Useless Facts

Well you know a trucker one now!

 

Yes! Now I do!!!

 

I can fit into my 8 year old son's clothes. Well his tee shirts and warm up jacket for soccer.

 

Are you Bethany Frankel?

 

@Lewdog , your desire for a scanty-clad ginger character in a fantasy has resulted in me creating one in my own and working out a detailed backhistory for her and now she's one of the supporting characters in the fantasy. Aren't you a happy Lewie?

 

Now just have her fall in love with a random stranger on a writer's forum.

 

Are you referring to yourself?

 

No that would be ego-testicle.

 

Yeeeeeah, no. No she does not fall in love with anyone. Not all characters need to have love interest.

Useless Fact from Me: Apparently there is a part of me that never grew up. At all.

 

The lower half? hahahaha

 

I am not. I am Aple. And I weigh more than 90lbs.

 

I'm not exactly sure what to say to this, but as you and minstrel have suggested, I shouldn't be able to.
Still, just because a fact is interesting, doesn't make it useful. I know thousands of useless facts, but they are all very interesting, to me at least.

Example: The lyrebird can imitate almost every single sound it hears because of its complex syrinx. It can make the sounds of other birds (so well, the original bird is fooled), dogs, crying, car horns, saws, camera shutters, and ring tones just to name a few.
Now, will this fact help you in everyday life? No.
Will it help you on a weekly, monthly, even yearly basis? No, probably not.
Unless you are an ornithologist, avian habitat keeper, or some kind of wilderness/animal preservation and rescue personnel, this knowledge will probably never serve you in life.
So, is this useful knowledge? I wouldn't think so, but I guess that's up to a person's interpretation.

*Side note: I know the most useless, but fascinating facts. Especially ones about animals.

 

Yes, but the thread title asks for useless facts, not useless but interesting facts.

Having said that, it doesn't ask that the facts aren't interesting... so maybe your logic is sound.

 

So, is your avatar just a very light blue-grey panel?

 

Truly useless (and probably not interesting) fact:

I have collected all the candy there is to be had this year from candy buckets in Azeroth (and Outland and Pandaria), on my banker alt in WoW.

Another fact, exactly as useless and not interesting:

I have yet to finish collecting the same exact candy on my main character.

 

Yes. Yes, it is.

 

Leave for a while, come back, and see that Link the Writer now has yet another pet orca.
Where do you keep these orcas?

Anyway, my useless facts for the day is...

The Alaskan Wood Frog freezes itself throughout the winter months. It effectively shuts down all life sustaining systems, pretty much killing itself. It has no heartbeat, no breath, nothing. Then, when the weather warms up again, it thaws and goes on as if nothing happened. The Alaskan Wood Frog: http://www.nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/wood-frog-page-2.htm

 

Today morning it was so foggy out there that the neighbor had to turn around his dog as it was barking towards the house.

( now can anyone actually use the above fact? )

 

+ Acorns hurt when you step on them.

+ Don't feed the bears. That is all.

+ History = His Story/History = Yrotsih = Y Ro Tsih = I Wrote This

+ It's still very hot in the middle of December down here in the Deep South.

+ There is no fact to be used, no statistics to study, no method of calculation to perform, no formula to walk through.

+ I have no idea why I just said the above.

+ ...

+ OH GOD, THEY'RE BEHIND YOU!!

 

Of course they're behind me. I am their leader!

 

I should've figured.

Another Useless Fact: A scene I'm writing that's toward the end of my fantasy novel might very well belong in the middle. Must resist urge...to...edit... must...keep...writing...on...

 

You just blew my god damn mind.

It's November, hun.

A useless fact from me: My cat likes to cuddle with my 5-lb dumbbell.

 

Your cat is telling you you need to work out more.

 

My cat should mind his own god damn business.

Isn't that what cats are best at, anyway?

 

Freudian slip. I must want it to be almost Christmas already.

Useless Fact: paper doesn't age well when left in iron chests for 150 years.

(Glares at papers he is processing at his volunteer job.)