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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Tinkerbell said:
If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball !

(What I want to know is - who tested this out ??)
Another one where the testing is in question is Kittensoft toilet paper. I would like to see the report on the double-blind comparison test, and wouldn't the claws give it away?
 

Tinkerbell

Well-Known Forumite
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
 

Wookie

Official Forum Linker
According to QI, at sea level the distance to the horizon in miles is apparently the square root of one and a half times your height in feet.
I'm not sure I believe that...
 

Toble

Well-Known Forumite
Startlingly obvious when you think about it, but the "North" pole of the magnet is a compass is actually a "South" pole.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Toble said:
Startlingly obvious when you think about it, but the "North" pole of the magnet is a compass is actually a "South" pole.
Or is the North pole of a compass magnet North and the Earth's North Magnetic Pole actually a South pole in the Northern hemisphere? I think we should be told.
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
You're right according to Wikipedia:

Wikipedia said:
Polarity

In physics, all magnets have two poles that are distinguished by the direction of the magnetic flux. In principle these poles could be labelled in any way; for example, as "+" and "−", or "A" and "B". However, based on the early use of magnets in compasses they were named the "north pole" (or more explicitly "north-seeking pole"), "N", and the "south pole" (or "south-seeking pole"), "S", with the north pole being the pole that pointed north (i.e. the one attracted to the Earth's North Magnetic Pole). Because opposite poles attract, the Earth's North Magnetic Pole is therefore, by this definition, physically a magnetic south pole.Conversely, the Earth's South Magnetic Pole is physically a magnetic north pole.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
That's what I've always believed and I also checked Wikipedia after I posted, just in case. I'm glad you posted that bit as Basil did mildly chastise me for such semi-plagiaristic activities recently.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
...fair enough. You took most of the flak - and someone took the point that I gave you when you were welcomed in such a tardy manner. I wonder who it was?
 

Mr X

Well-Known Forumite
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Uses every letter in the alphabet.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
The real fun is waking up late for work and realising you gotta fold the thing back into your head first. The amount of times I've still been pissed and used the ironing board cover instead, and once even the iron itself.
 

Wookie

Official Forum Linker
Mr X said:
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Uses every letter in the alphabet.
I prefer "TV quiz jock, Mr Phd., bags few lynx" myself. Lacks the repetition...
 
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