Tell me useless info you know!

[CarpathianMuffin]

There is only one original member of the band Mayhem that hasn't been incarcerated, murdered, thrown in the loony bin, or committed suicide.

Office Space is on IFC right now.

 

[maturin]

The penetrating jet of a shaped charge disintegrates in under 10 times the diameter of the explosive that propels it.

 

[manedwolf86]

You can make 115 lbs. of jerky from one cow

 

[Hydrus]

*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?

Yeah, this is totally false.

 

[ayuri]

on average everyone farts 40 times a day whether they know or not and you are currently breathing billions of different farts over millions of years right now *dino farts

 

[xNaturalMystic]

The Ski-Doo's original name was the Ski-Dog but there was a typo

 

[Mr. Omega]

Play a song that sounds in tune today to Bach, and he'll think it's out of tune, due to some music association deciding to change what was considered "in tune" at some point.

 

[AvsJoe]

I've been playing a lot of Triv (Trivial Pursuit) with my family lately, what do you want to know?

Nixon said "I am not a crook" at Disney World.
Florida's coast has more shipwrecks than any other coastal US state.
The Flintstones was the first primetime television cartoon.
The Soviet Union didn't end their war with Germany until 1955.
The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia.

 

[Squilookle]

*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?

Yeah, this is totally false.

Well you know what they say- 46.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot...

 

[Nam Yensa]

The cone snail is the most deadly venomous aquatic creature on the planet

one of the most deadly poisons comes from the skin of a frog

 

[Tsunimo]

Every continents name starts and ends with the same letter.
The full title of the AK-47 is the 'Automatic Karishnakov model 1947

 

[SquirrelPants]

There is no such thing as useless information, OP! We can always serve to learn something new!

 

[Hydrus]

Well you know what they say- 46.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot...

Yeah, I'd heard that 60% of the time, it works.....everytime.

 

[mornal]

There are 2 popes per square kilometer in Vatican City.

 

[Strumthund]

Gravity is a theory.

 

[MintsMan]

Porcupines have six nipples!

Male echidnas have a four-headed penis

 

[KaosuHamoni]

The barnacle has a longer penis in proportion to its body than any other animal, and, if a human male had one of the same proportions, it would be fifteen feet long.

 

[gostchiken]

The name "Wendy" was made up for the book Peter Pan, before then there was never a recorded Wendy.

 

[Scde2]

Graham crackers and Kellogg corn flakes were originally invented to prevent children from masturbating.

 

[MintsMan]

Six hours of sleep is actually the correct amount and if you get exactly that amount of time, you will be more rested than sleeping eight.

That's because we alternate from light to deep sleep every three hours or so.