useless facts

demonherald

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GW has an independent stockist in Dubai and they sell tubs of sand........

cows lay down when it is going to rain to keep a patch of grass dry for eating.


you can\'t move your finger in a clockwise circle while rotating your foot anticlockwise at the ankle.
 

Torn blue sky

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A head hair is thinner than a pubic hair, thus rendering the ball hair as the smallest unit of measurement known to man an utter falacy!

Which is a shame because I like that turn of phrase.
 

Crackpot

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The nose and the ears are the only bodyparts that keep growing the entire life. So you now know why old people look a BIT strange... ;)
 

nunu

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The peanut is not a nut it is a pulse.

@ Demonherald. The toe and finger thing is legend, i just wasted 10 miniutes tring to prove you wrong. I failed :(
 

Roger Bunting

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correction

A correction...
It\'s not technically earth\'s moon...but it\'s sometimes called that...

it really shouldn\'t be though. Wikipedia it, and it has animated diagrams of what it\'s orbit looks like.

Sanjay

Which is why I said it\'s not technically an actual moon. :p
 

mattsterbenz

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As soon as you paint every last one of your miniatures, you die.

At least that\'s what I keep telling myself.

-Matt
 

darklord

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1. it takes a blue whale 8 gallons of blood to get an erection

2. pigs cant look straight up

3. bananas are berries and the banana tree is a herb

4. if you throw something west it will go further than if you throw it east

5 camels need water more often than giraffes

6. more people are killed by hippos each year than by london buses

7. it takes more calories to eat celery than it contains

8. toenails contain gold

9. An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver
 

darklord

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Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Carrots used to be Purple or Black or White.

yeah the dutch who where the world leaders in carrot cultivation decided to honour their country and produced the orange one
 

Infidel Castro

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There\'s a bloke at the local pub who is very loud and opinionated and no-one really likes him. Not a very interesting fact, but it\'s true.
 

uberdark

New member
Originally posted by reverend
There\'s a bloke at the local pub who is very loud and opinionated and no-one really likes him. Not a very interesting fact, but it\'s true.

i like that fact... my favorite thus far.

my 8th grade class are a bunch of gits.
 

demonherald

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Originally posted by nunu
The peanut is not a nut it is a pulse.

@ Demonherald. The toe and finger thing is legend, i just wasted 10 miniutes tring to prove you wrong. I failed :(

I\'ve tried it for about two years ever since I saw it on a kids programme. ... bloody annoying it is...
 

Einion

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We all use a keyboard layout designed originally to make typing as slow as possible.

Birds are insensitive to the heat in chillis.

Diamonds are not the only gemstones capable of scratching glass.

Many people who are colour-blind don\'t discover it until adolescence or young adulthood (shows how important colour isn\'t).

Originally posted by uberdark
1. You can\'t tickle yourself
You can actually.
Originally posted by uberdark
2.There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
I imagine that\'s quite useful to know if you\'re, like, stationed at McMurdo :D


Originally posted by Roger Bunting
The Earth has more than one moon.
Wrong. It\'s not even a satellite by the loosest of definitions.


Originally posted by Shawn R. L.
Balsa wood is technically a hardwood.
Love that one.


Originally posted by BarstoolProphet
Hair and finger/toe-nails continue to grow after the body dies.
Myth. All native bodily functions cease nearly instantaneously upon death.


Originally posted by demonherald
you can\'t move your finger in a clockwise circle while rotating your foot anticlockwise at the ankle.
I can. I can also twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions at the same time (took a fair bit of practice).


Originally posted by johnboyjjb
No matter how large or small a sheet of paper, it can not be folded exactly in half 9 times.
False: see Mythbusters.

Einion
 

supervike

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Originally posted by Torn blue sky
A head hair is thinner than a pubic hair, thus rendering the ball hair as the smallest unit of measurement known to man an utter falacy!

Which is a shame because I like that turn of phrase.

First! Good to see you!

Second...Ball hair? I\'ve never heard that as a small unit of measurment. I have heard the term \'(sensitive readers look away please) Thinner than a red c*nt hair....
 
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