Useless Facts Thread.

[Zalissa]

If you lie down long enough, you'll fall asleep.

[Zalissa]

A whales penis is called a dork.

[Lorainne/Bridlington]

Only 20.95% of the air one inhales under normal circumstances is oxygen.

[Gor'Thrak Frosthowl]

More people die each year from falling coconuts than from shark attacks.

[Zalissa]

If you cough really hard then punch yourself in the nuts, you don't feel the pain.

[Lavian]

The world record for constipation is 102 days.

A leopard can carry twice its body weight up a tree.

The only species that can get Leprosy are Humans and Armadillos.

Elvis never performed an encore.

The stegosaurus is as ancient to the triceratops as the triceratops is to us.

You can fit inside a blue whale's penis.

The animal with the most human-like vagina is the goat.

Turtles can breath underwater through their arse

A questionable or false fact is called a factoid.

Elephant lungs are attached to their ribs, which allows them to hold water in their trunks without drowning themselves.

A kangaroo's genitalia is "reversed". The balls are in the front and the peepee in the back.

The little holes on top of a pen cap are there so if you choke on it, you can breathe.

Tarantulas can survive for up to two years without eating.

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream has the first recorded use of the word "swagger"

There’s a restaurant in Tokyo that let’s you have sex with a live animal, then it’s killed, cooked, and served to you and your guest.

In Hong Kong, a woman is allowed to kill her cheating husband but is required to use only her bare hands.

The Unicorn is the National Animal of Scotland.

72 muscles are used in saying the word Fuck.

The Roman Emperor Nero once forced a female serial killer to have sex with a giraffe. She died.

Each of the main characters in Spongebob Squarepants was inspired by one of the seven deadly sins. Greed (Mr Krabs) Envy (Plankton) Sloth (Patrick) Pride (Sandy) Gluttony (Gary) Lust (Spongebob) Wrath (Squidward)

The CIA spent $20 million on a cat equipped to spy on the Soviets, but it got hit by a taxi and died.

The brain named itself the brain.

[Vaell]

I can't think of any random facts off the top of my head, so I'll just do everything from personal to peculiar findings!

- One of my mates has anywhere between 3 and 5 shits a day.

- If you fill a tarantula cage with the shavings guinea pigs walk on, their 'feet' will stick to it causing it to slide down the side of the cage when it tries to climb up and what was once a disgusting, cretin of a creation becomes a rather ugly, cute one when.

- Derren Brown is gay. I know, right?!

- The same principal of "big black dick" must apply to cats, because my black cat's balls are disproportionate to its size.

[Shaelyssa]

If you cough really hard then punch yourself in the nuts, you don't feel the pain.

rofl

[Kittrina]

There’s a restaurant in Tokyo that let’s you have sex with a live animal, then it’s killed, cooked, and served to you and your guest.

Valentine's Day 2013 sorted.

If you're being shot at, jump into some water- bullets are harmless from as little as around 4 feet underwater. Even the a .50 caliber rifle is only able to penetrate about 3 ft of water.

[Lavian]

There’s a restaurant in Tokyo that let’s you have sex with a live animal, then it’s killed, cooked, and served to you and your guest.

Valentine's Day 2013 sorted.

If you're being shot at, jump into some water- bullets are harmless from as little as around 4 feet underwater. Even the a .50 caliber rifle is only able to penetrate about 3 ft of water.

I now know what to do while being shot at next time, thank you.

[Timna]

A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

[Zalissa]

There's an active law in multiple Arabic countries that a woman cannot be checked by a male doctor, but women are unable to be doctors.

Oh and a dolphin's vagina muscles are strong enough to crush human bones. Wonder how they found that out, eh?

[Shaelyssa]

There's an active law in multiple Arabic countries that a woman cannot be checked by a male doctor, but women are unable to be doctors.

stop spreading your evil lies you dirty white infidel it's not illegal at all!!!!!! we dont have doctors period anyways male or female, we dont need them anyways jew blood heals everything

[John Helsythe Amaltheria]

If you're being shot at, jump into some water- bullets are harmless from as little as around 4 feet underwater. Even the a .50 caliber rifle is only able to penetrate about 3 ft of water.

This certainly isn't useless. I actually thank you for this one, in case I ever get into trouble xD

This thread is made out of win anyways. Going to follow this one.

[Vaell]

You can fit inside a blue whale's penis.

How is this a useful fact? You can apply this to so many daily scenarios.

[Zalissa]

There's an active law in multiple Arabic countries that a woman cannot be checked by a male doctor, but women are unable to be doctors.

stop spreading your evil lies you dirty white infidel it's not illegal at all!!!!!! we dont have doctors period anyways male or female, we dont need them anyways jew blood heals everything

ROFL
the plastic bits on the ends of shoe laces are called aglets.

[Lavian]

You can fit inside a blue whale's penis.

How is this a useful fact? You can apply this to so many daily scenarios.

It isn't useful. It's a useless fact titled after the thread.

[Lexgrad]

There's an active law in multiple Arabic countries that a woman cannot be checked by a male doctor, but women are unable to be doctors.

stop spreading your evil lies you dirty white infidel it's not illegal at all!!!!!! we dont have doctors period anyways male or female, we dont need them anyways jew blood heals everything

ROFL
the plastic bits on the ends of shoe laces are called aglets.

[Dréfurion]

Churchill was a racist douchebag.

"I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken in place"
-Churchill

[Vaell]

You can fit inside a blue whale's penis.

How is this a useful fact? You can apply this to so many daily scenarios.

It isn't useful. It's a useless fact titled after the thread.

I meant useless! Which denounces the humour in my joke because I wrote the complete opposite! Shit

[Grufftoof]

the plastic bits on the ends of shoe laces are called aglets.

Seen, and raised:

The little metal spikes that you push into the bottom of candles to have them on stands (eloquently described, and only partially heading towards possible sex-puns) are called prickets or prickits.

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis (that's at least a common myth in the UK dunno about elsewhere). It's gas bubbles being burst, not your bones making the noise.

[Guest]

If you cough really hard then punch yourself in the nuts, you don't feel the pain.

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disproven bitch

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[Kittrina]

The gunk you get in the corner of your eyes is called Aqueous Humour.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1

[Guest]

eira's facts were epic

[Melnerag]

When Nikon, Patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church reformed the faith, many of the 'heretics' burned themselves out of protest.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moonlanding than the construction of the Pyramids.

One Sumerian king is listed as having died "of swallowing hot porridge."

Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev considered converting Russia to Islam, but decided not to because Islam forbids alcohol and "wine is the joy of life!"

There is only one Empire currently existing in the world - Japan.

Pope Bennedict XVI (current pope) used to preside over the Congregation for the Purity of the Doctrine of Faith, which is the modern name for the Roman Inquisition.

Photons in vacuum always travel with the speed of light, and therefore exist in perpetual present with neither past nor future.

Every fantasy/sci fi setting does not tell us where excess mass goes/where new mass comes from in cases of shapeshifting.

Charlemagne (founder of Holy Roman Empire) received a pet elephant from Harun al-Rashid, the Caliph.

The Roman Apostolic and Catholic Church is the only major Christian denomination not to participate in the Ecumenical Movement that tries to unite all western Christian churches.

If you are burned at a stake, you actually die due to suffocation from the smoke and not burning itself.

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