Provide a useless fact that most people won't know

Does that apply to midgets, too?

Lol try again

And hot water freezes faster than cold water.

forty

created homo sapiens.

Artists used to make paint pigment from ground up Egyptian mummies -- known as mummy yellow.

Bigfoot is related to UFO.

[link to www.cryptomundo.com]

The Philippine flag is Masonic, and the only national flag that is flown upside down in times of war.

OK comes from world war 2 when American soldiers arranged to meet
a French girl at the port, on the quay.
So his buddies would say he's on the quay..
Au quai pronounced OK

There's more meat under the earth than on top.

nice!

i don't believe this -- OK is older than that

A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.

cool!

Thanks!! I've waited all my life to actually USE that factoid (especially to be able to use it while people still REMEMBERED who Hoagy Carmichael was!!)

This is a really FUN thread! 5 stars, OP!!

Long, thick eyelashes is not a genetic trait, it's a sign of allergies.

And for the conspiracy theorists:

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford.
Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran
and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

Read more at [link to www.omg-facts.com]

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A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

In Oklahoma it is only legal to have sex in the missionary position and only for the purpose of procreation.
A lot of law breakers in Oklahoma.

Muammar Ghaddafi was eligible for Israeli citizenship and protection from extradition under Israel's "Law of Return".

His maternal grandmother was Jewish. She converted in order to marry a Moslem sheikh after her first (Jewish)husband divorced her.

Although her conversion was voluntary the Israelis would treat it as a conversion under duress because it occurred in Libya.

If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Flamingos are pink due to the shrimp they consume.

The first superconductor discovered was Mercury, when chilled with liquid Helium.

The ancient Japanese would wipe their anuses with a kusobera - A wooden stick who's name literally meant "shit spatula."


Saliva can act as a painkiller 6 times more powerful than morphine.

bullshit!

and i just realised cos you knew you'd have me, like a tit, in front of my computer, actually fucking doing it!!

Had to try as well
It's true for me though, maybe 2 cm difference.

The first use of OK comes from a literary work of 1792 by an American author who's continual optimism led to his initials being used to mean everything is fine.
He was Obadiah Kelley.

Jesus isn't real.

True.

The plastic ends on shoelaces are called aglets.
Now that is a totally useless fact.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Margarine is only one molecule away from being plastic.