Useless Facts

Your eyes have a blindspot your brain fills in with an imagined prediction based on the rest of the information it is receiving.

 

Not sure if this is useless or not, but in Beijing, China, each of the prefectures maintains what is basically a consulate in the capital.

And there's a restaurant on the first floor of the Szechuan office.

Szechuan food is goooood.....

 

You know how Krillin from Dragonball Z doesn't have a nose? There's an actual (very rare) medical birth defect where babies are born without a nose. They have to wear a trachea to help them breath, though.

 

For a normal prop plane it would have to be flying at the speed of sound just to fly on Mars.

 

The country of Florin does not exist.

 

Neither does the country of Squabulisbyn.

 

Good squirrelsir, are you trying to recruit me into the Insquirrelgency?

 

You're welcome to join, so long as you don't challenge my leadership! BTW, the Insquirrelgency doesn't do much other than have the occasional beer. We're not very ambitious.

 

My kind of insurgency.

 

Dire wolves from GoT actually did exist in real life.

 

*Existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf. Don't talk wrong paleontology to me, bro.

 

My dog looks like a drowned rat when he's wet.

 

I've found that promising to lick any cell phone I see on a desk is a much more effective means of keeping them put away than threatening grades.

 

Once again, this is a useFUL fact, not a useLESS fact. Please post only facts that have no conceivable use!

 

True, probably belongs in Random Thoughts.

 

I would've said, “If I see another cellphone out, I will lick it...and then put it in my pants. And you will all watch.”

 

https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipMGi5FBoNWlRBur5dIPrD1qrRvinS3-mcG0jLTf

 

Uhm I'm not sure if what you are asking for or not is what I have to offer. Go to Photobucket.com and set up a free account. There you can store photos and it gives them their own web address.

 

I just thought you were trying to win the thread with a spectacularly useless link

 

The only tree in the Sahara desert was destroyed when a drunken man in a car ran it over.

 

None of the numbers, from one to nine hundred ninety nine, have a letter A.

 

If the the universe was a googolplex meters across then there would be a strong possibility of there being exact copies of us someone out there in the universe.

 

If you scaled this up to the entire human population, it would take us almost 62 million years to drink the Atlantic dry.

Another fact.

After running late to a class, George Dantzig copied down two problems he thought were homework and solved them. The two problems were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, which later earned him his doctorate.

 

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

 

Tungsten has the highest melting point of any element. It's melting point is so high in fact that if you were throw a stone of tungsten into some fresh lava, the lava would freeze over.