Useless Facts

This is one I just found out: -

Dane Bowers is head Rabbi for the whole of London, and apparently Anthony Costa of Blue fame is his chief Cantor. It's strange, I always thought Anthony Costa had the weakest voice in Blue.

 

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing every letter.

 

I am sceptical that the same applies in the UK

 

Is Shadowfax a spoonerism for Fadowshax?

 

Is there such a thing as "Blue fame"?

 

Dunno, but apparently there's such a thing as a Blue Peter.

 

I think you're getting confused with "Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames" from the '60s...Georgie Fame went on to record "The Price of Fame" with Alan Price...

 

+ Mental disorders come in all different forms and degrees, not all are the same.

+ Four cups of coffees is not a good idea for when its time to go to bed.

+ I never heard of any of the things mentioned above me in this page.

+ Selfies had been a thing for at least a hundred years.

+ A clock has twelve numbers on its face. Why do we call the surface of a clock a face? I don't know, but we call it that.

+ Why did we make wolves obsessed with howling at the moon? Because it was cool, obviously!

+ Wreybies is the god of this forum. We should erect a statue in his honor.

+ Muscle tension can be caused by things like stress and anxiety.

+ Humans can't fly. Well, without the aide of machines anyway.

+ Humans need at least 8 hours of sleep. Speaking of which, I need to go to sleep now. G'nite!

 

Male platypuses are the only venomous mammal. Female platypuses are the only mammals that lay eggs. They're the hipsters of adorable species.

 

Bacteria have an internal pressure that's higher than the pressure in a car tyre.

 

If you take the word "mama" and change all four letters you get "beer"

 

No you don't.

 

You might.

 

The world's "loneliest" tree, standing in the middle of the Sahara and hundreds of miles from the closest tree, was hit by a drunk driver.

Upon retirement, a molder of Crayola crayons for over three decades announced he was color-blind.

The name "Himalayas" means house of snow.

The country with the most Japanese people other than Japan is Brazil.

 

--Wreybies is the god of this forum. We should erect a statue in his honor.

I might get banned for this, but...

 

You can't lick your own elbow.
You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

 

It is possible to do both, the former evidenced on QI and the latter on Myth Busters.

 

Wow. You would have to have a really long tongue to do the first thing.

 

Or really short arms.

 

Or short arms. On the mobile so I can't link the clip, but putting "QI licking elbow" into Youtube should bring it up.

 

I just saw couple of clips. It seems to me it's actually the great shoulder joint flexibility.

 

So perhaps it's true to say "you can't lick your elbow. But I can, because I've got great flexibility."?

Although thinking about it, I'd probably have no difficulty in licking your elbow, once we were in the same room...

 

You're not getting your tongue near my elbow.

 

I've tried this with several 4 letter words and I always got the word "beer". I also tried it with "mom" and I got "rum" by changing only two letters.

To add a new one :

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Edit : how many of you grabbed the calculator to check?

 

Mario's favorite music is opera and new wave Euro-pop. I honestly didn't know new wave Euro-pop was popular amongst plumbers.