Useless Fact of the Day

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Adult coyotes can run at 35 to 43 mph but roadrunners can only reach speeds of 20 mph.

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  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    It's always in the last place you looked for it
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    "Rock" band Iron Maiden went to a restaurant after a 1984 concert in Poland. The Maidens saw a wedding inside; after a chat, they took the wedding band's instruments and began playing for the night. Guests had no idea until the groom saw that his wedding band transformed into Iron Maiden.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    A wreckless driver is a safe driver.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The iconic Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 was created by only 9 people.... and 8 of them had never once worked on a video game before.
  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    edited August 2019
    cee134 wrote: »
    This_far wrote: »
    Ligers and Tigons and Pizzlies, oh my.

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    Fact: I have actually seen a liger at a zoo for a field trip when I was middle school. Our tour guide said the zoo did not expect them to mate and that they only had the lion and tiger in the same cage temporarily until another spot opened up for one of them. I wonder if that was one of the first ligers?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The practice of playing music for callers on hold began with a faulty phone line connection. A loose wire touching the steel frame of an office building caused it to act as a giant radio receiver, allowing callers to hear music from local radio stations while they waited on hold.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    It took the Mythbusters team two years to find a company that would make lead foil thin enough for a lead balloon.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    In 2017, Frankfurt police found a car belonging to a 76 year old man who had forgotten where he had parked it 20 years earlier.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    "A Roomba is collecting dust under the sofa" has two opposite meanings.
  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    On an average day, 43 Roombas will start a mission every minute.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Moonlight is 100% solar powered.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    No one looks at your nose more than yourself.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You're getting closer to the next moment you accidentally drop your phone.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    edited August 2019
    I am not bilingual
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You can pause an hourglass by laying it on its side.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Buying erasers is literally paying for your mistakes.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited August 2019
    Spongebob was 3-dimensional,therefore he actually had cube pants. Doodlebob was 2D and therefore had Squarepants.
  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 972 Member
    If one assumes the axiom of choice, it is possible to cut a ball up into 5 chunks, reassemble the chunks, and get two balls if the same size as the original.