Useless Facts

I used to have this exact watch, but with a different band. It was to commemorate a polar drift station, if I remember right. I stopped using it because the winding mechanism broke and then it got lost in a move. I wasn't sure if they still made them anymore.

 

To be fair, those in the clip you quoted are Hawaiian. Still find it hard to believe they asked what the recurring number on the packet was.

For those who can't be arsed checking back, the recurring number that puzzled them so was '50p'

 

I honestly have no idea what the 50p means, either. I did find it seriously odd that they were cutting chocolate bars with knife, though.

 

Really?

Okay, I'll give you a clue. If the chocolate bars had been purchased in America the mysterious number would be roughly '65c'

 

If it's the price, that could explain why we were confused about it. They usually don't have the price printed directly on the product at the factory here.

 

Nor here in fact.

 

That's it? Damn, I wish tasty chocolate was that cheap...I think the last junk chocolate I bought (had a craving for Reese's Peanut butter cups) was $1.25

ETA: I'm assuming it's the price you're talking about? I didn't watch the whole video and was distracted while watching. Sorry.

 

They're not that cheap now. Bars of chocolate here (which I hasten to add have all been reduced in size by about 30%) are about 70p now.

 

Yes, I noticed that! Aside from overall deliciousness, part of the appeal of buying Cadbury is that depending on the variety I could make them last for several days.

 

Days! If mine last minutes I've done well.

 

They're probably just theming the surprise for boys or girls.

 

The Milky Way galaxy is calculated to be between 100,000 and 120,000 light years wide.

 

The initial cloud shot out from a now erupting supervolcano (which registers 8 on the VEI scale) could easily reach into outer space.

 

The Battle of Passchendaele (August-Nov 1917) had about two-thirds as many MIA (around 42,000) as the United States had KIA (around 58,000) in its section (1955-1975) of the Vietnam War.

 

My favorite part of those 'Horder' type TV programs is how much better they make me feel about my own housekeeping skills.

 

The original Rambo II knife was destroyed in the wildfires of 2016.

 

Apparently, in Japan, it's rude to wipe your nose with a tissue in public. You're supposed to just sniff incessantly, I guess. Maybe that's not an entirely useless fact.

 

The volume of the moon is equal to that of the Pacific Ocean

 

Unfortunately no. Seems like this makes the internet rounds every so often, but:
714,000,000 cubic kilometers for the Pacific Ocean, and

21,900,000,000 for the Moon.

 

The fact that nobody cares whether or not this is true demonstrates just how useless this fact is, and therefore how well it fits into this thread!

 

Also, different organizations define the borders of oceans differently.

 

Not to two orders of magnitude.

 

Not that argument again. Yes, there is nothing more useless than a fact that isn't a fact, but....

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/...markle-engaged.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

We’re about to have a Yankee in Queen Elizabeth II’s court.