Useless Facts

The joke. You missed it.

But you are correct.

 

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

 

This is actually a useful fact, especially if you're a camel. It tells you where you should move.

 

since when can you tell a camel anything?

 

You can tell a camel anything, them listening is another story.
Just like that one who won't quit smoking no matter how much I beg...

 

How 'bout this one: The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum

 

A human could float on liquid mercury.

Tesla coils can be used to create music. They're called Zeusaphones or thoramins.

 

Your chances of living to 116? One in 12 billion.

 

Monaco's national orchestra is larger than it army.

 

The bricks used to build the foundations of the Empire State Building were manufactured in Accrington, Lancashire.

 

A principality with its priorities in the right place!

 

Not by the time I get there. Medical advances will have occurred.

 

And murder rates will have increased. Probably.

Come on, minstrel, where did that nihilistic statement come from?

 

A true useless fact.

 

Apparently squirrels talk to themselves on a regular basis. Oh, and forget where they put their acorns.

 

Why do you say that? I see the world going down in violence; people are abandoning civilian weapons, police forces are getting more effective, security is better and peaceful attitudes are increasingly popular. Plus with those medical advances the amount of people dying from violence will go down.

 

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

 

DYK that the plastic-y part of the shoelaces is called an aglet?

I've learned that from a cartoon that one of my younger cousins watched. They dedicated a whole episode just for that piece of plastic.

 

In Ancient times, people had this strange fixation on making nude male and female statues everywhere. Yes, I get it you stupid Ancient people: ladies have tits and men have balls; why did you have to shove it in my face?! >:[

Useless Fact: As someone with a history degree, I feel entitled to make fun of long-dead historical figures. What could they do to me? Haunt me?

 

We'll the Athenians had legalized man-sex on the side of marriages so there's bound to be a homoerotic motive for some of them.

 

Equally useless fact: the Vikings were also OK with gay relationships/sex, as long as you weren't on the receiving end, I don't know why but hey ho

 

Drums made of specific species of wood, and it plays a major role in the tone of the drums. Some shells are made from mixing the species.

 

If 0.001% of the world's population of the opposite sex finds you attractive, you could have a new partner a day until you die.

 

I presume this is also true of same-sex?

 

You could die and come back as a pubic hair on some guy's ball sack.