I was reading something about useless facts and i gave me the idea to make this thread.

What useless information do we have hanging around in our heads?

Example: I herd that the cigarette lighter came before the match

anyone got any more?

I dunno about that...

In 1827, John Walker, an English chemist began selling the first struck matches, ignited by the friction of scraping potassium chloride and antimony sulfide tips between a fold of sandpaper. Johan Edvard Lundström of Sweden patented safety matches In 1855 using red phosphorus. In 1889, Joshua Pusey patented paper matches held in a cardboard book... still the state of the art!

I am pretty sure the company to receive a patent for a pocket lighter was Art Metal Works (now Ronco) in 1910.

Peace.

i thought it was right but i will have to trust you untill i get further evidance either way

Anyone got any real trivia?

*The hottest planet in the Sol System is... Venus.
*Pluto isn't always the furthest from the sun. Sometimes it's Neptune.
*The Twin Towers in New York had more office space than the City of Liverpool.
*The collective noun for a group of Rooks is a Murder.
*Arsenic pomanders and mercury enemas were popular prophylactics for the Bubonic Plague
*The name of the dog on the HMV record lable is Nipper.
*To be a city, a town needs a Cathederal.
*There are more people living now than have ever died.
*The gas lighter predates matches.

I feel that there will be more of these.

Good thread :D

*if you tickle a rabbits tummy it goes to sleep.
*If a chinchiila gets too hot it goes mental.
*babies can breathe and swallow at the same time.
*In one amazonian tribe young men have to ingest the semen of the elders to pass into manhood (Sorry Bowser but it's true) :D
*It's possible to fart through your penis. (if you have one of course)
*rats can't vomit.
*Some people still think gay people are bad
:rolleyes:

Four police motorcycles were customized for the film Easy Rider (1969). One was burned during filming, and the other three were stolen before filming was completed.

Peace.

Its impossible to lick your elbow:D

I learned that one here:D

*Cows can swim.
:D

Cows can swim.

No sh*t?

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

There is about one quarter-pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

There's enough energy in ten minutes of one hurricane to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.

In trucking circles, a "bumper sticker" is a tailgater who is following another vehicle too closely.

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution

The kings in a deck of cards each represent a great king from history. The king of spades is King David, the king of clubs is Alexander the Great, the king of hearts is Charlemagne, and the king of diamonds is Julius Caesar.

There are about 3,000 hot dog vendors in metropolitan New York.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

In parts of Greece and Italy, people say “no” by tossing their heads back and clucking their tongues.

Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.

posted by *stRgrL*
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution

Not so, prescious, all three hit the tarmac recently, cutting their hols short on the death of granny.
Personally I think a nice engine failure would be a good way to get shut of their royal hieneys once and for all. :D

and yep cows can indeed swim, They have a little trouble with backstroke and getting the Esther Williams helmets on can be a right bitch I can tell you, but swim they can.

I remember years ago watching the Daisy Moo syncronised herd. It was like a buzby berkley extravaganza; with pats.
Anyway, I waffle. How trivial

and yep cows can indeed swim, They have a little trouble with backstroke...

:D

So when do we see the synchronized moo swim team at the Olympics?

It takes more muscles to frown than to smile.

So when do we see the synchronized moo swim team at the Olympics?


unfortunately they had to disband to to the unfortunate incident with the lifeguard and the RED shorts:D

It takes more muscles to frown than to smile.

And just 3 to extend an arm and smak the bastad:D

* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
* A shark is the only Fish that can blink with both eyes.
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, or purple.
* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
* Almonds are a member of the peach family.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* There are only four words in the English language which end in
"dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were
named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in FrankCapra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
* A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a
radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
* Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister and was a sniper in
Vietnam.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only
the left hand.

Seing as how this is my thread i should put some up of my own:D

It is ilegle for the ruling monarc to enter the house of reps in england

If a shark stops swiming it will die of sufication

Asguard:

I am sure it is before your time but many of us old fogeys will remember the Joques Cousteau special where he showed many sharks laying on the bottom of a cave totally motionless and totally asleep. That is until one of his divers touched one. It became rather active after that.
I have seen the same phenomenum on a number of nature shows relatively recently so it wasn't just that one location or some oddball circumstance of currents and water salinity as (if I remember correctly) the eminent Mr. Cousteau theorized at the time.

*Mayflies have no mouth parts (So a blo job's out!:D)
*Lipstick used to contain cats testicles.
*some perfumes contain urine
*56% of London banknotes contain traces of cocaine.
*A 3 legged table won't wobble.


* *stRgrL* A minor clarification...
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
They're not allowed to speak on any issue but they are there to keep order and see that all have a fair say. "Orda! Orda!" etc Betty Boothroyed was my favourite. More trivia, she used to be a tiller girl (shock horror!)