The Stupid Facts Thread

[Daniel]

Hi, I love facts that you dont really need but that kick ass. Put your best ones in here. And I would like it if some Moderator could sticky this.

Did you know that...

... a Ducks quack is the only sound in the world wich doesnt make an ecco?

... there is no definition of a Planet?

... we only use 10% of our brain, and EInstein suposidely used 15% of his?


Not my three best ones, but I'll find better ones!

 

[Jostyrostelli]

Did you know....

Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

A chicken is 75% water.

A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day.

38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday.

41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.

A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.

An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose.

1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.

3% of pet owners give Valentine's gifts to their pets on Valentine's Day.

45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

70% of the poor people in the world are female.

According to a study by the nation's largest auto insurer, most accidents occur between 3 and 6 p.m. on Friday.

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.

Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

 

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

Did you know....
45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

What!?!? :?

If Bill Gates see a $100 dollar bill on the sidewalk, it isn't worth his time to pick it up.

 

[Daniel]

Awesome facts Jos. "45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star."
Now thats scary! :shock:

 

[Jostyrostelli]

Did you know....
45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

What!?!? :?

If Bill Gates see a $100 dollar bill on the sidewalk, it isn't worth his time to pick it up.

Nah I didn't make them up myself, I got them of some sites, don't know which I got that from, I had a few saved in Word :lol:

 

[mmap]

Re: The Stupid Facts Thread

... we only use 10% of our brain, and EInstein suposidely used 15% of his?

I love useless facts as well so I second the stickying of this thread!

However the above mentioned "fact" is not true. There is no 100% measure to set that against, so it's a myth... The brain is already using aprox 80% of the bodys energy so there really is no way to use it more

But did you know that the Earth has 5 moons?

 

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

A short list of Top Fuel dragster facts:

* The 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower than the first 8 rows at Daytona.

* Under full throttle, a the engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 but with 4 times the energy volume.

* The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.

* Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.

* Dual electronic magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.

* At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.

* Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the exhaust pipes at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.

* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression-plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting of its fuel flow.

* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or blow the block in half.

* The engines twist the crank (torsionally) so far (20 degrees in the big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to synchronization with the pistons.

* To exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. But in reaching 250 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is closer to 8G's.

* Drivers must shut off before the finish line, or even dual parachutes will not stop the car.

* If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second. Bear in mind here that the engine behind all this Herculean output is a modified offshoot of a common American big-block V-8

 

[MXM]

The only guy in ZZ Top without a beard is Frank Beard

If you shave a polar bear, you will find out it has a black skin (you're also gonna die in pain)

Elephans are only animals unable to jump

 

[Jostyrostelli]

Did you know that....

Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs.

Mules have one horse and one donkey for a parent.

A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.

A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of pollution.

Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.

German immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to America.

The name Santa Claus came from Saint Nicholas who was a bishop in the town of Myra, and was known to be very nice to children.
(We have Sint Nicolaas or Sinterklaas here in Holland)

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

The Bible was written by over 40 authors over a period of 1500 years.

A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet.

A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted.

In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.

In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.

In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter.

In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.

A rape is reported every six minutes in the United States.

In Alabama, it is against the law to wear a fake mustache that could cause laughter in the church.

Elmo, a puppet from the children's television show "Sesame Street," testified on April 23,2002 during a House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. He was testifying in favour of school music education. He is the first puppet in history to testify on Capitol Hill.

There is a law in the state of Idaho that does not permit one citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that is heavier than 50 pounds.

A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.

Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon." Buzz was the second man to step onto the Moon in 1969.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

People who studies laughter are called a "gelotologists."

The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men.

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.

 

[Renesis]

n Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter.

Yep, that's to make it look meh cause it's white and encourage people to buy good 'ol butter which we produce a lot.

but why is this stickied btw?

 

[Daniel]

n Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter.

Yep, that's to make it look meh cause it's white and encourage people to buy good 'ol butter which we produce a lot.

but why is this stickied btw?

Because its great fun to read for everyone. I wonder why you didnt come up with this thread Jostyrostelli! :lol:

There is a state in America ( Think its lousianna) wich forbids over or underweight people to run buy main roads, as it can distract drivers. :lol:

 

[hanasand]

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

This was true until two years ago I think. The ban has been removed...

 

[justin syder]

the only one i can think of...

in my home state, New York, it is illegal to talk in an elevator (lift). quite silly :lol:

 

[hanasand]

Some facts from me:

- The biggest penis in the world of mammals belongs to the blue-whale, measuring up to 5 metres. (but the biggest penis of all animals compared to it's own size belongs to a roughly 25cm long bird, which has an extractable penis of almost 2 metres)

- A particle has been accelerated to move faster than the speed of light, in Denmark.

- 15% of the Scandinavian people (Norway, Sweden, Denmark + Iceland & Finland?) can not get AIDS/HIV at all. They are resistent from birth.

- If you could fly (not in an aircraft, just like superman) faster than the speed of light and would watch down at your feet you wouldn't see them, but only yourself a distance behind where you actually are located.

- A pilot in an airplane breaking the sound-barrier doesn't hear the wellknown supersonic boom at all, as he is moving from the sound.

- A man in china knows over 300 of the desimals of Pi (3,14...)

- Women are better suited to be fighter-pilots than men as their hearts are closer to their brain, therefore they can withstain more G-forces than a man. But then again we have more muscles, so we can more easily force the blood into our heads with them...


- Sylvester Stallone once starred in a pornomovie > http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0065904/combined

- Disney has produced a film called "The story of menstruation" and has also made a Donald Duck propaganda feature where Donald dreams that he is a nazi (saying Heil Hitler several times) *I have this Donald Duck film, it's really funny

- George W. Bush (when governor in Texas) made June 10th the official "Jesus-day"

- Former President George Bush wrote that trying to eliminate Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War in 1991 would have "incurred incalculable human and political costs." (haha, that's so ironic)

- Starbucks recently had to pull an advertisement because it reminded people of the 9/11 attacks. Here it is:

- There is a place in Austria called: Fucking

- The Marlboro man of the 70's (Darrell Winfield) recently died of lung cancer...

- Harry S. Trumans middle-name was really just the letter S

- There have been found remains of a shark 10 times the size of the great white shark.

- Norway is together with Iran the only country in the world to have a religious leader as a president (our is a former priest, we'll get rid of him a.s.a.p as no one voted for him, it's complicated)

- A salmon can swim in 50 km/h

- During the WWII the germans almost made it in creating an atomic bomb, but when transporting the needed heavy-water from Norway to Germany it was sunk when local-saboteurs blew up the boat it was carried in on a freshwater lake, and the heavyeater containers are still there, with the heavywater intact inside.

 

[logo]

I think the Einstein bit is wrong, I think on a tv show they said normal/smart people use 3% of their brain and Einstein used 13%. I might be wrong though,

 

[hanasand]

smart infants use 3% perhaps

 

[Daniel]

:lol: :lol: What about embryos?

George W. Bush once said that "Poor man are either lazy or non christian"

 

[MXM]

A particle has been accelerated to move faster than the speed of light, in Denmark.

Now that's one weird "fact". Source please? (and not some yellow-press)

About Einstein, rememberd this one:
Last words of Einstein remain unknown, because his nurse didn't speak German.

 

[Daniel]

A particle has been accelerated to move faster than the speed of light, in Denmark.

Now that's one weird "fact". Source please? (and not some yellow-press)

About Einstein, rememberd this one:
Last words of Einstein remain unknown, because his nurse didn't speak German.

Its a fact. I've read the same article as Hanasand in a Norwegian science magazine. (www.illvit.no)

That Einstein fact is very annoying me!

 

[MXM]

^ Ok, you cannot say the particle was faster than speed of light, because the fact is that nothing can be faster than speed of light. And talking about Einstein, his special theory of relativity relies on that (and theory has been proven to be working).
So by saying it's a fact, you deny a major part of physics. It just conflicts with common sense They might THINK particle was moving faster, they might have some theories about it, but no way it's a fact. That would be the biggest scientific discovery of century.

P.S. Your link isn't working. But I wouldn't probably understant anything anyway