2 and was an attachment for the STG 44
 

savandicus

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I know pi to 22 decimal places.

I've memorised a varity of pointless things involving 5, for example 5^2^5 is 9765625. A very exciting number. 5^5 is 3125 exc.

All the useless information from QI.
 

archvile93

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Demented Teddy said:
Wadders said:
Daddy Longlegs are the most venomous creatures on the planet, but they have no means of delivering the venom.

Thank fuck.
So...what if someone ate one?
As someone already said, that is a myth. But hypothetically, if it was true and you ate one you would have nothing to worry about because the vemon would be digested in your stomach and rendered harmless. In fact, rattle snake venom is also edible and almost identical chemically to egg whites which would kill you if injected into the blood rather than eaten.

OT:...Oh, I already contributed a fact :)
 

tigermilk

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Terminate421 said:
Sigmund Freud was jewish?

(I don't hate jewish people but I find the info not needed to have to know.)
So too were Karl Marx and Einstein (I think). I too don't hate Jewish people (which is another fairly useless piece of information).
 

tthor

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Cosplay Horatio said:
If you get brain freeze press your tongue against the roof of your mouth as hard as you can and viola...faster relief.

On most elevators if you press your floor number and the close door button at the same time you'll go straight to your floor skipping the others even if they're being called.

If your getting a call from a solicitor simply press nine and the call will drop and your number will be put on the companies do not call list. 95% of solicitor companies support this feature.

If you need to be sick for something publicly eat about half a cigarette. You'll get sweaty, dizzy, pale, and clammy. All around looking and feeling very sick. In about 20 minutes you'll aggressively vomit everything you've eaten and expel the tobacco. A dramatic but effective way to prove sickness and get out of whatever you wanted to escape from at that moment.

Walk on the sides of stairs to avoid/reduce creaks and loud noises.
these are all quite useful facts, lol
 

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Folio said:
Fetzenfisch said:
Folio said:
No foreigner knows the meaning of the word: gezelligheid. The most well known Dutch word is: Apartheid.
I guess you'e talking about Geselligkeit, aren't you?

The famous empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hunagary had an anchor tattooed on her arm.
Oh ho? Is there by any chance you live close to the Netherlands?
well i guess its less than 1 hour from here, yeah.
 

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I don't know if it was in here but:

Drosophila bifurca has the largest sperm on Earth and, given that it's a fruit fly...
 

Cosplay Horatio

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tthor said:
Cosplay Horatio said:
If you get brain freeze press your tongue against the roof of your mouth as hard as you can and viola...faster relief.

On most elevators if you press your floor number and the close door button at the same time you'll go straight to your floor skipping the others even if they're being called.

If your getting a call from a solicitor simply press nine and the call will drop and your number will be put on the companies do not call list. 95% of solicitor companies support this feature.

If you need to be sick for something publicly eat about half a cigarette. You'll get sweaty, dizzy, pale, and clammy. All around looking and feeling very sick. In about 20 minutes you'll aggressively vomit everything you've eaten and expel the tobacco. A dramatic but effective way to prove sickness and get out of whatever you wanted to escape from at that moment.

Walk on the sides of stairs to avoid/reduce creaks and loud noises.
these are all quite useful facts, lol
Yeah, I decided to throw a curve ball into the thread.
 

Layzor

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In France it is illegal to name a pig 'Napoleon'.

Sigmund Freud's middle name was Schlomo.
 

MetaKnight19

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Technically there aren't 24 hours in a day, the amount of time in a day changes but the average amount of time has been calculated at around 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds.

The universe smells of steak.
 

megamanenm

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The tallest known mountain is Olympus Mons, almost three times as tall as Mount Everest. It's on Mars btw, never said it was on Earth.