On my homepage, I have a Uselessfacts thingy, (what do you call them? I have Google and you can add stuff to your homepage). It's starting to do repeats now, but I love them. I thought maybe others do not know about it, so let's share our useless facts.

Here is one that blew me away.

Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula' and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, 'L.A.'

Another one is, it said you can't sneeze with your eyes open. I have tried and so far I always blink.

Another one is, a snail can sleep for 3 years.

If I see some more, I will post them. Please post your useless facts.

[Fact]I have no pants on.[/Fact]

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/724862-forum-rules-and-general-information/

Scatter!

That one's false. It's possible, only a bit difficult.

I read it, what is wrong? I see posts all the time in general? What is so wrong with my topic?

Nothing wrong, just someone trying to be smart.

Did you rike it?

Wait...


I AM smart.

The average size of a business card in the United States is 2 inches by 3.5

The average male does not boast of pantslessness, but lets it be.

The scuppernong is the state fruit of North Carolina.

The venus flytrap is indigenous to the state of North Carolina.

Your avatar... it winked at me!

Useless Fact- The bit of plastic at the end of your shoelace is called an aglet.

Ah I see the humour now. For a sec I thought I did something wrong LOL.

Here is anotheone, I find humours.

You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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.

The average human eats 3 spiders in their sleep during the course of their life.



That makes sense since the most SOLD (printed?) book is the Bible, but that's common knowledge. It's also ironic because, well, yeah.

Did you know:
John Tyler was the first president to be married in office.
Part of the Dead Seas scrolls appeared for sale in the June 1, 1954 issue of the Wall Street Journal.
Danishes are called Vienna cakes in Denmark.
The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long.
For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mt. Everest there is 1 fatality.
Americans are responsible for creating roughly 20% of garbage in the world.
A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.
Salt caravans crossing the Sahara desert sometimes number as many as 40,000 camels.
I don't wash my hands after using the restroom.
As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore the more ripe the banana, the sweeter the taste.
30% of McDonald's profits come from Happy Meals.

And the average spider eats 3 humans during the course of their life.

I know a whole bunch of useless stuff:

If Earth were the size and weight of a table tennis ball, the Sun would measure 12 feet and weigh 3 tons. On this scale, Earth would orbit the sun at a distance of 1,325 feet.

A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 17 miles per second to escape Earth’s gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about 20 seconds.

John Hanson—not George Washington—was legally the first president of the United States, When Congress met in 1781, the country was governed by the Articles of Confederation, which were adopted in 1777 and ratified by the states in 1781. At that meeting, Congress elected John Hanson its "President of the U.S. in Congress assembled." After that, George Washington became the first president of the country under the U.S. Constitution in 1789.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second, it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

The word decimate came into being from motivational techniques employed by Roman commanders. Whenever a legion performed dismally during combat, every tenth soldier was killed. The Latin for this process is decimare, stemming from decimus, or "tenth."

The strongest bone in the body, the thigh bone, is hollow. Ounce for ounce, it has a greater pressure tolerance and bearing strength than a rod of equivalent size in cast steel. When an average advlt is walking, his weight puts a downward pressure of 12,000 pounds per square inch on each thighbone. In this case, even the thinnest part of the thighbone, at 1-inch thick, supports the weight of a male African elephant.

When you have a black eye, you have a bilateral periorbital hematoma.

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than a hundred years before either moon was discovered. :blink:

I see what you did there. ^_^

But, :yuck:

:disguise:

Fact: I opened the link, scrolled down a bit, and the first word I saw was "Nudity" :hubbahubba:

Fact: The description of one of the rules says: "No "what forum skin do you use" threads", but this is no longer needed as an example since the new update only has one skin. ^_^ If you other people would read the rules, you would have caught that.

I have found my calling!

Snail mating can take up to 12 hours. They do it only once in their lifetimes.

More people have walked on the moon than visited the bottom of the ocean.

NASA can no longer build the Saturn V rocket- almost everything related to it was, er, lost.

NASA could have carried out moon landings up to Apollo XX (20).

The United States Government spent about 23 million dollars in 2005. Nobody knows what they spent it on- it's unaccounted for.

Deep-Sea fish can explode if they are brought rapidly to the surface (du-u-uh.)

King Tut was buried with 145 pairs of loincloth underwear.

Iceland is home to 120 glaciers and 100 volcanos.

Bugs Bunny eats Danver variety carrots.

Every year, doctors leave surgical tools in about 1500 patients.

Crickets can't hear their own chirping.

Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in french literature- 823 words.

For 600 years, the official language of England was French.

99% of pumpkins sold in the US end up becoming jack-o-lanterns.

Edward Despard, in 1803, was the last criminal to be drawn and quartered in England.

In New York, it's illegal to do anything illegal.

Jay Leno's childhood nickname was "Chinzo."

June 2nd is National Bubba Day.

Astronauts get "spacesick" so often that the space shuttle's toilet has a setting for vomit.

In Paraguay, dueling is legal as long as both participants are registered blood donors.

The balanced diet of a human is the same for a rat.

Giraffes are the only animals born with their horns.

Human tapeworms can grow up to 75 feet long.

North Dakota is the only state in the US to never have an earthquake.

In french, potato (pomme de terre) means "earth apple."

There are about 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on the world's beaches.

At -90^oF, your breath will freeze and drop to the ground.

The world's largest art museum is the Hermitage, in Russia, containing 322 galleries, and contains nearly 3 million works of art.

Octopuses are deaf.

Pope John Paul II was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

Every American and Russian space-flight menu has included chocolate.

The town of Levan, in the center of Utah, is "navel" spelled backwards.

Shortest complete sentence in English: "Go."

In Hot Springs, Arkansas, it's illegal to gargle in public.

Cats, when given an unlimited suppy of mice, will kill about 15 before stopping.

In Canada, it's illegal to board a plane while it's in flight (try pulling THAT one off!)

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

Bless, in it's old english form, meant "to consencrate in blood."

A cat is 30% less likely to survive a fall from a 7-story window than a 20-story window.

Dental Crowns are (slightly) radioactive.

That's it for this post!

That is not true. The forum actually sports 3 official skins, just by default the option to change it is hidden, but it can be unlocked by running this bookmarklet:

javascript:window.document.getElementById('footer_utilities').setAttribute('class', 'clearfix clear rounded')

which will show the theme changer in the bottom left-hand corner

Also all the cool forum members rock out with their own custom css.

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

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