Useless Facts

Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.

hm, so if I find a straight banana it's a vampire?

 

William Faulkner once declined an invitation to have dinner with JFK. He reportedly said 'That's over 100 miles away, why would I go that far just to eat?'

 

The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard... A graveyard is attached to a church.

 

One of the fastest rising mental disorders, I kid you not, is loosely termed 'Social Media Disorder'. Characterized by one's compulsion to document every facet of life.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933810708464

 

Resist

 

According to my Spam folder, 11K people die from heart attacks during sex.
(IDK if that is really a fact, or just some gimmicky thing, but it sounds offiish.)

 

Sounds pretty much ideal to me...

 

Back in the late 1960's the Alice Cooper band, before Cooper went solo, got a record deal by playing their songs in Frank Zappa's front yard, without his permission. When Zappa came out to see what these kids were doing, the band was in thier late teens, early twenties I believe, they told him he could either call the cops or he could sign them onto his label. He chose the latter. And the rest is rock history.

 

That's awesome. And good it happened before the internet age, or Frank would never have gotten a quiet day's sleep again.

 

And if Frank hadn't signed them who knows if Shock Rock would've been popularized. We might not have gotten GWAR, Marilyn Manson, Skinny Puppy, nearly every Black Metal band, and Mercyful Fate/King Diamond.

 

When Arabs severed the hands of thieves as punishment for stealing, they would always sever the right hand. In addition to publicly marking the person as a thief, it would exclude him (or her) from ever being able to eat in public again, as the left hand is the "unclean" one, used for wiping, and eating with it is considered an insult to the other diners.

 

And a second theft followed by the right foot, and the third was the head wasn't it?

 

The combination of an exclamation point and a question mark is called an "interrobang."


hahaha even them have mutations haha

 

That I don't know, could be.

 

Actor, comedian and game show host Drew Carey works as a professional sports photographer under the name Brooks Parkenridge.

 

And he's a former Marine:

 

Your "ape index" is the difference between the span of your arms and your height. Most people are thought to have an ape index of one, meaning that their armspan is the same as their height, but it's believed that a positive index (armspan greater than height) is an advantage in rock climbing.

 

I bet I have a negative index... my arms are really short, and my torso really long.

This means I'm less ape-like, right? Not T-rex-ian at all, just more highly evolved than others. Right?

 

Whatever you say, O Saurian Tyrant.

 

So, in a fight, all someone would have to do was hold you at arm's length while you flail impotently?

 

Someone had better remember that the T-rex was an awesome fighter and general badass. Who needs long arms with teeth as sharp and powerful as--well. Not saying I have sharp, powerful teeth. Don't want to give away any trade secrets...

 

First world, second world, and third world did not originally refer to the economic development of countries. Instead, they referred to the political ideologies of countries during the Cold War.

First world = Capitalist, or aligned with the USA and/or NATO
Second world = Communist
Third world = "Neutral" countries

So Switzerland is a third world country.

 

Holy shit, that's accurate. By a hair, but yeah....

Cool!

 

Canada apparently has more lakes than all the other countries of the world combined. That's a lot of lakes.

Which makes me wonder why the hell lakefront property is still so damn expensive...

 

Hey, those are Canadian lakes, and they're really, really nice!