The useless information thread
Rhamlin
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So I read dogs like squeaky toys because it it reminds them of an injured animal.
Let’s hear some more.
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Rats cannot vomit. That’s why rat poison works.
I'm speechless
According to basketball rules, it is illegal either to palm the ball or to exceed two steps between dribbles.
No, I'm serious... it is.
When I first joined the forum I thought the Bum of the Week thread was about homeless folks. Turns out it's about butts...
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
What?! It's not about bad baseball pitchers? I'll comb every page until I find out.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I thought it was a dry-begging thread, imagine my shock, lol
The Notre Dame Fighting irish are named after a riot where a bunch of students kicked the crap out of the KKK.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
More than 35,000 people in 160 countries are sweating on the 10th drop of pitch. They’ll be waiting a while yet. Since Parnell cut the stem of the funnel in 1930, just nine drops have fallen
And yet, to this day, no one has seen a drop fall.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/apr/30/its-literally-slower-than-watching-australia-drift-north-the-laboratory-experiment-that-will-outlive-us-all
Reminds me of old panes of glass thickening at the bottom, it's an amorphous solid.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-fiction-glass-liquid/
Here's a useless toy:
1943 Chrysler M4A4 Sherman Tank
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/times-are-tough-buy-yourself-a-1943-chrysler-m4a4-sherman-tank-187684.html
....WooF....
There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.
Eigengrau, also called Eigenlicht, dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background that many people report seeing in the absence of light.
“Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends with “mt.”
Depends on the part of the country you live, in the south you can add a T on the end of anything
The Romans used urine to whiten teeth. Yucky
Very surprising.
There are 118 ridges on the edge of a dime.
Did you know Reno NV is further west than Los Angeles CA?
The 2017 study found out that an average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.
For some folks, using the bathroom is exercise...
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Did you know the Southernmost Restaurant in the USA is located on the Big Island of Hawaii. Family and I went a while back and the food was amazing. The place looks like a dive but the food was great http://www.hanahourestaurant.com/ I had the Mahi Burger so good!
Shoe shops used X-Ray machines to measure shoe sizes in the 1940s before the risks of X-Rays were fully understood.
The local shoe shop had one of those until I was 6 or 7.
How was that easier than a measurin‘ stick. Or was is to get people into their shop.
the latter, the wonders of science.
I thought key west was the southern most point in the US. Just looked guess Hawaii is a little farther south.
Are you saying this newfound information was useless?
Key West is if you’re only talking about the 48 contiguous states. Add us outliers to the mix and things get all skewed.
Mexico City Could Sink Up to 65 Feet
Due to a phenomenon called subsidence, the metropolis's landscape is compacting—and parts of the city are now dropping a foot and a half each year.