Author Topic: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread (Read 204647 times)

KrrKs · « **Reply #2200 on:** January 25, 2014, 08:59:59 AM »

Apparently there are some infectious cancer types.
A version carried by dogs seems to have been around for more than 11 thousand years!

original source: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/437

If you understand a bit of german and don't want to sign up at the science's site, there is an other news report here:
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/natur/hundetumor-11-000-jahre-alt-und-quicklebendig-12767506.html

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2201 on:** November 03, 2017, 10:36:44 AM »

it has been a long time since this thread has been posted in...

(fact)

newhalo123 · « **Reply #2202 on:** November 05, 2017, 07:38:10 PM »

Jimmy can't help but resurrect old ass threads. (fact)

Trim · « **Reply #2203 on:** November 07, 2017, 08:50:29 PM »

God damn, I wondered where this thread went! Allow me, ahem....

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2204 on:** November 08, 2017, 09:15:25 AM »

a quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove...

Nebula · « **Reply #2205 on:** November 08, 2017, 10:05:01 AM »

Quote from: JimmyB76 on November 08, 2017, 09:15:25 AM

a quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove...

Interesting

Trim · « **Reply #2206 on:** November 10, 2017, 03:29:45 PM »

There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2207 on:** November 10, 2017, 04:59:02 PM »

Quote from: Nebula on November 08, 2017, 10:05:01 AM

Interesting

all posts must contain a useless fact, Spamula...

our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing...

Darkthunder · « **Reply #2208 on:** November 10, 2017, 05:20:06 PM »

4 rules of working with Captain Cold...

- Make a plan
- Execute the plan
- Expect the plan to go off the rails...
- Throw away the plan

Trim · « **Reply #2209 on:** November 13, 2017, 12:39:10 AM »

1994 is as far away from 2017 as 2040 is.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2210 on:** November 15, 2017, 02:42:39 PM »

holy shit - i graduated high school in 1994 lol

now i def feel old... le sigh...

a single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds...

newhalo123 · « **Reply #2211 on:** November 16, 2017, 01:39:46 AM »

Quote from: JimmyB76 on November 15, 2017, 02:42:39 PM

holy shit - i graduated high school in 1994 lol
now i def feel old... le sigh...

a single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds...

Jesus... You graduated high school a year before I was born. You are old!

I just downloaded 8 hours of metal from bandcamp, and I have in total 87.2GB of music, with 11,705 files, give or take a few hundred for misc non-audio files.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2212 on:** November 19, 2017, 05:41:43 PM »

Mageirocophobia is the fear of cooking...

and i can attest to this... i dont cook things and stuff well at all... there usually tends to be a billow if smoke and/or a fire... i can cook toast and ramen noodles and macaroni n cheese, but all else is a disaster...
im good at ordering take-out tho lol
there are several dozen types of take-out in my section of Providence, RI (some delivery) to where i have most of their business numbers pretty much memorised...

and im very good at cleaning - someone else cook, ill do the whole clean-up... that seems fair

Trim · « **Reply #2213 on:** December 21, 2017, 05:36:19 PM »

Fucking slackers!

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2214 on:** January 04, 2018, 01:26:05 PM »

if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop...

Trim · « **Reply #2215 on:** January 15, 2018, 10:08:58 AM »

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2216 on:** January 15, 2018, 11:31:31 AM »

heh yeah i do know that - only leaned that fact tho just very recently as i had a large chunk of bone yanked out of my left foot which kept me out of work for 4 months... i have a very cool looking scar from the base of big toe halfway down the rest of my foot

i could explain about it and i have pics if youd like to see...

(tho it is all on my facebook pics also lol )

Underground is the only word in the english language that starts with 'Und' and ends with 'Und'

King Class Scout · « **Reply #2217 on:** January 16, 2018, 07:16:37 AM »

heh. now I know Jimmy's only 2 years younger than me! you still look like you're only 30, you lucky @$%& !

early christmas lights were as strong as regular household bulbs or more.

Trim · « **Reply #2218 on:** January 16, 2018, 10:49:44 PM »

Star Trek Voyager premiered 23 years ago today.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #2219 on:** March 22, 2018, 07:21:08 PM »

Cigarette butts are the most littered item at the world, with an estimated 4.5 trillion littered annually.
Each butt can take 5 to 400 years to completely break down.

this is exactly why whenever i have a smoke outside at home or work or wherever (no smoking inside my house is my rule for the house and i refuse to smoke in anyone else's house or car), when i am done smoking a cigarette, i will put it out thoroughly on the ground and rthen put the butt into my pocket and wait until i get home and then throw it away in the trash...
there is nothing more ignorant, IMO, than someone who flicks cigarette butts on the ground with no care for the earth...
IMO if you want to have bad habits, fine - live your life enjoyingly... but fucking at least clean up after yourself for consideration to others...
not to mention how disgusting and trashy it looks in any area of a yard or a parking lot with butts all around the ground...

so fucking annoying people are like they dont care...
i need a smoke now, im all riled up...

lol

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