Whats your most useless peice of mind boggling useless info?

I seem to store useless bits of information for use in pub quizzes - a good one is which three artists released the power of love (in the same year but I forgot it/haven't time to search) answers on a postcard.....

Some pretty useless stuff can be found here :

www.uselessknowledge.com

actually quite a useful site - hours of fun to be had

Originally posted by Jayne
I seem to store useless bits of information for use in pub quizzes - a good one is which three artists released the power of love (in the same year but I forgot it/haven't time to search) answers on a postcard.....

Frankie goes to Hollywood, Hewy Lewis and the News and Jennifer Rush.
No googling required (though I had to ask Fuzzy for Jennifer Rush.)

My bit of useless info :

All polar bears are left handed.

Nomme

Originally posted by nomme
Frankie goes to Hollywood, Hewy Lewis and the News and Jennifer Rush.
No googling required (though I had to ask Fuzzy for Jennifer Rush.)

My bit of useless info :

All polar bears are left handed.

Nomme

Sorry nomme - WWF (http://www.worldwildlife.org/new/email/question21_no.htm)

(sounded a bit suspicious so I checked it up - several reputable sources) :)

My bit of useless info?

The human brain smells strongly of cheese
(source Thackeray Medical Museum, Leeds)

The world's largest species of slug can grow to 12 inches and can be found in the UK.

I know which is the only sport where you have to be right-handed.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
The human brain smells strongly of cheese
(source Thackeray Medical Museum, Leeds)

Does no one else find this incredibly disturbing?!!:shocked:

Originally posted by Agent Dan
Does no one else find this incredibly disturbing?!!:shocked:

yes. VERY!

Originally posted by nomme

My bit of useless info :

All polar bears are left handed.

Nomme
If you eat a whole Polar Bear Liver you'll die of Iron Overdose.

So I hear anyway..... :loopy:

Apple pips contain cyanide... you'd need to eat over a hundred pips though all at once to notice...

Originally posted by Agent Dan
Apple pips contain cyanide... you'd need to eat over a hundred pips though all at once to notice...
Maybe GOD added the cyanide after Adam n Eve took the apple from the tree.

GOD thought to himself, I'm gonna get those little ******* next time they eat my apples :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Sorry nomme - WWF (http://www.worldwildlife.org/new/email/question21_no.htm)

(sounded a bit suspicious so I checked it up - several reputable sources) :)

WHAT! It must be true. I read it the internet. ;)

WWF - what do they know. The internet knows better (http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=all+polar+bears+are+left+handed&q2=not+all+polar+bears+are+left+handed&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us)

Anyway, did you know a leech has 32 brains?

Nomme

Originally posted by DaBouncer
Maybe GOD added the cyanide after Adam n Eve took the apple from the tree.

GOD thought to himself, I'm gonna get those little ******* next time they eat my apples :thumbsup:

LOL! Very likely...! You at the xmas party tonight DB?

Originally posted by Agent Dan
LOL! Very likely...! You at the xmas party tonight DB?
I'm at AN Xmas party, but not SF's Xmas Party.

It's the day job's Xmas do tonight! Soz folks!

There's a great book for this type of thing:

http://www.miscellanies.info

I've read the first one, getting the second one for Christmas.

In addition to this, I recently heard this piece of priceless advice:

If you're cooking fish and get "fishy fingers", make sure you wash your hands in cold water - otherwise you can "cook" the fish onto your hands, making them smell for some time...

More true facts

http://www.thebrainstrust.co.uk/unreliable/

Mao Tse Tung was an avid devotee of Monster Truck rallies, and himself drove a 17 foot tall Dodge Ram called "Paper Tiger".*

* May be a lie

Originally posted by ncrossland
More true facts

http://www.thebrainstrust.co.uk/unreliable/

:)
From that site:

Saddam's spider hole is all set to become next year's must have garden feature. Alan Titchmarch lives in one already, but nobody is trying to find it.

LOL
Nomme

There are 133 species of snake in Vietnam, 131 of which are poisness.

Originally posted by Tony Ruscoe


If you're cooking fish and get "fishy fingers", make sure you wash your hands in cold water - otherwise you can "cook" the fish onto your hands, making them smell for some time...

The same is also true for onions, the juice gets absorbed right in to your damn pores!

Here's some questions for you and I can't for the life of me find an answer to this one.......

My Dad is doing a quiz with his next door neighbour and I found out for him that 'R C Lamburn' is also known as Richmal Crompton who wrote the Just William stories, but I was unable to find out:

1. The official name for the 'study of clouds'

and

2. What it's called when a place is named after a person. eg. Washington was named after George Washington

Can anyone help pleeeeeeeeeeeease cos it's doing my head in and I can't find it anywhere. :(

Originally posted by Pauly-Plumba

1. The official name for the 'study of clouds' [/B]

Cloudology? or meteorology??

NOON imn capitoals, is the only word that when turned upside down turnd around that still says noon.

only two words in th e english language that stay English in every other language

Coca cola (not suprising) and Taxi (huh?)

Baden Powell started Scouts

The sea is warmer in Winter than in Summer, you may not beleive it but its up to 5deg C warmer and thats why we get High Preassure weather during Winter because the air is rising from the sea and falling on the land because the land is cooler

Originally posted by Fletch
only two words in th e english language that stay English in every other language

Coca cola (not suprising) and Taxi (huh?)


The most widley understood word on the planet is "OK". The second is Coca Cola.

Originally posted by Pauly-Plumba


1. The official name for the 'study of clouds'

2. What it's called when a place is named after a person. eg. Washington was named after George Washington




1. Nephology and can be measured with a nephoscope (http://app10.internet.gov.sg/data/nea/cms/htdocs/images/cms/mss/gridneph.jpg)

2. The study of it is onomastics, can help you no more

Originally posted by venger
1. Nephology and can be measured with a nephoscope (http://app10.internet.gov.sg/data/nea/cms/htdocs/images/cms/mss/gridneph.jpg)

2. The study of it is onomastics, can help you no more

WTG on Nephology venger - Googled and googled and missed it completely - was going to guess Nebulology, but its a bit of a mouthful.

Reindeer urine is very narcotic because Reindeers eat magic mushrooms that are too strong for us humans to cope with. They absorb all the bad stuff and wee out pure LSD

....this is all according to stoner mate who watches Discovery Channel a bit too much! :loopy:

Also if you give seagulls alka-seltzer they explode!
saw it on BLue Peter, therefore must be true! :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Mosherchik
Also if you give seagulls alka-seltzer they explode!
saw it on BLue Peter, therefore must be true! :rolleyes:

On a related note, I heard that if you feed pigeons bicarbonate of soda they explode as they can't burp to release the gas in time... dunno if it's true though!

Originally posted by Mosherchik


Also if you give seagulls alka-seltzer they explode!
saw it on BLue Peter, therefore must be true! :rolleyes:

Of course ALKA-SELTZER (http://www.skepticfiles.org/urban/alka-sel.htm) say this is not true :thumbsup:

The human small intestine if straightened out and measured with a ruler would no longer work properly.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
WTG on Nephology venger - Googled and googled and missed it completely - was going to guess Nebulology, but its a bit of a mouthful.

Words are like buses, you wait and wait and then the same word comes along twice. Coincidence or is The Times watching us?

Nephology (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4101-963847,00.html)

In today's word watching they have the word NEPHELIGENOUS which means producing clouds of smoke from the Greek néphos, a cloud.

There are more people speak Spanish as a first language in the USA than in Spain itself.

There are more people attend Manchester United's home games than the entire population of Greenland - the largest island in the world.

In winter it is possible to walk across the Bering Straits on the ice from Russia to the USA ( Alaska).


There are one million ants for every human being on the planet.(Must have been someone really dedicated to count them all).

That big moose that plays dodgy-dealing market trader and all round scrubber Mo Slater in Eastenders is the sister of one of my favourite actors, and possibly one of the best known british actors working in Hollywood today, Gary Oldman.

Does anyone have any interesting useless trivia facts that I can randomly amaze people with in social situations..stuff like 'it is physically impossible to lick your own elbow' and 'ducks quacks don't echo'....that sort fo thing

:thumbsup: :D

Try this thread http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5388
which is similar to this one. [1]

Nomme
[1] So similar I might merge them later.

[LATER : Threads merged at wibbles request]

if a shark went backward - it would die

Originally posted by wibbles
Does anyone have any interesting useless trivia facts that I can randomly amaze people with in social situations..stuff like 'it is physically impossible to lick your own elbow' and 'ducks quacks don't echo'....that sort fo thing

:thumbsup: :D

it is not physically impossible to lick your own elbow.

pinnapples can't swim.

maybe not for freaks like you but for the majority of us it is

No word in the dictionary rhymes with ......Month

Pigs cannot look up into the sky.

why get so personal wibbles !!!? ...

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
god this cant be true surely.....Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

Originally posted by neeeeeeeeeek
pinnapples can't swim.

hehe :thumbsup:

wish i was a pig

Originally posted by Jamie
why get so personal wibbles !!!? ...

awwwww.....don't cry :( :( :(

Originally posted by wibbles
awwwww.....don't cry :( :( :(

I am not crying wibbles .... only asking why you're so quick to get personal with people you don't know ???

Originally posted by mimicraze
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
god this cant be true surely.....Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
Just to go slightly off topic I am reminded of a hilarious Japer Carrot sketch where he goes into the average time we spend doing things thro our life..e.g...sleep avergage 8 hours a day would amount to 218400 hours or 9100 days in bed...to cut a long story short he worked out we would spend 24 hours of orour life having an orgasm...'what a day that would be' :D

Originally posted by Jamie
I am not crying wibbles .... only asking why you're so quick to get personal with people you don't know ???
chill out..stop being over sensitive...It wasn't meant in a nasty sort of way but if I saw someone that could lick their elbow I'd be thinking they were a bit weird..may freak-like

Originally posted by wibbles
... It wasn't meant in a nasty sort of way ...

S'ok then ... just sounded a bit like you were saying I was a freak that's all.

I can't like my elbow personally ... I am about 1.5 inch away ... but some people can.

Originally posted by mimicraze
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. [/B]

I have yet to see a slug jump either.

Elephants are one of the few vertbrates to have 4 knees.

Here’s one.

Using a chessboard, place 1ml of water from an eyedropper on the first square.
Place 2ml on the second square.
Place 4ml on the third square.
Place 8ml on the fourth square…. and so on, doubling the amount for each square right up to the 64th square.

NB: Use an old chessboard, you might ruin it.

How much water will there be on the 64th square?


Ans. = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 ml

or 9,223,372,036,854,776 litres

or 9,223,372,036,855 cubic metres (tonnes)

Equivalent to a body of water 1 km deep with a surface area of 9,223 sq km

Boy, is that one really buggered-up chessboard!!!
:loopy: :thumbsup:

A spider has enough gossamer in its spinneret at any one time to reach the moon and back (500,000 miles!!). NATO have lost 23 spiders to oxygen starvation so far trying to prove it.:rolleyes: :thumbsup:

There are more people alive on earth at this moment than have ever lived and died throughout human existence up until 50 years ago:loopy:

A fart in a wooden chair is louder than a fart in an upholstered chair. I've just proved it!!!

Originally posted by markham
Here’s one.

Using a chessboard, place 1ml of water from an eyedropper on the first square.
Place 2ml on the second square.
Place 4ml on the third square.
Place 8ml on the fourth square…. and so on, doubling the amount for each square right up to the 64th square.

NB: Use an old chessboard, you might ruin it.

How much water will there be on the 64th square?


Ans. = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 ml

or 9,223,372,036,854,776 litres

or 9,223,372,036,855 cubic metres (tonnes)

Equivalent to a body of water 1 km deep with a surface area of 9,223 sq km

Boy, is that one really buggered-up chessboard!!!
:loopy: :thumbsup:

I heard a variation of that one, but with grains of rice instead of water.

Apparently, by the 64th square there is enough rice to cover the whole of India to a depth of 12 inches (or some equally unfathomable amount)

Originally posted by Bedhead
if a shark went backward - it would die

That one works better if you point out that sharks die if they stop swimming. No swim bladder, apparently, so they can't "hover" in the water and have to keep water passing through their gills :)

Originally posted by markham
Here’s one.

Using a chessboard, place 1ml of water from an eyedropper on the first square.
Place 2ml on the second square.
Place 4ml on the third square.
Place 8ml on the fourth square…. and so on, doubling the amount for each square right up to the 64th square.

NB: Use an old chessboard, you might ruin it.

How much water will there be on the 64th square?


Ans. = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 ml

or 9,223,372,036,854,776 litres

or 9,223,372,036,855 cubic metres (tonnes)

Equivalent to a body of water 1 km deep with a surface area of 9,223 sq km

Boy, is that one really buggered-up chessboard!!!
:loopy: :thumbsup:

That by the way is an area of land 60 miles x 60 miles, so we could easily flood Lancashire and most of Manchester.

Sam Mig., if you're reading this, grab your chessboard and eyedropper and meet us on the Woodhead pass if they release you when your sanity certificate has been granted.:idea: :smile: :headbang:

Originally posted by mojoworking
That one works better if you point out that sharks die if they stop swimming. No swim bladder, apparently, so they can't "hover" in the water and have to keep water passing through their gills :)

that is also untrue, about sharks dying when they stop swimming. maybe true for some sharks but not all. What about Wobbegongs?

You are 14,000 times more likely to have an accident involving a fridge than you are to win the jackpot on the National Lottery. Err, unless you haven't bought a ticket, when the odds are even worse.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
that is also untrue, about sharks dying when they stop swimming. maybe true for some sharks but not all. What about Wobbegongs?

There's always an exception that proves the rule.

I'm refering to regular sharks. They have no swim bladder, so when they stop swimming, they sink to the bottom.

No oxygen passess through their gills. They die.

It may be true for some sharks but but to say all, or even most is an overstatement.

Sharks are very slightly negatively bouyant on account of their enormous oil filled livers. So they will slowly sink to the bottom if they stop swimming but they won't necessarily die.

Rather than evolve a swim bladder, sharks retained liver buoyancy, possibly because it allows them to traverse great depths without exploding, unlike bony fish with swim bladders.

cat sharks, dogfish, and several others types, as well as all bottom living sharks, are able to pass water over their gills, they just don't use gill covers like bony fish do.

Tiger sharks have been observed lying on the sea floor, just chilling out, without asphyxiating too.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
It may be true for some sharks but but to say all, or even most is an overstatement.

Sharks are very slightly negatively bouyant on account of their enormous oil filled livers. So they will slowly sink to the bottom if they stop swimming but they won't necessarily die.

Rather than evolve a swim bladder, sharks retained liver buoyancy, possibly because it allows them to traverse great depths without exploding, unlike bony fish with swim bladders.

cat sharks, dogfish, and several others types, as well as all bottom living sharks, are able to pass water over their gills, they just don't use gill covers like bony fish do.

Tiger sharks have been observed lying on the sea floor, just chilling out, without asphyxiating too.

Like I said, there are exceptions, but it's true for MOST sharks.

I know how important it is to you to be seen to be correct, but if you won't believe me, here's something I've cut and pasted from a website about sharks.

http://www.sheddnet.org/ani_faqs_04.html#k

Why do most sharks need to swim constantly?
Sharks lack a swim bladder, the organ found in most other fishes to help them keep afloat. If a shark stops swimming, it will start to sink to the bottom. Once a shark has landed on the bottom, it is no longer pumping water through its gills. Without this water, the shark cannot get the oxygen it needs for respiration. Interestingly, a shark gets much of its buoyancy from its liver.

There are some sharks, however, that do not need to keep swimming. The nurse shark is an example. It can actively pump water through its gills so it can rest at the bottom of the water and still breathe

Originally posted by markham
That by the way is an area of land 60 miles x 60 miles, so we could easily flood Lancashire and most of Manchester.

Sam Mig., if you're reading this, grab your chessboard and eyedropper and meet us on the Woodhead pass if they release you when your sanity certificate has been granted.:idea: :smile: :headbang:

Or if we only make it 250 metres deep we can flood an area of 120miles x 120 miles. Mmmmmm, that's about the size of Wales isn't it.:thumbsup: :rolleyes:

So how do Sharks sleep?

Not very conclusive answer here:

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/b_sleep.htm