Useless Facts

I hate to say this, but this might be useful to people who are nervous fliers. Just a thought.

 

Useful, yes, strictly speaking. Not sure it's something they would have wanted to hear, though.

 

Bone pain is considered to be the worst kind of pain.

 

Kidney stones ('bout 8 so far)

 

Apparently, breaking your collarbone is the worst one, on account of it taking the weight of your head, and all.

 

Been there, broke that. Ouchy, and it never heals right, people say. Mine has a knot.

 

Random fact: The Wachowskis' original usage for human beings in the Matrix trilogy was for the machines to be using their brains as glorified hard drives, considering our brains are thought to be able to store up to 2.5 petabytes (2,500 terabytes) of data. The studio, however, thought this concept would be too hard for audiences to understand, so they changed it to the current reason of using the bodies as energy sources. This, of course, makes no sense considering the human body needs to take in more energy to survive than it could ever produce.

 

I thought it was the tongue? It's said that if you bit off your tongue you'd die from the pain. I suspect that's utter bollocks, but I still wouldn't like to test the theory.

 

Actually you would die from massive blood loss, cause of some big arteries and veins in your tongue.

 

Pretty sure the only thing supporting the skull is the spine,
though the collar bones add a bit of extra support at the base
of the neck, so it might merit some truth to what you say.

 

Some merit!

 

In 2017, Portugese football (soccer) player made $93 million USD. That breaks down to a little more than a quarter million dollars a day.

Lest you think he's rich, it would take him (assuming a whole bunch of things like a steady paycheck, no inflation, and no more money made or spent by the target individual) slightly over one thousand five hundred years to earn as much money as Jeff Bezos' current net worth ($140.8 billion).

Ronaldo
$93,000,000/year
~$254,000/day

Jeff Bezos
Net worth ~$140,800,000,000

 

Ronaldo! He's hot.

 

This fact is not only useless, it is obscene.

 

There's rumours about a contract move to a better paying gig. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/04/football-transfer-rumours-cristiano-ronaldo-to-join-juventus-for-88m

 

So these clowns aren't satisfied with their millions, and meanwhile teachers and nurses resort to food banks to feed their children.

 

Food banks where? That's normal in anywhere I can think of for teachers and nurses.

 

The idea that rich people should take blame for having money while poor people have problems is a false guilt complex. The world is never equal and often we can't take the blame for other people's misfortune. I say people should appreciate having stuff because it's what poor people would do and I'm pretty sure they would consider things like higher contracts if they could. Because who doesn't like having more stuff? No matter what you spend it on resources give you more you can do and have.

 

Really? By Who? Doctors have said that the trigeminal nerve pain will drive you to kill yourself if you cant fix it somehow.

 

Heres a useless fact: This shit was random, and creepy as hell.

 

Will narrow it down to the most common type of pain. Most people break bones, over damaging nerves.

 

Fair enough. I would still think that a tooth pain would hurt more than a broken bone. To be fair I never broke a bone. But I had a tooth problem where the pain was making me scream and my wife was on the phone begging my doctor to give me pain medicine not some physical therapy crap like the GrumpyOldPervert party RINOs say is just as good.

 

I have bruised a bone, which hurts pretty good. Disjointed a knuckle, and boy howdy that hurt like a SOB.
Haven't had any tooth pain that could compete with either of those. No broken bones though.
Had the metal binding of a spiral notebook get pushed into my thumb to the bone, and that was not a pleasant
exp. either.

Of course I am more or less attuned to standard epedermal pain, going into the muscles, not a bone pain
aficionado.

 

Elizabethan maritime law
During Queen Elizabeth I's reign, the following was written concerning those who stole a ship from the Royal Navy:

If anye one practysed to steale awaye anye of her Majesty's shippes, the captaine was to cause him to be hanged by the heels untill his braines were beaten out against the shippe's sides, and then to be cutt down and lett fall intoe the sea.

 

Teachers and nurses are grossly underpaid pretty much everywhere. They are among the most important (I'd suggest the most important) people in society - educating our children and caring for our sick - but are paid a pittance. As for the food banks, it's happening all over the country in the UK.

I disagree. My feelings about this have nothing to do with guilt. In my view it is immoral that people who are in caring professions and do great work because they want to make other people lives better should struggle to get by, while others are rewarded with obscene amounts of money because their skill is "kicking a ball".