Useless Facts

If you were on a game show and got to choose 1 of 3 doors that revealed a prize (2 doors hid a useless prize and 1 door hid a fantastic prize), and you choose a door, and before the selected door was opened the game show host opened one of the other doors that revealed a useless prize and allowed you to pick again if you wanted, you should always pick the other unopened door.

Not useless: Bayesian inference.

 

Or I could be reincarnated as an alien and abduct that crazy dude in your avatar. He wants to meet aliens so bad? Well, perhaps I can contact my mothership and whisk him away to the stars.

 

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

 

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," uses all 26 letters in
the alphabet.

 

So does "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz." And it does so in fewer total letters.

 

No one has ever been in an empty room.

 

I can think of a few who have. Justin Bieber, maybe.

 

?? I think the thing is that it's always got oxygen and objects and things.

 

I was just thinking of people so empty-headed that, even if they're in the room, the room is still empty. Sorry - maybe I should have made that clearer.

 

Fossilized shark teeth were thought to be dragon tongues in medieval times

 

That's what I thought. Lol yes, Justin Bieber.

 

And ammonites were devil's horns! Plus Pterosaurus, Plesiosaurs and Dinosaurs were all dragons and demons too! The only thing is some people still believe Gigantopithicus is Bigfoot. People don't understand minimum population sustainability.

 

If Bill Gates died and left his fortune to everyone in the U.S., everyone would roughly gain $240.

 

The maximum distance a 7.62 round fired from an M240B will travel with maximum arch, favorable wind, and moderate temperature is 4,200 meters. That's not counting any spallation or ricochets.

 

Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named for a god.

 

Maybe that's why Earth has such an inferiority complex.

 

We're just called "ground".

 

Your wedding ring (assuming you have one) will fit in your nostril.

 

STAT can be an acronym for "sooner than already there."

It's derived from the latin statim, but I like the acronym better.

 

A British Guiana one-cent magenta stamp was sold at auction in New York in 2014 for a record £5.6 million.

 

Terra? Isn't that kind of the name of our planet? We just called it Earth instead?

Well THAT will go over well with your significant other.

 

Um, yeah. That's what I was talking about. Earth is a word for ground and it's our planet. Booooring.

 

The day after tomorrow is called the overmorrow.

 

Malik Obama is the half-brother of Barack Obama.

 

The Jerusalem artichoke is the only vegetable native to North America.