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    Useless Fact of the Day

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      Having just one walkie talkie is the same as having zero walkie talkies.
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      There is a president from the 1800's with living grandchildren.
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      Polar bears can smell food (animals) from 20 miles away. I read that in a book but it still seems hard to believe.
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      Someone out there will watch Shrek for the first time at some point.
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      You can’t stand backwards on stairs.
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      cee134 wrote: »
      You can’t stand backwards on stairs.

      Except Schrödinger's stairs where you are standing both backwards and forwards
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      NotSo_LittleRichard wrote: »
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      Except Schrödinger's stairs where you are standing both backwards and forwards

      ... or Morbius stairs.
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      The phrase, "There's more than one way to skin the cat" is in reference to catfish. Not cats.
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      So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.
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      The more trendy you look in a photo today, the more silly you'll look in that photo later.
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      JB1775 wrote: »
      The phrase, "There's more than one way to skin the cat" is in reference to catfish. Not cats.

      and when you have enough room to swing one, it’s about a kind of whip, not an animal
    • Posts: 536 Member
      edited April 2019

      There's a tyrants crown laying at Liberty's feet on the New York State flag.
      There's a murder on the Flag of Virginia.
      Guess that's two useless facts.
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      You can’t snap your fingers inside your mouth.
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      The city of Nottingham, UK, named a tram after a locally born actress, Vicky McClure. On her maiden trip on the tram, she was ejected for fare evasion. Having been offered a free ride, she did not have a ticket.
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      If picking up a penny takes 2 seconds then hypothetically it pays $18/hr to pick up pennies.
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      edited April 2019
      We somehow managed to discover Uranus before Antarctica.


      March 13, 1781. The seventh planet – Uranus – was discovered on this date, completely by accident by British astronomer William Herschel.

      On the 27th of January, 1820 a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered an ice shelf at Princess Martha Coast that later became known as the Fimbul Ice Shelf. Bellingshausen and Lazarev became the first explorers to see and officially discover the land of Antarctica continent.
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      The directors of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Baby Driver consulted each other to make sure that the films would not have the same songs on their soundtracks.
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      Slapping one side of someone’s hand is a punishment. Slapping the other side is a reward.
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      cee134 wrote: »
      We somehow managed to discover Uranus before Antarctica.


      March 13, 1781. The seventh planet – Uranus – was discovered on this date, completely by accident by British astronomer William Herschel.

      On the 27th of January, 1820 a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered an ice shelf at Princess Martha Coast that later became known as the Fimbul Ice Shelf. Bellingshausen and Lazarev became the first explorers to see and officially discover the land of Antarctica continent.

      <insert "You're so fat, Uranus is bigger than Antarctica" joke here>
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      Most people have never ridden in the backseat of their own car.
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      If you run away from the ocean you're also running towards the ocean.
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      Cottonmouths and Water Moccasins are the same snake.
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      India housewives hold 11% of the world's gold.
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      There are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are grains of sand on all the world’s beaches.
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      TV laugh tracks were recorded in the earliest days of television.

      So most of the people you hear laughing are now dead.

    • Posts: 33,711 Member
      Nerys52 wrote: »
      India housewives hold 11% of the world's gold.

      16,720 metric tons.
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      Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" was supposed to be titled "Where the Wild Horses Are" but he realized he couldn't draw horses so he changed it to "things" instead.
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      The hydrogen atoms in your glass of water are as old as the universe.





      (Well, slightly less. Hydrogen atoms were created about 300,000 years after the Big Bang. So about 13.5 billion years ago)
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