Interesting Yet Useless Facts

[landostarchaser]

We all love em'. Those pointless facts that you know or have looked up, that is so unbelievable but no one knows it.
Well... This is you thread to post it.
Post your most interesting facts, whether looking them up or just out of the top of your head.

Fact: The loudest animal is not a blue whale, but a shrimp. A Tiger Pistol Shrimp to be exact.

This might have been on a Dan Brown video, but i don't remember, it's just what I thought of.

Your turn

[Lyserg Zeroz]

There are some species of jellyfish (or I think it was just one) that are theorically immortal because of an special ability they have that allows them to reverse their life cycle. There are also some species that are edible.

[landostarchaser]

Isn't that the species they say will take over the ocean? ^

[Lyserg Zeroz]

^I have no idea
Anyways, it is apparently weird for them to use that ability (thus the "theorically")

[Shmian]

Pop rocks have a high pressure bubble of carbon dioxide inside the candy so when the candy layer melts it pops.

[landostarchaser]

Even though most people would say that the tongue is the strongest muscle (which you might have heard), It is actually the muscle that controls your jaw. Your bite can produce more Newtons on average than any other muscle.

[vichilux]

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA... sorry, Dan (who is not living in Nebraska right now but may or may not go back) xD

[swiftthefox15]

This is my Specialty, here's a few

1) The Same PSI you use to bite through an apple can be used to bite through your tongue, your brain inhibits you from doing this

2) Soybeans are the ONLY vegetation that can provide a complete protein for your body, It gives you all nine (of 22) proteins that your body cannot make

3) The Item on the Taco Bell menu with the most Kilo-calories, Kilo-calorie is the correct name for Calorie, is the Taco Salad oddly Enough

4) The 2nd most fatty fruit is the Avacado, 1st is the olive, but despite this Avacado is very good for you

5) "Noob" was among candidates for the one-millionth English word selection by the Global Language Monitor. It lost to Web 2.0

6) You will spend 2 weeks of your life waiting for the traffic light to change

7) You will eat 8 spiders while you sleep in your whole life

8) Bengies Drive-In Movie Theater; Middle River, MD; has the largest movie screen in the country, measuring 52 feet high and 120 feet wide. 6,240sqft. BTW if your ever in Baltimore County I recommended going to Bengies, it's only $8 for three movies and the atmosphere is awesome.

9) The Baltimore Ravens are the 8th most valuable football franchise in the country named by Forbes Magazine, The Steelers are 17th, YOU HEAR THAT PITTSBURGH WERE BETTER THAN YOU as in our net-worth is better =D. BTW Dallas Cowboys are 1st. BTW the 2nd The Steelers are a good team... i apologize (But I don't apologize for your horrible rude fans)

[vichilux]

SPOILER: Click to show

^7) freaks me out!

[landostarchaser]

Swift owns
And i know right... What about those people who sleep with their mouth closed?

[swiftthefox15]

Oct 7, 2010 20:06:54 GMT -5 landostarchaser said:

Swift owns
And i know right... What about those people who sleep with their mouth closed?

You might think you sleep with your mouth closed your whole life, but when your sick you will open your mouth when your asleep

[landostarchaser]

epic xD

[Tony, the one and only]

1:a rabbits testicles are situated in front of the reproductive organ
2: a Mantises ear is located on its stomach,and can pull out if a 30g dive that would hinder its predator unconcious.
3: zebras are white with black stripes
4: the egg came before the chicken... reptiles layed eggs and dinosaurs were reptiles.
5: scientist are speculating that one of jupiters moons may have once been a planet, due to its size and presence of water.
6: 1+1 sometimes equals 3: 1db+1db=3db
7: bears have a better sense of smell than dogs
8: most idioms are oxymoronic such as bone dry: your bones are 75% water or straight as an arrow: arrows warp when shot.
9: the human brain is able to store more information than 1000 of todays best supercomputers.
10: bombs implode before they explode, all of this takes place within a fraction of a second.

well thats all i can think of in a tired state of mind... ill see what i can remember tommorow

[SwimFellow]

Oct 7, 2010 16:40:15 GMT -5 landostarchaser said:

This might have been on a Dan Brown video, but i don't remember, it's just what I thought of.

Was in Youtubillionaire 1 or 2..

1. George Washington had three foxhounds whose names were Drunkard, Tipsy, and Tippler.

2. Houdini trained his dog to escape from mini-handcuffs.

3. I gotta feelin'. That the black eyed peas are actually beans..

4. French fries aren't french. They're Belgian.

5. Attila the Hun died of a nosebleed on the night of his wedding.

6. William Wrigley gave gum to whoever bought his baking soda. He abandoned baking soda after discovering no one bought it for baking, but for the free gum.

7. FERRETS can sleep twenty hours a day.

8. 500 years before domesticated house cats, FERRETS were very popular as house pets.

More to come!

[newschooled]

The plastic things on the ends of your shoelaces are called aglets.

[swiftthefox15]

Trivia the 2nd

1) In early drafts of the Back to the Future script, the time machine was built out of an old refrigerator.

2) The first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was originally given a movie rating of G. That was, until they added the burning corpses of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. The rating was quickly changed to PG.

3) There are 293 ways to make change for a U.S. dollar.

4) Giving a “thumbs up” also represents the American Sign Language symbol for the number “10.”

5) Dogs who bark continuously can get laryngitis, just like humans, but it takes longer. Canine vocal cords are thicker and take longer to get irritated.

6) Cashews are always sold without their shells because the shell contains an oil that can cause a rash similar to poison ivy.

7) Wrigley’s gum was the first product with a bar code to be scanned at a supermarket.

8) Twinkies originally had banana-flavored filling, but switched to vanilla when World War II brought the banana trade to a halt.

9) Batman was Based off the 1926 movie "The Bat" which was a horror movie about a serial killed who wore a Bat Costume. How a serial killer became a knight of justice, idk that.

[Kevak]

Finnish has been regarded as the hardest language in the world to learn.

[Alex]

Heat doesn't rise, but heat can give air and water buoyant tendencies.

Also, the 8 spiders thing isn't true.

[newschooled]

The way to outline text into compound vectors in Adobe illustrator is to select the text and press Ctrl/Apple+shift+o. Don't forget to ungroup after!

[Lyserg Zeroz]

Liquid water is denser than ice (Fix'd). This is also why ice floats on water.