Useless Fact of the Day

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  • Exodus_
    Exodus_ Posts: 6 Member
    Zero is the only number that can't be represented in Roman numerals
  • echmain3
    echmain3 Posts: 231 Member
    The Mall of America (in Minnesota) has no heating system.

    It relies on skylights, latent heat from lights and machinery, and body heat from all the shoppers.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    edited May 2019
    Exodus_ wrote: »
    Zero is the only number positive integer that can't be represented in Roman numerals

    @Exodus_ - Fixed it for you
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    "700 million people are smarter than you." may sound like an insult, but it would put you at the 90th percentile.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The Blue Whale is the largest animal ever to exist and we named it based on its color.
  • echmain3
    echmain3 Posts: 231 Member
    All pieces of Trix cereal are the same flavor.

    They are just different colors.
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    Elephants only have 2 knees and not, as is the popular belief, 4
  • Ssssss666666
    Ssssss666666 Posts: 560 Member
    You can't be reasonable with an unreasonable person
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    It is difficult to argue with someone intelligent , it is darn near impossible to argue with someone stupid
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    In 6 months and 21 days the 20's will begin.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Architect Edmund Bacon (Kevin Bacon's dad) illegally skateboarded across Philadelphia's LOVE Park, the plaza he helped design, to protest the city's skateboard ban.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    People still say "sounds good" over text.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    It would take 10 days to become a millionaire if you earned $100,000 a day. It would take 27 years to become a billionaire.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Damage to your frontal lobe can lead to a condition called Witzelsucht: the urge to make puns and jokes at inappropriate times.
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Damage to your frontal lobe can lead to a condition called Witzelsucht: the urge to make puns and jokes at inappropriate times.

    Kind of a witty tourettes? I get that urge A LOT!

    Australia is wider than the moon

  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Shrek was made in 2001.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If Pinocchio's nose grows every time he says something false, then Pinocchio can test any hypothesis and instantly know if it is true or not.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    Traditional dial tone was a 48 volt DC current.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    "Mountain Dew" was originally slang for mountain-brewed moonshine. And the soda was originally sold as a whiskey chaser.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    There are some babies in world that are born in the exact same moment but have different birthdays.
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  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    In traditional shipwrighting wooden ships would be intentionally sunk, usually loaded down with ballast at the lowest tide of the month. 28 days later they would be refloated. The wood would swell during that month tightly sealing the seams between the planks.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You just read this sentence.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    On the walls of the Chauvet caves of France are paintings of Rhinos, horses, lions, bears and other animals. They were carbon dated to 32000 BC. On the floor, over 150 ft from the entrance, are footprints of humans of all ages and their dogs. It's the oldest direct proof of domestication . Kind of cool to think that people carrying torches brought their children and dogs to check out graffiti 34 millennium ago.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    California is the nearest state to Hawaii, but Hawaii is almost the furthest state from California.
  • Ssssss666666
    Ssssss666666 Posts: 560 Member
    All the clocks on pulp fiction are stuck on 4.20
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    California is the nearest state to Hawaii, but Hawaii is almost the furthest state from California.

    Heard an interesting California fact that surprised me. When you drive from LA to Reno you actually travel a little west.
  • geiznekcm
    geiznekcm Posts: 1,357 Member
    Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
  • geiznekcm
    geiznekcm Posts: 1,357 Member
    Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    According to the OED, the earliest use of the word Squee is found in 1998.

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