Interesting and yet useless facts

[Futurama]

Think of this as the "Pub Ammo" thread. Post interesting, and yet utterly useless facts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The skin on your elbow it called your Weenus.

 

 

 

You cannot lick your elbows. 50% of people will try to lick their elbow after reading this fact.

 

 

 

Studies prove that if your friend won't tell you where their birth mark is, it's on their wagon or privates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep it safe for work, and keep it interesting. These topics are always fun no matter what :)

[Shas_O_Jay]

Not to rain on your parade or anything, but a select few can lick their elbows, and they generally send in a picture to The Guiness Book of World Records :D (probably something like .01% of people)

[krunkthemonk]

Not to rain on your parade or anything, but a select few can lick their elbows, and they generally send in a picture to The Guiness Book of World Records :D (probably something like .01% of people)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This guy can. Thank you google :P Interesting facts... I guess so.

[99Diablo99]

hmm interesting....

[hells_box]

GOLF stands for Gentleman Only Ladies Forbidden.....and o yeah! Both Hitler and Napolean only had one testacle each. Maybe that's why they were mad at the world?

[Rob_Gambino]

More people die from calling coconuts than shark attacks. Vending maches kill 5 people each year. A can of spam is opened every 20 seconds. That's all I can think of right now.

[andyrules89]

If you throw a penny off the empire state building, it could kill some one below.

[mhrobinson2]

If you throw a penny off the empire state building, it could kill some one below.

myth busters says no

[Purcell364]

 

If you throw a penny off the empire state building, it could kill some one below.

myth busters says no

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

can't argue with that.

[devilheart14]

 

Not to rain on your parade or anything, but a select few can lick their elbows, and they generally send in a picture to The Guiness Book of World Records :D (probably something like .01% of people)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This guy can. Thank you google :P Interesting facts... I guess so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

firstly bad quality could just as easily be a trick and they are touching the isde of the elbow and not their actuall elbow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there are 2 credit cards for every person in the united states

[Rizla]

If you throw a penny off the empire state building, it could kill some one below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I doubt it, once it reached terminal velocity it wouldn't descend any faster. Don't get me wrong, i'd imagine it would smart a bit, but i doubt it would kill.

[Bubsa]

I recommend anyone living in Britain to buy the useless book of information, I have :P. It's full of beauties like these.

[Pete_the_Viscous]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

firstly bad quality could just as easily be a trick and they are touching the isde of the elbow and not their actuall elbow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah..... that's true. I've seen it done properly, though--some people just have really long tongues and can bend that way. *Tries, and fails--looks like a fool, too.*

[limpxbizkid]

The average bowl of free pub peanuts contains traces of 8 types of urine (the country wasnt specified, so we'll just say britian for fun :P )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cats never meow at each other, it's a way of communicating with humans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The plant ancestor of the carrot was purple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every square inch of your skin contains 20 million microscopic insects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More people were killed by the 4th of July fireworks than in the entire Revolutionary War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 out of 500 people has one blue eye and one brown eye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It takes 12 ears of corn to make one tablespoon of corn oil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No words rhyme with the words "Month" or "Purple"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whales put into the ocean 360 gallons of love-juice when they are making sweet, sweet love to their women...gotta love ebaumsworld.. (And you wonder how the sea got so salty)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is more bacteria under a person's fingernails, then there is in an average bathroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are more chickans in the world than people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you were to gather all the worms that are alive right now, there combined wieght would be more than the combined wieght of every mammal on this planet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can re-arrange the letters in "Clint Eastwood" to form "Old West Action"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you were to line up every Chinese person (single file) and tell them to walk past you, the line would never end (assumign they could still give birth in the line)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Napoleon III suffered from ailurophobia, which is a fear of cats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in waking you up in the morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The little plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only country to register zero births in 1983 was the 'Vatican City'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu'

 

 

 

is the name of a hill in New Zealand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

uhh, yea thats all i got. some interesting things here. i think some of em r complete bs tho. like the Andes one.

[hohto]

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same in Finnish casinos (At least Salmi's casinos), that's because time might stress people or remind them how the time runs. There's also no windows to see out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One fact: After lowering the alcohol task, Alko (company holding monopoly over alcohol in Finland) has sold more alcohol than ever, yet people say on every test that they drink less or as much as earlier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psychiatrics commit suicide twice more often than people who they are supposed to help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

40% of Swedes have a last name which ends to -son (LarsSON, EriksSON, etc)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On an average, right handed people live approx 9 years longer than left handed. Do you still think it's something special being a lefty?

[Mayjest]

There are so many things. There's the similaritys between Kennedy and Lincoln.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both the assassins have the same amount of letter in their name (15 I think)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lincoln was shot in a theatre and the assassin ran to a warehouse to hide, Kennedy was vica versa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And my favourite: A week before Lincoln was shot he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot he was in Marylin Monroe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and others:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For every person in New Zealand, there are 8 sheep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June and July are the time when people aged 16 - 22 are most likely to get sick. The reason? Exam stress.

[barnacleboy5]

The last thing Elvis ate before he died was four spoon with ice cream and six chocolate cookies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elephants are only the animals who cannot jump.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are 3 billions chickens in China.

[KnightLite]

for those those who think nothing rhymes with purple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The baby is crying

 

 

 

His face is turning purple

 

 

 

Will anything make him feel better?

 

 

 

i bet a burp'll ;)

[fire_skulll300]

the longest word in the english language has 1609 letters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i can lick my elbow wont post a pick because of privacy though

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there are no rhymes for the word silver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chopping onions under water prevents you from crying as a result of the onions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the vatican the the smallest country in the world (around 12100m^2 i think someone told me)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and the most amazing one of all im hungry... :twisted:

[Ryan]

Think of this as the "Pub Ammo" thread. Post interesting, and yet utterly useless facts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The skin on your elbow it called your Weenus.

 

 

 

You cannot lick your elbows. 50% of people will try to lick their elbow after reading this fact.

 

 

 

Studies prove that if your friend won't tell you where their birth mark is, it's on their wagon or privates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep it safe for work, and keep it interesting. These topics are always fun no matter what :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You lose

[AniseCookies]

most akward silences only last for 7 seconds

[jesselt]

IMO these facts are'nt useless, but here we goo....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) This topic has been posted before and will probably be posted again.

 

 

 

2) 1 in every 3 people will die as a result of smoking.

[Ryan]

Don't quote me if you're cool.

[jesselt]

 

 

Think of this as the "Pub Ammo" thread. Post interesting, and yet utterly useless facts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The skin on your elbow it called your Weenus.

 

 

 

You cannot lick your elbows. 50% of people will try to lick their elbow after reading this fact.

 

 

 

Studies prove that if your friend won't tell you where their birth mark is, it's on their wagon or privates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep it safe for work, and keep it interesting. These topics are always fun no matter what :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You lose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fact: this person should have pressed the "edit" button, not the "quote" button :P

[limpxbizkid]

the longest word in the english language has 1609 letters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yea, im pretty sure ive seen it. i think its a hydrocrabon wiht like over 1000 carbon atoms per molecule! so i dont think it counts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the longest i can think of is Antidisestablishmentarianism (just to check the spelling it was in mswords dictionary :lol: )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 entry found for Antidisestablishmentarianism.

 

 

 

Main Entry: antidisestablishmentarianism

 

 

 

Part of Speech: noun

 

 

 

Definition: originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, now opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country

 

 

 

Example: When people are asked for the longest word they know, they often say antidisestablishmentarianism