Useless Fact of the Day

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Having just one walkie talkie is the same as having zero walkie talkies.
  • Shamirgrant
    Shamirgrant Posts: 36 Member
    There is a president from the 1800's with living grandchildren.
  • GreenValli
    GreenValli Posts: 1,054 Member
    Polar bears can smell food (animals) from 20 miles away. I read that in a book but it still seems hard to believe.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Someone out there will watch Shrek for the first time at some point.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You can’t stand backwards on stairs.
  • NotSo_LittleRichard
    NotSo_LittleRichard Posts: 1,004 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    You can’t stand backwards on stairs.

    Except Schrödinger's stairs where you are standing both backwards and forwards
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    NotSo_LittleRichard wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    You can’t stand backwards on stairs.

    Except Schrödinger's stairs where you are standing both backwards and forwards

    ... or Morbius stairs.
  • JB1775
    JB1775 Posts: 136 Member
    The phrase, "There's more than one way to skin the cat" is in reference to catfish. Not cats.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The more trendy you look in a photo today, the more silly you'll look in that photo later.
  • your_future_ex_wife
    your_future_ex_wife Posts: 4,278 Member
    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
  • This_far
    This_far 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.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You can’t snap your fingers inside your mouth.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    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.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If picking up a penny takes 2 seconds then hypothetically it pays $18/hr to pick up pennies.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    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.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    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.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Slapping one side of someone’s hand is a punishment. Slapping the other side is a reward.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    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>
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Most people have never ridden in the backseat of their own car.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If you run away from the ocean you're also running towards the ocean.
  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    Cottonmouths and Water Moccasins are the same snake.
  • Nerys52
    Nerys52 Posts: 86 Member
    India housewives hold 11% of the world's gold.
  • echmain3
    echmain3 Posts: 231 Member
    There are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are grains of sand on all the world’s beaches.
  • echmain3
    echmain3 Posts: 231 Member
    TV laugh tracks were recorded in the earliest days of television.

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

  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Nerys52 wrote: »
    India housewives hold 11% of the world's gold.

    16,720 metric tons.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    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.
  • echmain3
    echmain3 Posts: 231 Member
    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)
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
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