useless facts

[Luggz]

In the UK a village that did not lose any citizens fighting in the First World War is known as a Thankful Village. In England and Wales there are 52 Thankful Villages but in Scotland and Northern Ireland there are none.

[Edwolf]

Lee Evans has a fear of the colour green. He once freaked out when he was made to wear a green suit!

[Cifero Windtail]

The original keyboard player in the Cutting Crew was a man by the name of Tony Moore.

[JC_Shepherd]

apple seeds are mildy poisonous but not enough to harm humans

[Edwolf]

Bob Newhart has a fear of flying.

[Cifero Windtail]

(You wanna know something funny? I accidentally made "Bob Newhart" my laptop username.)
Jon-Erik Hexam, a famous actor, was messing around with a gun filled with blanks and accidentally killed himself when one of them embedded itself in his temple.

[Edwolf]

The oldest man in the world to divorce his wife was 108 years old. His wife was 80 at the time of their divorce.

[anoni]

Interesting facts: (Note: Nukes is the measurement of the amount of energy a small nuclear bomb yields using the FatMan nuclear bomb [8.8 x 10^13 Joules])
- A hurricane releases 6.81 nukes of energy a second.
-1KG of matter will convert to 1022.73 nukes of energy.
- Krakotoa's eruption released 9090.9 nukes of energy.
- The sun releases 170,454,545.5 nukes of energy on the earth in one day
- The sun releases 4.318 x 10^10 nukes of energy in total for 1 second.
- Some of the most largest supernova's release 1.136 x 10^32 nukes worth of energy.
(That's 113,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 nukes of energy)

The Tapier has the largest Penis to body ratio size of any mammel
There are more phones sold in Australia then there are people in Australia (1.03 phones per person)
E^(i x pi) = -1
Mathematical knowledge about how irrational infinities can be larger then rational infinities has driven 6 people insane at different time periods.
Facebook Achieved a Market Audience of 50,000,000 in just 2 years
Call of duty Modern Warfare 3 made more money in the first day then any other video game, movie or book in history. It also made $1,000,000,000 one day before Avatar did
Grand Theft Auto 4 is the most expensive game of all time, costing Rockstar over $110,000,000 to make
0^0 = 1 (debatable)
The writer of C  programming language died in the same month as Steve jobs, he was given considerably less attention despite giving (arguably) more progress for the computing industry

I'll add more if I can think of them

[Sne]

0^0 is an indeterminate form. It's not 0 nor 1.

And I know I'm probably being picky, but If you use a value with 2 significant figures (8.8*10^13 J), you can't get a number with 10 significant figures (170,454,545.5 nukes; it's 170,000,000 nukes). It's just confusing people with lots of insignificant digits.

Dennis Ritchie, they guy who died a week after jobs, was given close to no attention at all, despite actually building foundation for, among many, many others, Mac OS (which is Unix-based). Let's be blunt, he actually brought modern computers into existence rather than just sold them and made animations.

[Aoren Deringer]

An interrobang is a combination of an inquisitorial mark (?) and a "Bang" (Or exclaimation mark) !
May be themost awesome punctuation viable in the English language, IMO.

[George]

RubberFruit's videos are popular enough for Cleverbot to know about.

[anoni]

0^0 is an indeterminate form. It's not 0 nor 1.

And I know I'm probably being picky, but If you use a value with 2 significant figures (8.8*10^13 J), you can't get a number with 10 significant figures (170,454,545.5 nukes; it's 170,000,000 nukes). It's just confusing people with lots of insignificant digits.

Dennis Ritchie, they guy who died a week after jobs, was given close to no attention at all, despite actually building foundation for, among many, many others, Mac OS (which is Unix-based). Let's be blunt, he actually brought modern computers into existence rather than just sold them and made animations.

The 0^0 thing, as I said, is debatable.
The insignificant number thing, I decided to use as little scientific notation as possible and to use as many significant figures as possible simply because, I was posting this on facebook, and people can't usually grasp of the size of numbers. I'd think to most people I sent that too via facebook, 170,454,545.5 seemed like a much larger number (or at least easier to grasp it's significance) then 170,000,000. I was also using the "nuke" as an SI, the real energy outputs in joules can be seen on wikipeida. You aren't actually supposed to convert the "nukes" into joules.


Thanks for the input though

[George]

TF2 (And other Half-Life games, I believe) was designed to be easier for players to modify without messing things up. (cheating, causing bugs, etc.)

[Cifero Windtail]

In "Perfect Dark", the easter egg is a piece of cheese.

[George]

One of the commentary nodes in Portal translates into a picture with a certain program.