Useless Fact of the Day

honeybee__12

cee134

MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »

cee134 wrote: »

honeybee__12 wrote: »

Think of a number,
double it,
add six,
divide it by half,
subtract the number you originally started with,
your answer is 3.

Even works for π.

Does not work if you divide by half. That'd be x/0.5

That's what I get for typing it in manually and not remembering you can't divide infinity.

ladychris29

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the word for the phobia of long words.

cee134

It's ok to steal someone's girlfriend if your the lead character in a movie.

TerranandKaylynsmommy

A man a plan a canal panama spelled backwards is a man a plan a canal panama. Its the longest palindrome

Rob72Essex

Hitler's nephew was in the US Navy during WW2

cqbkaju

honeybee__12 wrote: »

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Not picking on you directly, but a lot of people are just posting things they *think* are facts, without even fact-checking them.

http://www.didyouknow.it/people/intelligent-people-have-more-zinc-and-copper-in-their-hair/

RandJ6280

the probability of someone watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions.

honeybee__12

cqbkaju wrote: »

honeybee__12 wrote: »

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Not picking on you directly, but a lot of people are just posting things they *think* are facts, without even fact-checking them.

http://www.didyouknow.it/people/intelligent-people-have-more-zinc-and-copper-in-their-hair/

I stand corrected :-)
I won’t be fact checking though...............

honeybee__12

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

cee134

People that work at a money printing factory, make money to make money.

(I don't usually fact check here either)

cee134

If you throw something on a Saturday at 11:59:59 PM, and it lands at 12:00AM, you technically threw it into next week.

cee134

Fry has been frozen for 18 years.

cee134

@MeeseeksAndDestroy

A fact about fiction is still a fact even though it's not true in real life. Is it still a useless fact?

empresssue

cee134 wrote: »

If you throw something on a Saturday at 11:59:59 PM, and it lands at 12:00AM, you technically threw it into next week.

That is what I'm going to do with my son this Saturday night

honeybee__12

I find all the “girl crushes” on MFP to be tedious, false and a bit ridiculous.
There’s a useless FACT.

cee134

MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »

cee134 wrote: »

@MeeseeksAndDestroy

A fact about fiction is still a fact even though it's not true in real life. Is it still a useless fact?

Seems like it'd be even more useless

So this is useless to you?

Harry Potter wears glasses.