Useless Facts

The mayor of South Bend, Indiana and Democrat running in 2020, Pete Buttigieg, learned to speak Norwegian when he'd decided that he wanted to read the work of Norwegian novelist Erlend Loe in the original language.

 

This doggie was the Mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota from 2014 to 2018

 

Longest living person confirmed here,



I hope I don't live that long congratulations to her!

 

The formal term for a racial/ethnic slur is an ethnophaulism :

 

Televisions have decreased 97% in price since 1998. Over the same period, general inflation for goods and services increased 56%.

Source: https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-or-century/

 

sperm whales don't have teeth in their upper jaw... just holes for the teeth on their lower jaw to fit in to

 

I will have to research that. I don't believe it.

 

Who is Erlend Loe?

 

OMG, funny!

 

Very debatable.

 

Everything is.

Global Burden of Disease study examined 188 countries and this was their result.

 

There are no Major League Baseball players this season who played in the 20th century.

 

• It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

 

For me? Yes. For everyone? No.
(Saw it done in a video a couple of years ago or something.)

 

That's wild. I'm not a sports fan, but I remember when Nolan Ryan retired at 46. He was old, but I didn't know he was that old by the standards of the game (assuming you're meaning "played" as "played in MLB").

 

Someone told that to Tiny Bulcher in one Westlake's novels. Then Tiny showed him how he can do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dortmunder

 

Maternity package 2019 has been released.

This is what every new mother gets before giving birth in Finland this year.

https://www.kela.fi/web/en/maternity-package-2019

That colourful cardboard box will be the first bed of many Finns this year.

The habit of giving this kind of package is now 81 years old in Finland.

Unboxing 2019 package.

 

Wow, that's...

...more than enough to convince me to never have* a baby. How many years does that provide for?

*as much as a father has one.

 

It's up to parents how much stuff they want to get.

That package is good start for first 9-12 months. And in Finland you can find same kind of stuff from earlier years maternity packet with very, very cheap prices from second hand shops.

 

Hmm, I'd be hoping for a minimum of 16 years supplies, including childcare, before I'd even think about it.

Whole deal is immoral anyway, I'll pass.

 

Evidence from the early 2000's, so you know it wasn't CG.

 

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.

 

If you smack silly putty hard enough it shatters like glass

 

The Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace, has decided to punish gay sex and adultery with death by stoning and theft with amputation. Those of us in the civilized world forget sometimes there are still cultures like this out there.

 

Well...