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[Schrödinger's cat]

"Stressed" spelled backwards is "Desserts"

 

[Gavin Stevens]

Sometimes when I poop my finger goes all the way through the paper.

And sometimes, just sometimes, I have a magic poo. I wipe and there's nothing there. HOW.

 

[ZeroZeroQuatre]

The longest word you can type with your left hand only is "stewardess".

 

[Tesseract]

when you die, reality ends

 

[Thabass]

The Rock's WWE theme song is actually a heavily remixed version of his second theme song entitled: "Destiny".

It's been the same since 1997, just remixed with every iteration.


- Destiny Second Theme (3rd Iteration)

- Electrifying (Current WWE theme)

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Bed bugs reproduce by the male using its dick to stab the female through the abdomen. Female bed bugs actually have a genital tract that is used for laying fertilized eggs, but for whatever reason they don't use it for mating and instead the male has evolved a spiky claw penis, and the female has evolved organs at different points in the abdomen that carry injected semen to the ovaries.

We have a winner for most useless fact!

 

[TDiddyLive]

The longest word you can type with your left hand only is "stewardess".

What if you make it plural? Stewardesses is longer by two letters.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Anytime a store says "We are contributing $1,000,000 to charity", the amount of money they actually donate is close to zero.

What they do is add up all the donations customers toss in the donation coin box at checkout, and add up various fees suppliers pay for. Retailers will charge suppliers $1,000s for things like golf event schmoozing, trade shows, charity dinner galas, extra fees to be part of a supermarket's charity drive (ie. put your company logo on a poster).

Some buyers at retailer HQ have no shame too. They will literally ask an account manager if the company will donate to the retailer's charity. The people at the retailer's HQ get measured on how much charity funds they scoop up from suppliers.

Add it all up, and really all they did was compile funds from you and the suppliers and claim "it comes from them".

How is this useless?

 

[Hulk_Smash]

The longest book of the Bible is Isaiah.
The shortest book is 2nd John.
The book with the most chapters is Psalms.
The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
The shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35. "Jesus wept."
The oldest written book of the Bible is Job. (It predates Genesis as a WRITTEN work, even if not chronologically the oldest.)
The words of Jesus weren't always written in red. That edition came about in 1899 by editor Louis Kopsch.

Originally, neither the Old Testament (written in Hebrew and Aramaic) nor the New Testament (written in Greek) had vowel marking, lower case letters, punctuation, or spaces between words and sentences. SOYOULITERALLYHADTOREADITLIKETHIS All that other stuff was added later. Verse and chapter divisions were also added later.

I knew all of this from memory. Thanks seminary education!

 

[DESTROYA]

A single human male produces enough sperm in two weeks to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.

i bet I can do that in less time.

 

[phisheep]

Speaking of long and short books, you may remember that the Readers' Digest used to do "Condensed Books" (maybe they still do), popular works, usually fiction, edited down to a standard size.

Well, all except one. The Readers Digest Condensed Book of Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" - which was a short book to start with - was actually three letters longer than the original.

The difference came in the bit where Jonathan is summoned before the Council, which meant, for a seagull, either great shame or great honor. The Digest version read dishonor, which kind of ruined the small amount of suspense.

 

[Loki]

Blew my mind years ago when I learned this:

We also confront the serious challenge of DNA packaging. Each human cell contains approximately 2 meters of DNA if stretched end-to-end; yet the nucleus of a human cell, which contains the DNA, is only about 6 μm in diameter. This is geometrically equivalent to packing 40 km (24 miles) of extremely fine thread into a tennis ball!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26834/

 

[Anki]

A lot of useful facts in this thread. I am not even kidding.

 

[IntentionalPun]

The dolphin vagina has 73 independent muscles capable of precisely stimulating or crushing whoever enters.

 

[haxan7]

A man can't get pregnant in his butt

 

[Master Of Illusion]

Communism is bullshit.

 

[Ovek]

Humans share about 60% of the same DNA as a banana.

 

[Blade2.0]

The longest book of the Bible is Isaiah.
The shortest book is 2nd John.
The book with the most chapters is Psalms.
The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
The shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35. "Jesus wept."
The oldest written book of the Bible is Job. (It predates Genesis as a WRITTEN work, even if not chronologically the oldest.)
The words of Jesus weren't always written in red. That edition came about in 1899 by editor Louis Kopsch.

Originally, neither the Old Testament (written in Hebrew and Aramaic) nor the New Testament (written in Greek) had vowel marking, lower case letters, punctuation, or spaces between words and sentences. SOYOULITERALLYHADTOREADITLIKETHIS All that other stuff was added later. Verse and chapter divisions were also added later.

I knew all of this from memory. Thanks seminary education!

This is useless because the Bible is useless

 

[Tesseract]

This is useless because the Bible is useless

no

 

[Saralala]

The blue whale is the largest animal ever in earth.

 

[Weilthain]

Humans share about 60% of the same DNA as a banana.

That's why dna is probably a load of shit

 

[Virex]

This is useless because the Bible is useless

Show us your muscles

 

[Blade2.0]

no

Fine, makes a good doorstop.

 

[Tesseract]

Fine, makes a good doorstop.

it's probably the most important book ever written, the hyperlinks alone are astounding

 

[Blade2.0]

it's probably the most important book ever written, the hyperlinks alone are astounding

Doesn't mean it's useful

 

[Hulk_Smash]

This is useless because the Bible is useless

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

so funny so original. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

[Blade2.0]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

so funny so original. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Glad I could make you laugh

 

[intbal]

The average person will swallow 8 spiders in their sleep over the course of a lifetime.

 

[gundalf]

HAL Labs comes before IBM.

 

[Tesseract]

The average person will swallow 8 spiders in their sleep over the course of a lifetime.

nom, nom, nom

gains while i sleep, fuck yeah

 

[Starfield]

It is completely useless to know useless facts other than trying to impress someone that you know about a useless fact which in fact makes it not useless anymore to know useless facts.

 

[Weilthain]

The average person will swallow 8 spiders in their sleep over the course of a lifetime.

That's a lie someone made up.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

The US Cent has the words "Mind your Business" on them.

The British Pound Notes effectively state that you merely promise to pay the bearer a sum, which technically means you are not paying the bearer.

At the equator, the water running down a plug hole goes straight down and doesn't spiral clockwise/anti-clockwise.

Romans invented Taxation.

The Mongolians were the largest Empire ever which was ran by a Family of Khans.

It is illegal to maturbate in Indonesia. The sentence is Death. Speaking of which...

SEGA means to Masturbate in Italian.

Dogs eat grass to throw up.

It is illegal to be drunk in a pub in the UK.

A Pregnant woman in the UK is allowed to Pee into a Policemen's hat.

It is legal to shoot a Scotman with an Arrow in a kneeling position on a Sunday (also UK).

A certain culture drink Cow's Blood as a Medicine whilst the Cow is alive and okay with is. (Forgot the tribe name)


Sperm Whales can emit 500 litres of Sperm into the sea (only 10% goes into the female), which explains the Sea's salty taste if you consider that there are 10,000 to 100,000 of these animals.

 

[Birdo]

Humans are the only animals with chins.

 

[John Day]

Keep this shit coming cause drunk this all makes sense and enlightens the mind and soul!

 

[Gamerguy84]

Humans produce about 6 pounds of poop a week.

Since people are talking about blue whales. Blue whales average penis size is 7 foot long.

 

[haxan7]

Communism is bullshit.

This is a useful fact

 

[IntentionalPun]

If you sneeze when cumming you are more likely to have a black child.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Mexico is pioneer in the interpretation of the electrocardiogram (EKG) worldwide

 

[CyberPanda]

Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.

 

[bitbydeath]

Australians are allowed by law to call the prime minister a cunt.

 

[DavidGzz]

nom, nom, nom

gains while i sleep, fuck yeah

Yep, insects are high in protons bby

 

[Weilthain]

Humans are the only animals with chins.

So many lies about animals in this thread.

my dog has a chin, can look up etc

 

[womfalcs3]

"Stressed" spelled backwards is "Desserts"

Woah. That's not useless. It completely changed my perception of things.

 

[Nymphae]

Someone told me the other day that he heard or read an interview or something with the dude who designed the N-Gage, where it was discovered that the guy apparently designed it as a joke to be a goatse image. I can never unsee this.

 

[TylersProphecy4.0]

You can fit infinite within a finite space.

If human beings breathed nitrogen instead of oxygen, we could live past 300 years old due to how much more slowly nitrogen breaks down cells.

Anyone who can digest dairy is considered a mutant.

Before 200 years ago, beds used to have people sitting up like a chair instead of laying in them.

During the production of Barry Lyndon, kubrick demanded every piece of the set be era appropriate, down to buttons made out of whale bone.

The Smithsonian Institute began not as a museum of natural history, but as a place to showcase possible artifacts from Hollow Earth. They in fact still house these artifacts but keep them closed off in unused sections at this point. They also still accept hollow earth "artifacts" for submission.

Denzel Washington has fake teeth.

I'd say a majority of my knowledge, while entertaining to an extent, is useless.
I could go all day, folks!!!

 

[EviLore]

Before 200 years ago, beds used to have people sitting up like a chair instead of laying in them.

Ancient Roman beds were similar to today's beds:

Ancient Egyptian beds were also similar, other than a raised headrest device:

 

[TylersProphecy4.0]

Ancient Roman beds were similar to today's beds:

Ancient Egyptian beds were also similar, other than a raised headrest device:

Hmmmmmm. Well I know at least 150ish years back, during civil war times, people used weird sitting beds. Like, half the length, and you sit up while sleeping. I figured it was a way to save real estate inside of small homes lol. They had one set up in Licoln's old apartment, before he became president. My history teacher said all beds before a certain point were like that.

Clearly, my teacher was full of shit. Thank you for the knowledge so I dont keep spouting that nonsense.

 

[TylersProphecy4.0]

Listerine was originally used as a hair regrowth product.

 

[TylersProphecy4.0]

Super glue was made when people tried and failed to make cheap sniper scopes. The substance, when hardened, was too cloudy to see through, yet was extremely tacky.

The toothbrush, machine gun and long form novel were all invented in prison.