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In 1982 Xerox management watched a film of people struggling to use their new copier and laughed that they must have been grabbed off a loading dock. The people struggling were Ron Kaplan, a computational linguist, and Allen Newell, a founding father of artificial intelligence.1
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If you are alone when you crack open a peanut shell and eat the peanut inside, you are the only person in the world to have ever seen that peanut.2
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MistressSara wrote: »If two people are in an elevator and one of them farts, they both know who did it.
Unless they both do it at the same time. Then they both say excuse me at the same time and end up having a moment. I think that's how some romantic comedies start?2 -
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MistressSara wrote: »MistressSara wrote: »If two people are in an elevator and one of them farts, they both know who did it.
Unless they both do it at the same time. Then they both say excuse me at the same time and end up having a moment. I think that's how some romantic comedies start?
Yes, just like that.
Nice... thumb?
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Dogs take MUCH less time to housebreak than people2
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Five years before Superman was created there was a pulp fiction Superhero called 'Doc Savage'. He was known as 'The Man of Bronze,' and had a 'Fortress of Solitude ' in the Arctic. He had superhuman powers, though was not an alien. He was known as a Super Man, oh and his name was Clark.2
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“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was originally planned to start with Indie riding a motorcycle on the Great Wall of China, followed by the discovery of a “Lost World” type of hidden valley with dinosaurs. The idea was scrapped when the Chinese government refused to let them film there.2
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Other than the costume, HeMan and Prince Adam look almost exactly alike. The only difference is that HeMan has a tan.
I suppose once you get a tan, your family and friends no longer recognize you?
I've also always been annoyed that Superman's city, friends, and co-workers no longer recognize him when he puts on or takes off his glasses.1 -
Moonshine alcohol jugs are typically marked with 'XXX' in cartoons because it needs to be distilled 3 times to reach nearly 100% pure alcohol. Each 'X' signifies a distillation.2
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Other than the costume, HeMan and Prince Adam look almost exactly alike. The only difference is that HeMan has a tan.
I suppose once you get a tan, your family and friends no longer recognize you?
I've also always been annoyed that Superman's city, friends, and co-workers no longer recognize him when he puts on or takes off his glasses.
There's a good SNL skit about this.0 -
'b' , 'p' , 'd' and 'q' are all different versions of the same letter.2
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Spongebob has been at the Super Bowl more times than the Detroit Lions.1
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The voice actor who voiced spongebob was also Heffer Wolfe in "Rocko's Modern Life", Ice King in "Adventure Time", narrator for "The Powerpufd Girls" (that's one I actually didn't know before looking it up), Dog in "CatDog", and Carl in "Johnny Bravo".0
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Elephant shrews were called that because they are shrews with flexible noses like an elephant, but genetic analysis discovered they are not true shrews and are actually more closely related to elephants.
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The Song "Hit Me Baby One More Time" was written by a Swede who meant the chorus to mean "hit me up on the phone one more time" but mistranslated it.3
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A jazz musician named Teri Pall invented a version of the cordless phone in 1965 but could not market her invention, as its 2-mile range caused its radio signals to interfere with aircraft communications.1
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The pirate Benjamin Hornigold once raided a merchant ship just to steal the hats from the ship's crew because his crew had gotten too drunk the night before and had thrown their hats overboard.
https://www.history101.com/pirate-benjamin-hornigold-raided-ship/2 -
If you’re thirsty and start drinking a glass of water you’re technically drinking your problems away.
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We're the only animals that exist that know about dinosaurs.1
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Mark Knopfler agreed to allow Weird Al to parody "Money For Nothing" on the condition that Knopfler play the lead guitar on the track to add "authenticity."2
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Male students enrolled at Brigham Young University need a doctor’s note to grow a beard.1
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Darth Vader grew up saying "Yippee!" when he was excited.0
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What?????0
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Lightsaber dueling becomes an official sport in France.
https://nypost.com/2019/02/18/the-force-awakens-lightsaber-dueling-becomes-an-official-sport-in-france/0 -
Verb is a noun.3
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