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DID YOU KNOW?... The Useless Knowledge Thread...

Tangent said:
That sounds like a prank designed to get people to smack themselves in the head really hard. :p
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LOL. It isn't. Trust me, try it out. Heck challenge a big guy for a few bucks to pull your hand off your head.

Tangent said:
If you drink enough grape soda, the food coloring in it will turn your poo green.
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The same thing happens with your pee if you eat too many beets. your pee turns red. Kind of freaky really.
 
All great whales have two nostrils, except the Sperm whale.

Killer whales (Orcas) are not whales, but the largest member of the dolphin family.

The correct pluralization of octopus is octopedes, not octopi.

Objects have no color in perfect darkness.
 
InstantKarma said:
All great whales have two nostrils, except the Sperm whale.

Killer whales (Orcas) are not whales, but the largest member of the dolphin family.

The correct pluralization of octopus is octopedes, not octopi.

Objects have no color in perfect darkness.
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Along those lines, Whale Sharks are the largest living species of fish.
 
Did you know that most of this useless knowledge is on the bottom of a Snapple cap?

and also Snapple is NOT made from the best stuff on earth.
 
When seen from a high enough altitude, rainbows are a complete circle.

If a white cat has one blue eye, the chances are very good that it is also deaf in the ear on the same side of its head as the blue eye.
 
In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

and...

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.:eek:
 
The speed of light is approx 186,283 miles per second.
Mile is approx 5,283 feet long.

And no, didn't look these up =)
 
Here's one, since I just finished watching the Seinfeld reunion on Curb your Enthusiasm :D

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
 
The G and J keys are located right next to each other on your keyboard.

Highlight below for something cool!
You owe me a funny picture if you actually had to look.
 
Oooo, I like this thread..

Cows cannot walk down stairs.

If you assigned each letter a number (A=1, B=2, ect.) somewhere in pi there is the complete works of Shakespeare. (Note that the real fact is that there's any and every letter combination in pi, so you can find everything eventually, but that's not as impressive-sounding.)

The closest color to pure black is a black hole. The closest color to pure white is snow.

There's 88..
- keys on a piano
- constellations of stars
- counties in Ohio
 
Roze said:
Oh that one is one of the most useless facts out there...why would a cow need to walk down the stairs XD I wonder how someone found THAT out :rolleyes: lol
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But the question remains why did it go up the stairs in the first place. :confused:

as for this...
ScorpDX said:
Every human has a tongue print just as unique and their finger print!
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That is exactly what the TSA will be doing to you next at airport security. You have been warned. :D

TS
 
twospirits said:
That is exactly what the TSA will be doing to you next at airport security. You have been warned.
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I may have had a misguided youth but never once did I feel the need to lick anything at a crime scene so good luck to them in finding a match!
 
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