Useless Fact of the Day

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  • 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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  • 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: 2,508 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: 2,508 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.