Useless Fact of the Day

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  • 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: 2,509 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.
  • 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.