Useless Facts

Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:10 pm

I have found my calling!


2,500 people are sent to the Emergency Room every year with... "Toothbrush injuries."


Oral or anol? :o
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Lil'.KiiDD
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:48 am

Fact: stealing a horse is punishable under death in Texas.
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Jodie Bardgett
 
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In french, potato (pomme de terre) means "earth apple."



Although I already knew this, it's interesting because in Afrikaans "potato" is "aardappel", also meaning "earth apple".
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Maya Maya
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:11 pm

Not to get too off-topic but how does this work? I want my green skin back :(

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1082909-forum-style-alterations/
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Conor Byrne
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:17 pm

Don't all of these facts serve the purpose of increasing the post count of whoever posted them?

one of life's mysteries.
Anywho these were picked off a list:
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

Cats can hear ultrasound.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
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Mizz.Jayy
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:02 am


The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Military_M274_Truck,_Platform,_Utility_1/2_Ton,_4X4
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Juanita Hernandez
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:46 pm

The most stolen book is the bible. At least, that's what facts.com (or something) told me a few months back.

Assuming it's true, I'm gonna have to go jump on the irony train.


Because those Gideons keep leaving them in hotel rooms. Plus it's hard to get a religious person to complain about a stolen bible.
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El Goose
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:27 pm

If you are on an airplane over international waters, there is no drinking age
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Tamika Jett
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:25 pm

not sure, makes sense. Then again I am talking about the military in general making sense.
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Charlotte Lloyd-Jones
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:57 am

If you are on an airplane over international waters, there is no drinking age

no, the airplane is under the jurisdiction of whatever country it took off from until it lands, which is why you can be arrested mid-flight.
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:23 pm

Fact: Black holes don't svck.
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Mark Hepworth
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:38 am

Douglas MacArthur and Commodore Perry were related.

Using the pointer finger at someone is a big deal in Japan.

Bison is more nutritious than cattle.

Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America.

Some of the worlds first universities were in Timbuktu.

Nazi Germany was the first to develop night-vision technology, in the form of the Vampir sight. They also made a curved barrel attachment for Stg44s.

Ackee comes from West Africa.

A kangaroo joey when born is deaf, blind, and about the size of a jellybean.

Rabbits scream when they die.
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Johnny
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:47 pm

Rabbits scream when they die.

Gotta try this...

I'll buy 2 of them.. put 'em in a metal bucket.. have another metal bucket ready... *SMASH*
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Cool Man Sam
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:26 pm

Gotta try this...

I'll buy 2 of them.. put 'em in a metal bucket.. have another metal bucket ready... *SMASH*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Bunny_Suicides
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Crystal Clarke
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:15 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Bunny_Suicides

Veeno..Dude...

You've made me the happiest man.. alive!

Will you marry me?
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An Lor
 
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Veeno..Dude...

You've made me the happiest man.. alive!

Will you marry me?

Sorry, straight here.



Or are you a girl? :hubbahubba:
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Lil'.KiiDD
 
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Post » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:11 am

Or are you a girl? :hubbahubba:

If you want me to be. <3
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glot
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:40 pm

The reverend Burrell Cannon flew a year before the Wright Brothers. The "Ezekiel Airship" was designed after how Rev. Cannon interpreted the flying ship described in the Book of Ezekiel.
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Ria dell
 
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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

Charlie Brown's father was a barber

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

A whale's [censored] is called a dork.

A barnacle has the largest [censored] of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

Starfish don't have brains.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.

ok im done for now
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Lindsay Dunn
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:43 pm

no, the airplane is under the jurisdiction of whatever country it took off from until it lands, which is why you can be arrested mid-flight.

Hm, odd, I've always been told otherwise. :shrug:
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Nicole Elocin
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:18 pm

Hm, odd, I've always been told otherwise. :shrug:


As have I, which is why (for example) customers from Saudi Arabia (no alcohol in S.A.) boarding planes leaving the country are allowed to be served alcohol after leaving S.A.'s jurisdiction.
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Anna S
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:51 pm

If you want me to be. <3

0_o


Well to be frank I want everyone except me to be a girl. :evil:



Aaanyway...

The symbol # is called http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe.
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Elisabete Gaspar
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:24 pm

0_o


Well to be frank I want everyone except me to be a girl. :evil:



Aaanyway...

The symbol # is called http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe.


That is the pound symbol you fool! Damn you Alize, stop that mesmerizing dance! You've been doing it for years.....
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Eduardo Rosas
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:53 pm

I see alot of us use the same thing or the "useless facts" get recycled all over the place. Keep them coming.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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Rik Douglas
 
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Post » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:19 pm

By the time you're done reading this, 200 children will have starved to death.

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington was once bitten in the ass by a poisonous spider (He later announced it on stage during a show soon after).

Spanish and Italian are close to being the same language. This is probably because they both stemmed from Latin.

50% of Americans never read a book for pleasure again after high school.

Hitler's wife had one of the first color video camera in existence.

Stephen King likes to eat Junior Mints on toothpicks. He calls them "Mint Kabobs."
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