Useless Fact of The Day

In September 1993, a burgular in Germany returned a violin he had stolen with a note to the owner complaining that it was out of tune. The violin was a 300 year old antique that was actually worth $80,000.

Today in 1982, the first episode of Knight Rider came on starring David Hasselhoff.

(Talk about useless information!)

The term "raining cats and dogs" originated in European cities that had lots of stray cats and dogs plus very narrow streets. After a heavy rain, drowned cats and dogs would litter the streets.

Avogadro's number is 6.022 and a bunch more numbers then multiplied by 10 to the 23rd power. Almost 200 hundred years ago, he figured out that 12 grams of carbon has that many atoms.

Definitely useless. To most anyway.

lol, btw did u kno dat public school gets more jewish holiday time off dan a actual jeish school!!!! lol btw im not jewish (yet again another useless thing u didnt need to kno)

I can hardly wait for the next useless fact. So far, they've been both interesting and funny. Avogadro's number represents a mole, which is some kind of standard measure that chemists use for calculating .... well, for calculating chemical stuff.

wow,rightly you say,totally unless and unnecessary...

Don't know how funny or useless this fact is, but the popular childrens ryme, "Ring around the rosie" refers to London's Bubonic(sp) plauge of the 1300s. "Ring around the rosie" refers to the rash shaped in a ring on the skin of an infected person. "Pocket full of Posies" was what people carried, bags full of fragrent flowers, from the belief that the plague came from bad smells. And "Ashes to ashes" was the cremation of the bodies, and "we all fall down" is what i'm assuming happen when... they fell down dead!

Not too funny, and a little disturbing.

The cockroach could still alive without head up to 9 days.
Out of 2 billion people only one gonna get to age 116.
The ducks quack not make an echo,and no one knows why.
The snail could sleep and still alive without any food up to 3 years.
If you keep your goldfish in a dark room,they color gonna be turn white.
Every month which is start with a sunday,that month is always got a Friday 13.
The humans brain could hold about 1164153 gigabyte information.
Pablo Picasso was born dead,but his uncle bring back to live with a smoke of cigar.

I guess i was boring
I was try to translate those facts to english,so if any of those doesn't make sense,that cause of my english

Good thread andrea, You have a good thing going here. Everyone lose useless info. I know I do even though I will never have a use for it. Hey Its good conversation stuff with others. If you like to mingle that is. lol

Hi Wooex, Your post was interesting and funny.Im sure everyone understands what they were about. I shall spruce it up a bit and retranslate it for you incase some did not know what you were getting at. English in school was never my strong point either. So I think im just as bad at times.lol

wooex wrote:

The cockroach could still alive without head up to 9 days.

The Cockroach can stay alive up to 9 days without a head.

Out of 2 billion people only one gonna get to age 116.

One out of Two billion people will live to the age of 116.

The ducks quack not make an echo,and no one knows why.

A Ducks quack does not produce an echo and no one knows why.

The snail could sleep and still alive without any food up to 3 years.

The snail can sleep and stay alive without food for 3 years.

If you keep your goldfish in a dark room,they color gonna be turn white.

If you keep your goldfish in a dark room, they start to turn white.

Every month which is start with a sunday,that month is always got a Friday 13.

Every month that starts on a sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

The humans brain could hold about 1164153 gigabyte information.

Pablo Picasso was born dead,but his uncle bring back to live with a smoke of cigar.

Pablo Picasso was born dead. His Uncle brought him back to life with the smoke from a cigar.

I especially like the thing about how many gigglebytes or bits are in the brain of a humus bean. Probably, very few of them get used.

And speaking of flowers in your pocket, as late as the 1920s and 1930s, people in the USA wore smelly asafoetida bags to keep away diseases. My dad, who had to wear one to school, pronounced it: AS-O-FIN-I-TY. It was a package of herbs, including garlic.

For tomorrow's UFOTD, do you know who Millie Small is?

On average, most humans use only about 10 percent of their brain; and that's just the brilliant people like Newton. Although Einstein was considered a genius, he only used approximately 13 percent of the brain's full potential. So if we unlocked the full potential of our brain, maybe we would have psychic powers. Oooooooh

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

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

I read that the thing about using ten percent of your brain applies only to the conscious part. Even while you sleep, the subconscious brain is active.

And now for Millie Small. She's a little lady from Jamaica, and she has a pretty amazing voice. In the early 60s she recorded a song called My Boy Lollipop. It was her only American hit tune, but she was very popular in in Europe. If you get a chance, listen to the song.

did u kno 2+2+ fish?

De ja vu

De ja vu
Many people think it is a sort of precognotion, Where you have this stong feeling that this has happened before. No matter how long the phenomenon lasts, there is an overwhelming feeling of familiarity.
Some researchers believe that it is actually a miscommunication between the short term memory and long term memory... where the event as it is occourring is being stored to memory before the concious mind is aware of it. Kind of like your mind skipping a beat or a second so to speak. So baaically if your consious mind were running at a one second lag, every second that actually passed would seem like it already happened.

Which brings me to another thing that i don't know the answer to... Do we all vissually percieve things the same way? (with exception to the vissually impared such as the color blind)For instance, the color colbalt blue, is it as blue to others as it is to me? Colbalt blue is my favorite color by the way... Hey guess thats my useless fact of the day.

Interesting, my favorite color is coeruleum blue. I've got another one.

The heaviest gold nugget ever found weighed 200 pounds.

I like that de ja vu feeling!I read that somewhere one guy have this feeling continuously!That must be bad tho!

I was think about that too,maybe other people see things a little bit different,like you said "colors".
In my case yes, cause i got a little "color blindness".
When i told this my friends,they were like-So you cannot see colors?
Yes i can see every color like you,but there is a test for that where i was faild.
I gonna attach a picture you will know what i mean
This is how the test pictures looks like and you should see the number in that pics.Now i have no any idea what is the number in this pics i can't read at all.

You cant see the color green? Happy im not color blind lol. the number is 5 by the way.

So I just had to put my two cents into this one since I am a fount of useless knowledge:

Regarding older park statues where the person is on horseback:
1) If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle
2) If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
3) If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes

Not sure if that one is still true of statues, but for the really old statues, this was the rule of thumb.

Long Ago when clans wanted to get rid of their unwanted citizens without killing them, they would burn their houses down. This sparked (pun intended) the expression "To Get Fired."

Since we're into popular expressions, "Rule of Thumb" comes from an old British law that stated a man is permitted to beat his wife with a stick so long as the diameter of the stick does not exceed that of his thumb. Pretty disgusting, huh

The thing about color perception brings up an ancient conundrum. All of your senses are connected to your brain, which then interprets electrical inputs and creates experiences. In fact, nothing exists outside your brain. More to the point, there is no way to prove that anything exists outside your perception. Of course we assume that things exist outside of a person's brain, but it's difficult to prove. It's called the egocentric dilemma.

There was a unit of measure that was occassionally used in the 1700's in land surveying called a "smoke". It is the distance traveled by a horse at a moderate pace in the time it takes to smoke one pipe full of tobacco. Obviously, that distance is a little harder to reproduce than the foot or meter. Makes my job of surveying a little tough at times.

John, you just blew my mind. I had never really thought of that before. For all I know I am the only person that really exists. The rest of you are just figments of my imagination. LOL.

If you think about the egocentric dilemma too much, it can drive a person crazy. Just imagine, you may be the only person in the world, and maybe you're sitting in a dark room with no windows and no sensory inputs. Your mind could have invented the entire universe and it would be exactly as you perceive it now.

The dilemma does have a solution of sorts.

-How many times you can fold a letter size
/11" x 8½"/paper in half?
-7!
-Let me know if you can do more,but i think you cant
-i did it 6 times

You can only fold it seven times. I saw it on Mythbusters.

John, what is this solution to the dilemma you are hinting at? Or are you trying to get me to think about it really hard and go crazy?

Wow that's creepy to know. I hope the egocentric dilemma isn't true. I might go crazy as you said!

Lol... i think if it were true... then as in the movie "The Matrix" we should be able to attain the ability to make our lives exactly as we want it, but i suppose since we only have limited use of our brains, we are stuck in constant REM. And everything is just a dream, and as far as we know, we are being controlled by aliens... Um i'm seriously kidding! lol.

Hey speaking of REM (the rapid eye movent dream state, not the music group) has anyone ever had a dream in which they were dreaming, and knew in your dream's dream that is was, but in your actual dream, you had no idea? Hmm... maybe its just me surpassing crazy...lol!