i knew that

Useless facts, eh? Alrighty then...

- If you ripped all the veins, arteries, guts, and other tubular stuff out off your body, and conected it together in one long biological rope, it would be able to wrap around the equator a few times.

- Falling off a cliff may sting for a few hours

- Hicoughs often lead to excessive farting

- Beating people round the head with a large piece of wood doesn't tend to make them any more friendly. Wonder why?

- On average, you will only ever need about 5% of the stuff you're taught at school, and you'll remember the wrong stuff when you try to remember something important; I always said schools was pointless...

"Fear me, for I am your Apocalypse"

Ok, but at least give true useless information that's interesting, not dumb made up stuff.

Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year

If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.

The oldest person to live was Jeanne Louise Calment, she lived for a whopping 122 years until she died of smoking related complications

Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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Wow, I bet that's not the only thing of his that got melted if you know what I mean (Microwaves cook food by focusing radiation onto the food, causing the water inside to heat up. Humans have water inside them. I hate to think what that did to his, erm, facilities!)

@huffer, i knew those..!
spell racecar backwards.

>your heart can pump blood up to 6ft. (i htink it was that..)

heck.. i can't think of anymore.

@ tachyon, it only happens at very high levels.

there is a story on darwinawards.com or in on of there books, about a phone technician who would sit next to a transmitter, as he said the microwaves kept him warm.

xmas eve, he does this as usual, only unknown to him, the company turns up the power. His relief comes in the morning to find a lovely roasted smell.

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

There is a Nike commercial that was shot in Kenya with Samburu tribesman speaking in their native language Maa. The slogan "Just Do It" appears when the tribesman is talking. In reality he was saying, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes."


Edited by - freighter fighter on 05-07-2003 23:48:42