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« on: December 03, 2011, 01:57:10 AM »
did you know???
 
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
 
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
 
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
 
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
 
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
 
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
 
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
 
In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
 
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop (remember this next time you bite your nails  X3 )
 
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Re: useless facts
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2011, 04:32:14 AM »
In the US, a penny costs more than a cent to make, lol.



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Re: useless facts
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 06:19:17 AM »
Scotland is the only developed country in the world where Coca Cola isn't the most popular soft drink.

In 1927, a French policeman was tried for shooting a boy he believed was a werewolf.

It is better for the enviroment to drive an old car than it is to have a new one built.
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Re: useless facts
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2011, 10:15:00 AM »
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thanks ill use this when im trying sound smart XD

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Re: useless facts
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2011, 12:03:13 PM »
1 grosz (Polish cent) costs about 5 that much to make and the metal alone costs 1,6 that much.

I doubt:
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In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
That kind of law is most probably a result of a precedent, which makes the above "fact" invalid without providing complete context.

And this is totally incorrect:
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Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop (remember this next time you bite your nails)
Fingernails are made of keratin, while fly poop is pretty much made of regular poop; what they eat, they poop. They don't eat keratin.

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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
I doubt it, car requires far less work hours. All in all, it depends on the method of estimating the cost.

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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
No it isn't. Not only it's not strictly defined, originally it was defined differently and it wasn't even close to 10 ms.

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Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
They see in blue and UV, that means they're attracted to anything moving which reflects blue. Obviously, white clothes reflect the most blue light. There's no reason why they should be attracted to blue clothes as they can't see any difference between certain blues and grays. Probably a misconception which grew into a myth (like with spinach containing 10x that much iron than other vegetables - which is also false).

I propose we post "facts" that are facts, not factoids. :)
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Re: useless facts
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2011, 04:40:44 PM »
Did you know that starfish have no brain?



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Re: useless facts
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2011, 06:05:11 PM »
Again, they do have brain. It is spread out, but still technically a brain :P Sorry for being a pain, but that's a factoid again :P

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Re: useless facts
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2011, 03:52:17 AM »
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Re: useless facts
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2011, 04:31:26 AM »
Us leopards are the best climbers and jumpers of the cat world.

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Re: useless facts
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2011, 04:39:18 AM »
The firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans) is the only cephalopod species to be able to see in color.
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Re: useless facts
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2011, 04:47:19 AM »
A banana is yellow.
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Re: useless facts
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2011, 05:40:59 AM »
There is a species of jellyfish that is theoretically immortal.
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Re: useless facts
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2011, 05:51:22 AM »
^I believe I brought that up first somewhere!  XD


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Re: useless facts
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2011, 06:03:49 AM »
The easter egg in "Perfect Dark" is a piece of cheese.
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« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2011, 06:23:49 AM »
^I believe I brought that up first somewhere!  XD

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