301 useless facts

Tech3

heres a site I stumbed upon one day, some interesting facts!!

http://www.singlegrain.com/blog/301-useless-facts/

Shacklebolt

77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.


But its impossible to sink in quicksand at all!

:rolleyes:

giggsy664

The us 1 dollar bill one is cool. I can't find the spider but I can find the owl!!!

jaffa20

lol, i had lots of fun reading the comments with each of them trying to disprove each fact.:D:D

Tech3

"Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on"

I cant get my head around this one, I mean how can you possibly kill yourself putting your trousers on!!

did a google on it and cant find any stories relating to this!

gerky

There are a lot of them really stretching the word fact, yes a person can sneeze with their eyes open without them popping out:rolleyes:

Turd Ferguson

tech2 wrote: »

"Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on"

I cant get my head around this one, I mean how can you possibly kill yourself putting your trousers on!!

did a google on it and cant find any stories relating to this!

That's the problem, you are trying to put your head in your trousers. Wise up man or you'll be one of those statistics.

Tech3

And a turd would be all the wiser, eh!!

DanGerMus

145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Each

Well that explains a lot.

Catari Jaguar

They're funny. Such bulls**t though.

Thank god for Snopes eh?

spinandscribble

14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”, Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca, and they NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek.

94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).

103. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Earthhorse

Some good stuff in there.

34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

Handy.

37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

KABOOM!

61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

Ah, the old yawn and to get the arm around her shoulder. Lee, you old smoothy!

S.I.R

109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.


so much for being unique

giggsy664

S.I.R wrote: »

109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.


so much for being unique

Is it like your annual birthday (ie 3 jan) or your day of birth (ie 3 jan 1985)

What about a 100 year old. If its option 2, teh internetz haz lying!

DenMan

103. A snail can sleep for 3 years.


I particularly like this one. Lucky thing.

jaffa20

DenMan wrote: »

103. A snail can sleep for 3 years.


I particularly like this one. Lucky thing.

Yeah, it'd be great to sleep through this damn recession.

S.I.R

giggsy664 wrote: »

Is it like your annual birthday (ie 3 jan) or your day of birth (ie 3 jan 1985)

What about a 100 year old. If its option 2, teh internetz haz lying!

ya mainzzz !!!11!!!

gontaz getz me roflcopter... and 3ndz th1$


brb.

Sean Quagmire

187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

You bastards!

lee_arama

Funny stuff.

115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.

ANd how does this work? Seriously? What do you take as scale? Do they mean if they arbitrarily made a doll larger than a real person?


And I think they DID say "Beam me up Scotty" - in the ST:TNG episode Relics... Could be wrong here though...

"Now that you have gone through the list it is up to you to figure out which facts are true and which facts are false."




That ruined it for me


I thought they were all real.

giggsy664

lee_arama wrote: »

Funny stuff.

115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.

ANd how does this work? Seriously? What do you take as scale? Do they mean if they arbitrarily made a doll larger than a real person?


And I think they DID say "Beam me up Scotty" - in the ST:TNG episode Relics... Could be wrong here though...

They got the average female height, divided it by her height and multiplied her height by the answer?

DazMarz

"43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)"

Right, I'm off to buy some superglue, pepper and a camara. Get one of my mates locked, superglue his eyes open... you can probably guess the rest...:D

"51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos."

In addition to no windows, fresh oxygen being pumped in and the lighting adjusted so that should you glimpse yourself in a mirror you look as healthy and robust as possible. This fact is also true about most casinos/card rooms across the globe (the clocks and windows one anyway).

"82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying"

This does work.

"263. Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag."

Bit of a self-contradiction there; if Switzerland has a square flag, then Nepal IS NOT the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag...

"272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash."

Dunno if this is true, but it's defo true for the President Of The United States and the Vice-President. In fact, they are rarely, if ever, seen together in public, in case both are simultaneously assassinated. Should such an incident arise, that the POTUS and the VP are killed simultaneously, the Speaker For The House Of Representatives would become the President. To date, such an incident has never arisen.

seanybiker

rape is reported every 6 minutes in the U.S.
That person must have some sore hole by now

Donny5

DazMarz wrote: »

"263. Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag."

Bit of a self-contradiction there; if Switzerland has a square flag, then Nepal IS NOT the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag...

The square is a special case of the rectangle, and therefore squares are rectangles.

norwegianwood

22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Hmmm...and we're wondering why kids are getting tubby these days....

giggsy664

DazMarz wrote: »

"272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash."

Dunno if this is true, but it's defo true for the President Of The United States and the Vice-President. In fact, they are rarely, if ever, seen together in public, in case both are simultaneously assassinated. Should such an incident arise, that the POTUS and the VP are killed simultaneously, the Speaker For The House Of Representatives would become the President. To date, such an incident has never arisen.

And, at the inauguration, all but 1 member of Congress is present, as if DC is nuked, they have 1 elected representitive.