Useless Facts

Really? Damn

Well nevermind then.

 

Shakespeare has no direct descendants.

 

I found my switch selector knob for my green guitar.
It was under the couch the whole time, but it didn't
stop me playing.

 

You can't tickle yourself.

I don't know. That's what the internet told me.

 

No, the switch worked fine, was just missing
that little plastic conical piece that covers the
exposed metal end.

 

You can tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue. It's the only place.

 

Holy shit!
I tried it out. I hated it. Lol

 

and the soles of your feet

 

I'd need a machete or a power saw to get my tongue and the soles of my feet into the same zipcode. Don't think I'd be giggling anyway.

ETA: Test your nipples, you might be surprised.

 

Wait, are you telling them to try nipple to feet or tongue to nipples?

 

not necessarily

 

This is slowly turning into some odd
fan-fic of what Sally did pre-Nightmare
Before Christmas, in her down time.

 

My favorite forum so far. You guys are funny

 

The human tongue has between 3,000 to 10,000 taste buds. Each taste bud is about 0.03 millimeter in diameter and about 0.06 millimeter long. Children have the most amount of taste buds and after the age of approximately 45 years, many taste buds begin to degenerate.

Good taste can degenerate at a much younger age or indeed never be developed at all.

 

It's possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds.
While most of us are happy to slap some peanut butter between two slices of bread, scientist Dan Frost of the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany did something a little bit different with his peanut butter: He made a diamond. Frost studies the conditions of Earth's mantle and has found ways to mimic them in his lab. According to the BBC, the high pressures of the mantle can strip oxygen from carbon dioxide and leave behind the carbon to form a diamond. And since peanut butter is already rich in carbon, Frost was able to transform the nutty goodness into a shiny jewel.

 

It's possible to turn potatoes into a knife.
Also jello, foil, cardboard, and god knows what else. Some Japanese guy has done it. Another fine video by Donut Operator:

 

Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.Cats can jump surprisingly high, slip through the tightest spaces, and seemingly have nine lives. But there's one thing they can't do: taste sweet things. According to a 2007 article in Scientific American, unlike other mammals, felines can't taste sweetness due to the fact that they "lack 247 base pairs of the amino acids that make up the DNA of the Tas1r2 gene. As a result, it does not code for the proper protein … and it does not permit cats to taste sweets."

 

That's not true, I had a cat that would lick suckers like
it was no big deal. Usually the half banana half chocolate
ones that I don't think they sell anymore.

 

Ugh. I give up!

 

Don't give up. That's exactly the kind of useless fact I like to see here. I've seen cats eat ice cream, but I didn't assume it's the sweetness they were after rather than the creaminess and coldness.

 

Orcas aren't whales, but rather the largest species of dolphin.

 

There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef.For those who romanticize a burial at sea, the company Eternal Reefs offers an innovative solution. It mixes the cremated remains of a person with concrete to create a "pearl" onto which loved ones can etch personal messages, handprints or (environmentally friendly) mementos. The pearl is then encased in a "reef ball" that is dropped into the sea, where it provides a new habitat for fish and other sea life, helping encourage a vibrant ecosystem. The circle of life at work