Useless Facts, The Best Kind of Facts

[MrNickster]

In France, 1740, a cow was hanged for being a witch.

Yuji Naka, a programmer who worked on the original Sonic the Hedgehog and NiGHTS into Dreams, hates Sonic R.

The air you are currently breathing only contains about 21% oxygen.

Winston Churchill called the first tanks 'Landships'.

 

[ghstman]

Dogs cannot look up.

"Yes they can!"

Of course they can't. Last I checked, dogs don't know how to read a dictionary.

...I'll just pack my things and go.

Content:

The mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs (Called the KT Extinction Event) was not the only mass extinction to occur, much less the largest. Granted they weren't all quite so sudden as the KT event (the Triassic-Jurassic event happened over about 10,000 years).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Extinction_intensity.svg

X-axis is millions of years ago, y axis is the percentage of species that got wiped out. Letters at the top are the different time periods (Tr - Triassic, J - Jurassic, etc...) The second significant peak from the right is the one where all the dinosaurs died out. (where section K and Pg meet.)

 

[kaieth]

Black holes eventually evaporate and disappear.

 

[Merkavar]

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day.

It costs the US Mint approximately 1.5 cents to make every 1 cent coin (and approximately 6 cents to make the nickel, worth 5 cents). This means that they lose money on every penny and nickel they produce ? a total of $22million in 2009 alone.

Walt Disney received one full-size, and seven miniature Oscar statuettes for Snow White.

 

[aeroblaster]

Unless you're 32, you haven't lived for a billion seconds. I actually did the math on that one, as it seemed preposterous. 32 isn't exact, but I didn't go so far into the math as to see EXACTLY when you'd hit a billion seconds.

1 billion seconds = 31 years 8 months 15 days 17 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds

 

[DarkRyter]

People with green eyes can't see dogs.

Uhhh, I have green eyes. And I can see my dog. Am I missing something here?

I've gotten this kind of response at least three times now.

New fact, then. People with green eyes don't understand penny arcade jokes I reference.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/3/22/

 

[Levi93]

The longest word in the world is 1185 characters long.

Also, the fear of long words is called "Hippopotomonstrosesquipidaliophobia".

i know that the longest word in the english language is the chemical name for titin but im not sure if that counts as your talking about the world, it has 189,819 letters.

http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.html

darn ninjas

 

[SnipErlite]

Here's one I hear: Ever 50-72 seconds, someone in the world says mustard.

How did they calculate that?

And for that matter who calculated that?

You only ever breathe through one nostril at a time, never both.

So why if you breath in through your nose and put one finger near both you can feel air inflow on both fingers?

 

[Nimcha]

People used to think blowing smoke up someone's arse would save them from drowning.

 

[FURY_007]

Spoiler: This picture will blow your mind.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU lol, where is that other star?

 

[LuckyClover95]

Out of the millions of races of animal on our planet, only 1 known race has biological immortality. That is to say, it can keep on living forever as long as it isn't killed or doesn't run out of food.

And they're immortal because every time they have sex, they revert back to being a child.

Although most of them never survive much longer than the average human, between 40 and 70 years I believe but I can't really remember.

What creature is that?

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

there is more nitrogen in the atmosphere than oxygen

there were actually helicopters in ww2

people breath/thread

 

[Eggsnham]

If you click your index and thumb together, the noise isn't coming from your fingers rubbing against each other but your finger hitting your palm

The voice acting who played ducky in the land before time was murdered by her abusive dad

The woman who did the voice for Sarabi in The Lion King (Mufasas wife) died of Lung Cancer.

I got loads of useless facts

I'm pretty sure the first one is false, and the other two are just depressing.

Sorry to be a dick, but I'm just sayin'.

OT:

The small piece of waxy flesh connecting the finger and the external fingernail is called a cuticle. Although, that's pretty commonly known.

Cotton swabs remove only a fraction of ones' built up earwax, and will often cause an impacted mass of earwax.

The actual name for earwax is 'Cerumen'.

Asspennies. No reason behind that last one word sentence, I just felt like typing it out.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I'm pretty sure the first one is false, and the other two are just depressing.

Sorry to be a dick, but I'm just sayin'.

Try it yourself, snap your middle finger and thumb together and the sound comes from your middle finger hitting your palm, not the fingers. It seems really obvious once you listen

 

[Eggsnham]

I'm pretty sure the first one is false, and the other two are just depressing.

Sorry to be a dick, but I'm just sayin'.

Try it yourself, snap your middle finger and thumb together and the sound comes from your middle finger hitting your palm, not the fingers. It seems really obvious once you listen

I put something in between to stop any fingerpalm contact and I still got the noise.

Although there was less than with fingerpalm contact, there was still noise.

We should contact Mythbusters..

 

[The Rockerfly]

I put something in between to stop any fingerpalm contact and I still got the noise.

Although there was less than with fingerpalm contact, there was still noise.

We should contact Mythbusters..

I trust my logic with it, maybe it's because there is still noise being made from your finger hitting the object but not as much as the palm
I dunno
I'm too tired
Giant case of cba to say if it's right or wrong so fuck it lets get mythbusters

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Spoiler: This picture will blow your mind.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU lol, where is that other star?

The constellation Canis Majoris.

 

[legion431]

Spoiler: This picture will blow your mind.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU lol, where is that other star?

The constellation Canis Majoris.

Jesus H. Christ! That's one big ass star.

 

[drbarno]

you can walk on custard.