Useless Facts,,,just for fun, post 'em

[Rockets Revenge 0]

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

 

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

[nd1baby 0]

Smell the Glove was an album by Spinal Tap which featured a greased, naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck and a leash, and a man's arm extended out...holding on to the leash and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it.

[ND3 0]

If Bill Gates drops a $100 bill, it is literally not worth his time to pick it up

 

Spoken like a true non-billionare

[Rockets Revenge 0]

Smell the Glove was an album by Spinal Tap which featured a greased, naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck and a leash, and a man's arm extended out...holding on to the leash and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it.

 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1i2g0yqi71qzs1n8o1_400.jpg

[Rockets Revenge 0]

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

[SpeedsterX 652]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1i2g0yqi71qzs1n8o1_400.jpg

 

I thought Fran Drescher banned this image!

[DREWGOOSE 1]

For the life of me, I can't think of any now. If you ask my gf though I am always full of them, as least that seems to be her reaction when I tell her things.

[nd1baby 0]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1i2g0yqi71qzs1n8o1_400.jpg

 

That could be the ultimate avatar.

[SpeedsterX 652]

There is a 50,000 word novel that does not use the letter “E”.

[Rockets Revenge 0]

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

 

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

[Rockets Revenge 0]

Golden Tate (WR, Tennessee State) was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in round 5 (#120) of the 1984 NFL Draft.

[SpeedsterX 652]

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

 

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

 

Not good! I'm a lefty!

 

New fact: It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

[nd1baby 0]

Shrapnel was really a guy's name.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Shrapnel

[SpeedsterX 652]

Almonds are members of the peach family.

 

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

 

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

 

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

 

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

 

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie" (Thus the name of the Don McLean song).

 

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

[REMND 0]

The name 'Wendy' first appeared in a book called Peter Pan.

[SpeedsterX 652]

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a single cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested and half caused cancer in rats.

[davislove 0]

I can't say the word "Loyola". I wind up saying "Loy yola"

[piratey 6]

My contribution to this thread

http://i.imgur.com/2alXPQI.gif

[SpeedsterX 652]

Out of all that piratey that struck me is the relatively short time Chrome web browser surpassed Firefox! Wow!

 

My addition for the day.

 

 

• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
  
• Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
  

[Unsociable 0]

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

 

is actually a grammatically correct sentence...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo