Tell me useless info you know!

[Squilookle]

The shape of a Pringle crisp (or chip) is a hyperbolic parabaloid.

But what do you call a 3D Oval!? it's been driving me insane for years!

*The average person consumes 15+ spiders a year while sleeping

I heard it was 11, and anyway it's the stupidest statistic ever- how on earth do they measure that? The person isn't awake to notice and the spiders- if there are in fact there at all- sure won't be able to say much about it now would they?

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

In WWII over a hundred American soldiers were lost attacking a pacific island with absolutely no enemies on it.

UFO's maybe ?

 

[Worgen]

DEATH likes kittens and one of the few things that angers 'him' is abusing cats

DISCWORLD YES! He also likes roses. Black roses. Because black goes with everything.

finally someone who gets it, Ive had two people think that the death from conkers is the real one

Seriously? Even with the blatent Paul Kidby image?

I know right, but instead the first 2 ppl I got were like "ohh no death hates cats" then quoted shit from conkers

I wouldn't be able to qoute that anyway I never played that game. Besides Discworld Death is just so ace, he's bad at golf y'know.

and he also forgets how the horse moves in chess

 

[Dango]

In WWII over a hundred American soldiers were lost attacking a pacific island with absolutely no enemies on it.

UFO's maybe ?

My friends and I had a conversation about this. We decided that it was bees. It's always the bees.

 

[Firehopper]

I can tell you the cost of any unit in a great deal of RTS games. Sadly this will never help me in life.

/facepalm

Orc Shaman in WC3 and a Musketeer in AOE 3.

Kgo.

 

[Piecewise]

Over 60% of the world (and 10% of America) is infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasmosis. In rats and other infected animals this parasite subtly alters brain chemistry and personality,making the infected creature more reckless and likely to be eaten. It's thought that it alters the personalities of infected humans as well. Problem is that the manipulation is so subtle it's difficult to tell.

 

[SirBingo]

Useless info.. uh, pennies aren't food.

 

[blankedboy]

The shape of a Pringle crisp (or chip) is a hyperbolic parabaloid.

And the shape of a soccerball is a truncated icosahedron.

 

[Tdc2182]

The term "Big Bang" was actually presented by a scientist content on disproving the theory, but it was so catchy that it became the official term for it.

Edit: this thread just distracted me from talking to someone I have been waiting up for about 2 hours for her to get on...

 

[Slaanax]

There is enough to concrete to in the Hoover Dam to wrap around the equator of the earth in a 4ft strip.

A googol is 10^100 zeros. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A googolplex is 10^googol 10^(10^100)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex the most interesting number in the world.

Consider printing the digits of a googolplex in unreadable, one-point font (0.353 mm per digit). It would take about 3.5 × 1096 metres to write a googolplex in one-point font. The observable universe is estimated to be 8.80 × 1026 meters, or 93 billion light-years, in diameter,[3] so the distance required to write the necessary zeroes is longer than the estimated universe.

Graham's number bigger than a googleplex

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

Lol wiki has interesting facts in it.

 

[j0frenzy]

The isotope caesium-137 did not exist in Earth's atmosphere until there was an atomic explosion. This is pretty much only useful to authenticate wines bottled before the 1940s.

 

[signingupforgames]

When you sneeze seven times you just injected the same amount of endorphins into your brain as an orgasm.
...
Also if you stick rolled up toilet paper into your nose and move it slightly you can make yourself sneeze.

 

[ikey]

01101000 01101001
++++ ++
Both those things mean the same thing. Whoever can guess what I said gets a cookie.

01100011 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110010 01100001 01100100 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011
Wow, takes a long time to type just one word..

 

[Dana22]

In WWII over a hundred American soldiers were lost attacking a pacific island with absolutely no enemies on it.

UFO's maybe ?

My friends and I had a conversation about this. We decided that it was bees. It's always the bees.

It was Tengu.

*wink at the fans*

 

[Quantom Quak]

Most toilets flush in E flat. (Eb)

 

[SquadronAce]

There have been over 90 different flavours of Fanta worlewide since its creation in 1942

 

[RebelliousUno]

Ostriches can be trained to herd sheep

 

[LamborghiniJackson]

lobsters have clear blood

 

[Horben]

If you started at a and counted out every letter of the alphabet, every vowel would be odd-numbered.

 

[Oskar K]

When you wake up in the morning, light hurts your eyes.