Useless Facts

They don't use bacteria at all. They are actually quite clean animals.

 

Oblongpigskinoidball just doesn't have a ring to it, does it?

 

I prefer my balloons served boneless personally but the full skeletal structure is quite fascinating.

 

Just a prolific reader and googler.

 

An acceptable excuse for being rad.

 

@Oscar Leigh - re: nuts

Yeah, I agree but I couldn’t find a way to put ‘nuts’ in context - asides from the ‘Pope’s nuts’ or something rubbish like that, thinking on...

 

Wife says ‘I’m nuts about that Charlie, we’re nuts about each other!’ - up until about ten years ago she says.

‘Charlie who...’ eggs ate era

 

snakes, actually...

 

The Great White Shark in Finding Nemo, Bruce, was named after the Great White Shark prop in Jaws, which Steven Spielberg named after Bruce Waymers, his lawyer.

 

The exhibit with the incubators where the baby chicks are hatched is the most popular one at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. The book Freakanomics said that while other areas had been believed to be more popular, they were based on survey data. The new information was determined by how frequently the flooring needed to be replaced in various areas of the museum, showing how many people actually went through a particular spot. The chick exhibit won.

 

Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington is allegedly a descendant of John Harington, the man who is widely believed to have invented the flush toilet.

 

None of us do, man.

 

The Camera Club 12:01a.m. on 1 August 1981

 

The ancient Romans fermented wine in lead pots, so many of them suffered from lead poisoning which really screws with the brain.

 

No, it was The Buggles.

 

So, I live with this chronic illness called Reactivated Mono. And every other year or so, I read up on it to see if there are any new research findings on it. This morning was that morning, and I was reading this one medical journal article that had a list of things that can reactivate one's Reactivated Mono. And the list looked something like this:

stress
insufficent sleep
poor diet
autoimmune conditions
space flight
viral infections
yadda yadda
yadda yadda

I don't know why, but it made me laugh my ass off, so I had to post it here.

 

Except "crap" actually comes from the Middle English word crappe, meaning chaff, or leavings. And while Crapper is probably the most famous plumber ever for his various inventions (including the floating ballcock we still have in most toilets), Harington beat him to the flush toilet by a little over 200 years.

 

This is incorrect. It's a common misconception, but jeez, most moose surely know the truth by now. Here is a relevant (and non-Wikipedia!) article about this very question. Short answer: Sir John Harington invented the toilet and made one for Queen Elizabeth I.

Edit: @The Dapper Hooligan beat me to it.

 

I get that reference!

 

The WWF*, which successfully sued the WWF** for trademark infringement, causing it to change its name to the WWE***, no longer stands for what it did****, although it still stands for what it always has*****, but now the initials refer to something different******

*******

Spoiler: What it all means

*Worldwide Fund for Nature
**World Wrestling Federation
***World Wrestling Entertainment
****World Wildlife Fund
*****Conservation and protecting the environment
******Which doesn't really work, because it should be the WFN, but who's counting?
*******Side note, World Taekwondo was known as the World Taekwondo Federation until June of 2017, when they got sick of the connotation of WTF (Wait Til Friday)