Useless Facts

The human eye is virtually identical to the eye of the octopus, the squid and the sting ray.

 

Creepy!

 

I love the fact that you react to yourself. It is kinda cute.


Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

 

You learn to do that when no one else does.

 

I do, but I just don't tell anyone. I am sorry you have to go the extra mile, please don't be sad. I like it when you are happy.

 

With your arms outstretched, if you were to measure from finger tip to fingertip it would be equal to how tall you are.

 

I'm Australian, but I don't like Vegemite.

 

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

 

NASA’s Logo Was Hated by NASA Vets

 

The International Space Station moves so quickly that if you fired a rifle bullet from one end of a football field, the International Space Station could cross the length of the field before the bullet traveled the first 10 yards.

 

Cool thought, but Wikipedia says no:

"The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a name for both females and males in the 1881 census of England, and was occasionally used as a diminutive for the Welsh Gwendolyn."

However, Peter Pan isn't unrelated:

"... its popularity in Britain as a girl's name is attributed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie"

 

Warren was a "keeper of rabbits" apparently.

Now that likely qualifies as a useless fact unless your name is Warren, and even then, the above can be easily dismissed as jiberish no matter what your name is.

All is well.

 

I liked your point of consideration. *Well appreciated*

 

Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

In a lifetime 22 workmen will have examined the contents of your dirty linen basket.

 

I am never shaking hands with people ever again.

 

- Speaking of Peter Pan, the author's mother forced him to dress up and act like his dead little brother while he was growing up.

Also...

- George Washington hated his fake teeth because they caused him pain. He hated them so much that he once even begged to not wear his for an important event (I think it was a painting?)

- George Washington died because he was out in the rain all day, then went inside to have a bite to eat. This lowered his immune system so when he got some type of throat/respiratory infection...

- His doctors had no idea how to cure him. They bled him a lot, induced vomiting, and had him drink a concoction that made his throat dry up. The final moments of the first U.S. president was not peaceful at all. So that sketching of him peacefully dead in his bed surrounded by friends and loved ones? Yeah, likely didn't happen. Methinks it was done so the poor shmucks had a way out.

- During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world averted a nuclear war not just because of John F. Kennedy, but a Russian submarine officer who -- while deliberating whether or not to basically start the nuclear war -- decided not to. So we have him to thank for not living in an irradiated hellhole today.

- Admiral Yin of Ancient Korean times basically single-handily saved the country from the Japanese incursion. This despite Korean politics basically doing everything in their powers to make his heroism difficult.

- At the end of a 10-year siege of a Buddhist temple, Oda Nobunaga decided to light the hill on which it stood and the temple on fire, killing all within. Hideyoshi and the others were appalled at this horrific act.

- If stories are true, when Hitler was a 10-year-old boy, he fell into a river and very nearly drown had a priest not found him in time to scoop him out.

- Salah al-Din of the Crusades almost ate poisoned cake gifted to him by the Hassassins of the time.

 

Wow, this implies that either women masturbate more than men, or wash their hands less. Or both, I suppose. Not what I would have expected.

 

I think it is that women out number men at a minimum 2-1. So it is possibly has to do
with the simple fact that there are far more women than men, but that just makes this
whole thing basically a numbers game. (People are the most disgusting animals on the planet.)

 

The three ellipses seen in the logo for Toyota represent three hearts: the heart of the customer, the heart of the product, and the heart of progress in the field of technology.

 

(Vomits) I'm sorry I'm quite sensitive to large doses of marketing drivel.

 

Somewhere on the planet – no matter what the time of day or the time of year and no matter what the weather – you will always be able to find 1 pair of points, each on the exact opposite side of the Earth from the other, which have the exact same temperature and barometric pressure.

 

@Simpson17866 Did you watch the new episode from Vsauce, titled Fixed Points?

 

YES