Useless Information Competition
 

Random useless information is great to bring up in conversations...making it I guess, usefull information?.?

for instance...

the Red Hot Chili Peppers couldnt write a song for months because Anthony had writers block so bad, it almost broke up the band.

What useless crap do you know?

Ones forearm and foot are the same length...

My forearm and foot aren't the only things that are the same length...

"stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with only using your left hand (using proper typing technique)

lmao xwesleyx

what's the other...your ass crack? :)

The names of the lions in front of the New York City Public Library are Patience and Fortitude, named by then mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...

More animals die in the desert by drowning then by dehydration. This is because when the annual rains come a lot of animals become gorged on the water pass out and drown. Or they get stuck in the muds and the water level rises above them and they drown.

If you take the population of China and line it up 4 people wide and have them walk by you the line would never end. This is becuase of the birth rate in China. When a person is born at the end of the line when they get to you the would be in their mid 40s or so.

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That's assuming the mummy and daddy Chinese take a break from walking past every now and again
:p


The Great Pyramid at Giza has a perimeter which is equal to the circumference of a circle whose radius is equal to the height of the pyramid. It's af if it were a linear representation of a hemisphere.

"Typewriter" is the longest word using letters only on the top row.

And shouldn't this go in Tilted Nonsense?

30000 people fainted on the live televisation of King Edwards giving up of the thrown in 1936

dreamt is the only english word ending with "mt"

George W Bush owns a timber company

John Kerry pays a lower income tax rate than I do

Dick Cheney has a gay daughter

John Edwards was a trial lawyer

The list goes on and on............................-->

Book rhymes with cook.

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A golf ball has 336 dimples on it, and a dime has 118 ridges on the side.

The strawberry is the only fruit with it's seeds on the outside

There are three words in the english language that begin with DW -
Dwell, Dwindle, Dwarf

(Guess what West Wing episode I just watched?)

If you divide your height by the heighth of your hips, you'll get 1.6180339887...

If you divide your arm length by the length to your elbow, you'll get 1.6180339887...

If you divide your leg length by length of your knee you'll get 1.6180339887...

A DNA molecule measures 34 by 21 angstoms, divide them and you'll get 1.6180339887...

The amount of times that venus rotates around the sun, divided by the number that earth rotates the sun will equal 1.6180339887...

There are thousands upon thousands of things on earth that one way or another will equal 1.6180339887...

The number 1.6180339887... which continues on infinitly is called "PHI" or "The Divine Ratio". It is closely related to the Fibonacci series of numbers. Which if you divide backwards, will always equal PHI. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13, Etc Etc.


In turn.... PHI ROCKS!

The sacred beverage of the Aryans is known as Soma in India and Haoma in Persia. Current theory is that it is made from the Harmel Shrub, the main psychoactive ingredient of which is harmeline. Here's where it gets weird: On the other side of the planet, in the uplands of Uruguay and Paraguay, the Guarani (they're the ones in <i>The Mission</i> - excellent film, but I digress), have a different favorite pychoactive beverage. It's a drink made from the <i>yag&eacute;</i> vine. It's active ingredient is also Harmeline. They call the drink <i>jauma</i>. That is pronounced: haoma. (From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568360754/qid=1097941706/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-0966060-9954269?v=glance&s=books"><i>Essential Subsatnces</i> by Richard Rudgley</a>.)

Most male mammals have a bone in their penis called the baculum or <i>os penis</i>. Humans do not. This is the genesis (pardon the pun) of the myth that woman was created from man's rib bone.

Beer has been brewed for at least 7000 years, but only in the last 300 has it been flavored with hops on any kind of a regular basis.

Venus rotates 5.3 times for eact turn about the sun, and it does so backwards, so that, assuming one could see the Sun from Venus, it would rise in the west and set in the east 5 or 6 times a year.

Menoman just explained Phi, the third most important mathematical constant (and the neatest to the non matematician), and everyone knows the most important, Pi, which is equal to 3 in Alabama :D, and the ratio of a circle's circmfrence to its diameter everywhere else, 3.14159....

In between is <i>e</i>, which is a number such that the integral from 1 to <i>e</i> of the function 1/x equals 1. It is also the infinite summation of the series 1/x!. 2.718281828459.... It is the base of the natural logarithm, and has broad applications in statistics and engineering.

Just after Phi is <i>i</i> which is called the imaginary number and defined as the square root of -1.

OK, here's the neat thing: <font size="+3"><i>e</i>^<i>i</i>&pi;=-1</font>

I read your other thread on PHI, Menoman. Fascinating stuff, I'd never heard of it before.

Well, with the election coming up, here's a bit of interesting but useless Presidential information.

President of the United States for just one short day.
Quick: Who were the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Presidents of the United States (under our current Constitution)? If you're like the typical American, you probably have no clue.

So here's a refresher for you:

#11 was James K. Polk

#12 was David Rice Atchison

#13 was Zachary Taylor

Hold it! I can hear you screaming all the way over here - David Rice who?

They never taught you about this guy in history class. In fact, they said that Taylor was Prez #12, not #13.

What's going on here?

First, a bit of background:

David Rice Atchison was born on August 11, 1807 in a place named Frogtown, Kentucky. Today it is called Kirklevington (They should have stuck with Frogtown).

At the young age of 36, Atchison was appointed to the United States Senate to replace a Missouri Senator that had just died. He held this office for 12 years, from 1843 to 1855.

Then it happened:

President James Knox Polk was scheduled to step down from office at noon on Sunday, March 4, 1849.

Uh, oh! BIG problem!

It seems that President-elect Zachary Taylor was a religious man and refused to be sworn in on a Sunday. It was the Sabbath. Taylor insisted on waited until the following day.

The big question arose: Who was going to serve as the President during this twenty-four hour period?

Normally, the Vice-President (George M. Dallas at the time) would fill the position, but his term expired along with Polk's. Dallas had actually resigned as President of the Senate on Friday, March 2nd.

Under the law, the Presidency then fell to the President Pro Tem of the Senate. You can guess who that was - David Rice Atchison! Atchison had just been elected for an additional term to this office during the closing hours of the Thirtieth Congress.

As a result, Atchison legally became the President for a twenty-four hour period, even though he was never elected to this office or sworn in.

Now if you were President for a day, what would you do? Declare war on some dinky little nation? Bomb your enemies? Appoint your friends to office? Make some weird executive decision?

Atchison did none of these things. When asked what he did on this day, he commented "I went to bed. There had been two or three busy nights finishing up the work of the Senate, and I slept most of that Sunday."

In other words, this particular day was uneventful in American history. No major executive decisions needed to be made.

Many, including Atchison, have questioned whether or not he was actually President. Technically, Atchison was appointed as President Pro Tem for each session of the Senate. Since the previous session of the Senate had been dismissed, one could claim that Atchison's term had expired (even though he was to continue in this role when the Senate reconvened for the next session).

This leads to a very interesting question: If there was no President, Vice-President, President Pro Tem, a dismissed Senate, and a dismissed House of Representatives - Who in the world was running this country?

Even if one could prove that Atchison wasn't President for the twenty-four hour period between the two Presidents, he definitely had the job for several minutes.

Here's why:

On Inauguration Day the first person to be sworn in was David Rice Atchison as President Pro Tem. So now he was definitely President (congratulations!). Atchison then ended this short stint as President with the swearing-in of the new Vice-President, Millard Fillmore (he would become President in just sixteen months following the natural death of Zachary Taylor). The entire Senate then proceeded to the east portico for the inauguration of the new President.

So ends the reign of one David Rice Atchison as the leader of the United States. We may never truly know for sure if he actually was President for that short period of time, but, let's face it, it makes for a better story to think that he was.

Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.

-Mikey

Oh yeah... and "Weird Al" Yankovic has a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture. He was also his high school's Valedictorian at the age of 16.

-Mikey

A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head, and the only reason it dies it starvation.

A scorpion will sting itself to death if you pour whiskey on it's back.

Has anyone else got a book of these? I was almost compelled to start cheating and upping my post count!! Oops, sorry mods.

Natalie Gulbis is the hottest women's golfer ever. Apologies to Laura Davies.

Ray Harroun invented the rear-view mirror, and used it to win the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911.

Useless Celebrity Facts:

David Allen Grier, the comedian, has down syndrome.

Glenn Danzig sleeps with a teddy bear.

Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaprhodite.

Carbon, a "molecule", has 13 protons, which scientists commonly call "atoms".

Oprah Winfrey was born on a steamboat.

The secretive PEZ company, known for candy production, is owned by Gene Siskel.

Gene Siskel owns a company? I didn't know the dead could own companies.

You can slow a vampire down by giving him something to do, like pick up poppy seeds or unravel a net. (They're quite compulsive.)

The home team must provide the referee with 36 footballs for each National Football League game.

I'm not wearing any pants.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

I can fold a t-shirt, and towels into a perfect six inch square. Useless, i tell you.

And the easiest way to verify that your t-shirt is folded into a perfect 6 inch square, assuming you have no ruler, is with a dollar bill, which is...6 inches.

Did I mention I have three other things that are the same length as a dollar bill?

Horses and rats can't puke.

Aspirin is deadly to cats.

A porkupine (sp?) can take more than the lethal human dose of heroin and still be ok.

If you feed it correctly, the average housecat could live to be as old as me - 23.

Methane emissions from cattle is such an environmental worry here in NZ, that we have a "fart tax" that farmers have to pay. However cows release most of their methane thru burping, so it should be burp tax...but the fart tax name stuck.

My girlfriend is Vet.

BUT WHY DOES HE WEAR TOWELS AFTER HE'S OUT OF THE SHOWER? IT MAKES NO SENSE!

A regular person cannot kiss his/her own elbow. If you can, you are irregular.

correct spelling of word is porcupine. when a male and female porcupine mate, the male pisses all over her and soaks her with his urine. that is when copulation occurs.

Henry VIII had a great passion for music.
He played several instruments and had amassed a considerable collection of them over his lifetime.
When he died he left a collection that included 5 bagpipes, 78 recorders, 78 flutes, 10 trombones, 14 trumpets, & a mechanical virginal.

(I found this while looking for the history of the recorder)

Looks like some of us need to hit Snopes.com!

Shakespeare may or may not have invented the word 'assassinate' (and 'bump'), but 'assassin' is generally thought to come from the Crusades, where a group of Muslim fighters fought under the influence of hashish. They were called the 'hashashin', which mutated into the modern 'assassin'.

I've never found any good evidence suggesting that Shakespeare invented it, but it's commonly thought that he invented 'assassinate'. Maybe he invented 'assassinate', but not 'assassin'. Maybe the truth about that is for someone else to post :)