Lots-o-usless facts

GameKinG · 06-22-2002, 02:51 AM

- When Sony introduced the portable stereo battery-powered headphones-only cassette player in 1979, they named it the 'Soundabout.' Soon afterward they changed the name to 'Walkman.'

- Cambodian-Americans operate more than three-fourths of California's ~2500 doughnut shops.

- Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are fraternal, not identical, twins.

- March 4th is the only day of the year that can also be used as a command. (March forth.)

- Canada has the highest college attendance rate in the world.

- Welshmen steal most of their food from the Scots.

- A man in Cuba reportedly has a head shaped like a banana.

- Bubble gum contains tiny amounts of plastic explosives.

- Thomas Edison held more than 1,300 eating world records

- Pepper is one of the main ingredients of dynamite.

- Apples can melt in very hot weather.

- Ten percent of the Italian government's income comes from the sale of salami.

- There are 178 different types of bacteria on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

- There are two credit cards for every chicken in the world.

- Experts believe that in the year 2006, the world's most popular boy’s name will be Raymond, with the most popular girl's name being either Judy or Martha

More facts later

ed328 · 06-22-2002, 08:58 AM

LOL Great list of facts.

Another "fact" for you:
Did you know that the United States has never lost a war in which water pistols were used?

Revival · 06-22-2002, 11:27 AM

More stuff...

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

To buy a McDonald's extra value meal in Russia it would cost the average Russian worker 1 months pay.

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Russians generally answer the phone by saying, "I'm listening".

All U.S Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

No president of the United States was an only child.

It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.

Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.

Every swiss citizen is required to have access to a bomb shelter.

More later...

Jonbo298 · 06-22-2002, 12:09 PM

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Originally posted by Shooter

Every swiss citizen is required to have access to a bomb shelter.

Aren't the swiss neutral to everyone else? Why must they have access to a bomb shelter? It just sounds strange to me.

Jin · 06-22-2002, 12:28 PM

These are pretty interesting. Man, what I'd do to see that man in Cuba.

Happydude · 06-22-2002, 01:07 PM

hmmmm.....some of those are from shooters profile on AIM...if not all of them...

and these facts really are useless

Revival · 06-22-2002, 01:31 PM

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Originally posted by happydude666
hmmmm.....some of those are from shooters profile on AIM...if not all of them...

I have random laws in my subprofile

GameKinG · 06-22-2002, 04:37 PM

More useless facts...

- Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.

- A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as .coms.

- A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

- You're just as likely to die by falling out of bed then you are to get struck by lightning; each is a 1 in 2,000,000 chance. You have a 1 in 3,000,000 chance of being killed by a snake.

- You're more likely to get hit on the head by a coconut and dieing, then getting bitten by a shark.

- A broken clock is right at least twice a day.

- The Sun isn't round. It is flattened on the top and the bottom.

- If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.

- Government by a woman or women is called a "gynarchy."

- A “fruit machine” is the British term for a slot machine, or “one-armed bandit.”

- "Singapore" means "City of Lions," but none have ever been seen there.

- A girl or woman swimmer can be called a "naiad."

More facts soon.

bobcat · 06-23-2002, 02:33 AM

You want the useless facts!?!? You can't handle the useless facts!!

Dunno if these r tru or not

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second

3,000 teens start smoking a day.

314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1995.

35% of all Americans are overweight.

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells all while you have been reading this sentence.

67.5% of men wear briefs instead of boxers.

75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower

80% of all body heat escapes through the head.

85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

5ft 5 inch tall 27-year old woman weighing 374 pounds outflabbed 1,000 competitors to win the title of fattest woman in China. Her prize - a supply of diet food.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.

A lifetime supply of all the vitamins you need weighs only about eight ounces.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

A new born baby breathes five times faster than an adult man.

A noisy restaurant is 100,000 times as loud as a watch ticking. Rock concert is 1,000,000,000 times as loud. Loud headphones 10,000,000,000. Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000.

A pack-day smoker will approx. lose 2 teeth every ten years.

A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb.

A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.

A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, a definite taste sensation results.

A pistacio nut is green inside

A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.

Canyarion · 01-19-2004, 10:31 AM

lol.

BTW I can't believe that the Olsen twins are fraternal, not identical... :eek: They look just like eachother!

Jason1 · 01-19-2004, 10:54 AM

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Well DUH! This could probably be said about just about any state in the midwest or probably east coast.

DimHalo · 01-19-2004, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by bobcat

A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.

I don't think that one is true for everyone...wouldn't it be a diffferent number if the jogger had a different stride (longer or shorter)?

Vampyr · 01-19-2004, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by jeepnut's slave

I don't think that one is true for everyone...wouldn't it be a diffferent number if the jogger had a different stride (longer or shorter)?

It was probably an average.

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- You're just as likely to die by falling out of bed then you are to get struck by lightning; each is a 1 in 2,000,000 chance. You have a 1 in 3,000,000 chance of being killed by a snake.

That's the one I have trouble believing. Ive heard of a lot of people getting hit by lightning, and I know people who have been hit. Ive never known someone to die from falling out of the bed.

DimHalo · 01-19-2004, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

Ive never known someone to die from falling out of the bed.

well, I haven't either... but I can see how it could happen when in college dorms the beds often are about 6 ft off the ground

Rndm_Perfection · 01-19-2004, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

That's the one I have trouble believing. Ive heard of a lot of people getting hit by lightning, and I know people who have been hit. Ive never known someone to die from falling out of the bed.

Lightning is spectacular and very newsworthy... as falling out of bed is not.

*Survival Stories, on Maury Povich! *sp**

Bob: *twitches* Yeah... I got *twitch* struck by lightning back when *neck jolts* I was playing golf.

Joe (who is heavily bandaged): I unfortunately couldn't make it to that golf game. I had a rough night and *looks away* ... I fell out of my bed. It was awful. I was falling in my sleep *eyes swell* and then... I ... there were hard objects on the ground too!

Maury: It's ok Joe. You survived. And that's what makes you an angel. Now... everybody, send your money to these gifts from God.

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Well... the odds that "you" will die by lightning or bed are much slimmer than the 1 of 2 million, or whatever it was. Lightning only strikes people outside, and bed-falling only strikes people who are in beds that are high... or people who are frail and in beds.

As for the snakes... their bites aren't insta-death like falling or lightning. Antidotes have been made, and people are aware of the threat of snakes.