Useless Facts

Vsauce is amazing (Vsauce3 is also good). Speaking of which...

Our radio broadcasts have been leaking out into space for almost 100 years and since radio waves propagate at the speed of light, they are [technically] the farthest things we sent out into space at 100 light years away from Earth. Voyager 1, comparatively, is only 18.5 light hours away from Earth.

 

Rated by who?
Also I'd just like to say I have taken quite an interest in serial killers as a subject in the past.

 

The most popular baby girl names in Louisiana during 1900-1910 were probably

Catherine
Elizabeth
Ella
Grace
Jessica
Laura
Lillian
Mary

I couldn't actually find an official list, but I spent an inordinate amount of time combing over a list of the 100 most popular baby girl names in Louisiana against a list of the 1000 most popular baby girl names from 1900-1910 looking for intersections.

 

The average time for mating llamas is 89.9 minutes. The human male average is approx. 10 minutes.

Thankfully I feel kinda good cause I have passed both of those milestones and beyond.

 

(Nsfw) There was a shaved orangutan prostitute that people regularly paid to have sex with. Her name was Pony and she's safe now.

 

People are sick.

 

Bestiality is basically always rape so...

 

I'ma lighten the mood a tad here, things are getting a tad dark (I know funny coming from me).

 

Murder with war weaponry. "Light."

 

Sure it may seem extreme, but you never know when the need may arise to shoot someone
through a solid brick wall.

 

It is estimated that out of all the humans who have ever lived (100 billion people) almost half of them died from malaria.

 

In the United States, every year 2,500 left-handed people die from using equipment that was designed for right-handed people.

A single kiss can transmit 40,000 parasites and up to 250 types of bacteria.

When a new male lion takes over a pride, he kills all of the existing cubs.

 

If you had a ball and placed your finger almost a quarter of a millimeter away (0.237 mm) from its surface, that's about how far the ISS is above the Earth. The moon on the other hand would be almost 9 and a half inches away.

 

What kind of ball?

 

A little smaller than a bowling ball.

 

The new antibiotic I was prescribed for my stomach infection costs $3,400 without insurance. Yes, our health care system is messed up.

 

Your tongue is normally suctioned to your mouth when your mouth is closed. This helps take the burden off your jaw muscles to keep your mouth closed.

 

The Pacific Ocean covers so much of the Earth that if you were to dig a tunnel to get to the opposite side of the planet, you'd still end up at some part of the Pacific.

 

Not straight through the axis, but still true if you argue that (rough) spheres have "sides".

 

Maybe he is an Earth Cubed kinda guy. That would back up the 'sides' thing.

 

It was Burma in the 10th century. King Theinkho was out and about with his retinue, conducting a tour of the local area to bless the loyal oiks with his anointed presence- think of it as the ancient precursor of showing up at some godawful school for infant crack-heads, or something. It was a long hot day, and as the procession passed a local farm, the king noticed the bumper crop of large and succulent cucumbers growing. This stirred the king's appetites, and he decided that what he really needed right then was to munch on a cool, juicy cucumber or two. So the king regally strolled into the fields, plucked a prize cucumber and happily chowed down on it.

This is where Nyaung-u Sawrahan enters the story. He was the farmer who owned the field, you see. It's always important to make a dramatic entrance in a historic tale, and his entrance really does take some beating. Screaming like a banshee, he came hurtling out of his hut and (ditching the usual formalities associated with greeting royalty) promptly battered King Theinkho to death with a spade.

 

This thread's been quiet for too long, so:

There's a building in San Francisco that is-

a) on the National Register of Historic Places
and
b) currently owned by an, ahem, adult entertainment company.

I don't want to say which building or company since I don't want to get accused of advertising for them, but I thought it was pretty damn funny when I read about it. Shouldn't be too hard to google, if you need details.

 

Mammoths were still around when the Pyramids in Egypt were being built.