Useless Information.

[C-pher]

What are some things that are cool to know, but that’s about it.

Post your one piece of Useless Information. We’ll all take turns.


How about…Glass is a Liquid, not a solid.

 

[FPrice]

Ice cream has no bones.

 

[Adam_MA]

"My cats breath smells like cat food"

 

[C-pher]

"My cats breath smells like cat food"

Wasn't that a line from Ralph Wiggum.

 

[Adam_MA]

BINGO!

 

[NoOne1]

All atoms, besides Hydrogen an some of the Helium were formed in stars. After the Big Bang, all that existed was lots of energy in various forms, Hydrogen and Helium (probably some plasma and maybe trace amount of a few heavier elements). These gases coalesced into super stars that burned very hot and quickly. The gravitational forces from the star formed most of the atoms up to and including iron and a few beyond. All Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Copper, and more formed this way (and continue to form in stars today). Then the stars Super Novaed and in the process formed some of the heavier metals and flung this material into space. This happened billions of times. This matter was pulled into other stars and some of it formed orbits. The matter attracted together more matter and eventually planets were formed. Life evolved, tools were used, computers were invented and then I typed this.
For our day to day lives, this is rather useless information but I still think it is interesting.
NoOne1

 

[dwarven1]

What is called Damascus steel today is what used to be called "pattern welded". True Damascus was forged at a comparatively low heat - less than 800 degrees - where as pattern welded has to be worked at welding temperatures which are much higher.

 

[Moderator]

Nice gun, Can I try it? in simplified Chinese

精密槍, 我可以嘗試它嗎?

 

[Weerd Beard]

I like to keep track of actors that were turned down for roles in major films.

Like Ron Reagan almost got the part as Rick in Casablanca.

Origonally Tom Selleck was cast as Indiana Jones for "Raiders of the Lost Ark", but he stepped down from the project to do Magnum PI.

I gots loads more, but those are my faves!

Arrrrr

-Weer'd Beard

 

[C-pher]

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

 

[Pilgrim]

If you take the 'smell receptors' from a human nose and flatten them out, they are about the size of a postage stamp.

If you do the same to a dog, it will be the size of a table napkin.

Useless info but interesting, I think.

 

[MidKnight]

I love useless info. I was on a game show once. Out in the first round. My parting gift was one nice coffee maker tho. This was not my useless info.

Watson and Crick found the double helix nature of DNA.

This one is interesting if I can word it right...
In Chaos Theory, chaotic functions replicate in size at the same ratio as fractal geometric formations. Also, fractals are neither two dimensional nor 3 dimensional. There is mathematical evidence of this, but an easier way of saying it is... it's a closed line of infinate length with finite area.

Flamingoes are pink because of the shrimp that they eat. And they stand on one leg because if they lifted the other, they'd fall.

Good thread. I'll have more when I'm not at work being a nerd.

 

[C-pher]

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

And being that we all work in an office, I heard that an office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

 

[Admin]

And being that we all work in an office, I heard that an office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

Great, where the hell is the Lysol?

 

[Grifter]

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.

The smallest number spelled with an "a" is one thousand.

If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.

 

[Walter Smitty]

North Dakota's state flag is a late nineteenth century United States Army infantry regimental standard.

 

[JonJ]

An elephant's gestation period is 22 months.

 

[Weerd Beard]

A male praying mantis is unable to copulate with his head attached.

Mrs. Mantis chews his head off!

Arrrrr

-Weer'd Beard

PS: A lot of my useless facts involve the naughty-bits of the animal kingdom

 

[KMaurer]

Female New Zealand mudsnails, aphids and a couple of species of mites all manage to get pregnant before they're born.

Iron is the most stable of all atomic nuclei: heavier nuclei can release energy through fission, while lower nuclei can do the same through fusion.

In 1863, President and Mrs Lincoln watched John Wilkes Booth perform in at Ford's Theater. Booth and several other actors later formed an oil company in western Pennsylvania.

Ken

 

[Moderator]

The male seahorse not only fertilizes the eggs of a female, but he carries them to term and gives birth. ouch!

 

[C-pher]

Water is the only molecule that can be in all three states, liquid, water, and gas at Earth's ordinary temperatures. And they say that it's common to have all three phases together at the same time. You can't find that with any other molecule.

And I always thought that this was cool. That the only living tissue in the human body that contains no blood vessels is the transparent cornea of the eye. It's the firm, smooth outer shell that arcs across in front of the iris and pupil. The cornea contains no blood vessels because it must be perfectly clear. Even one tiny capillary would cast the shadow of hundreds of streaming blood cells into the light coming through the pupil. Without blood to provide oxygen and nutrients, the cornea must get them from somewhere else. Nutrients come from the tears and from the liquid (aqueous humor) that fills the chamber behind the cornea. Oxygen is no problem, since the cornea is in direct contact with the air.

Had to look that one up becuase I couldn't remember all of it.

 

[Weerd Beard]

While snapping turtles hybernate beneath the mud of ponds, they use thier rectum as a crude gill to aquire enugh oxygen untill the pond thaws!

Arrr

-Weer'd Beard

 

[MidKnight]

...

The "Triple Point" of a substance (water) is the point on a graph of tempature and pressure where the substance can coexist in all 3 states - liquid, gas and solid.

 

[JonJ]

In Massachusetts you can turn LEFT on red....But only....?

 

[C-pher]

In Massachusetts you can turn LEFT on red....But only....?

Going from a one way to a one way.

I'm pretty sure that's the law in many states.

 

[SiameseRat]

In IQ testing on dogs, as a breed, the Standard Poodle is the smartest dog...

 

[SiameseRat]

Pigs can be house trained like dogs and bunny rabbits can be litter trained like cats...

 

[swatmedic]

In IQ testing on dogs, as a breed, the Standard Poodle is the smartest dog...

and the Great Dane is #54.

 

[Chris]

Lincoln's son was saved by Booth's brother as he was about to fall of a railroad platform into the arriving train's path. Several weeks later, the brother shot the father.

The only live born animal less able to fend for themselves than the human child are marsupials who crawl into a mother's pouch to further develop.

 

[Moderator]

After consuming beer, Vikings would often head fearlessly into battle without armour or even shirts. This is where we get the term "berserk", which means "bare shirt" in Norse.