Random useless facts that are interesting.

[Slim]

It's one of those nights I'm bored so I'm trying to keep my mind busy by learning useless facts. Please post if you know of one as this may get interesting. I'll start with the first one.

A person has to pretend to sleep to actually fall asleep.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Watching and waiting for cute lifeguards crossing the boom, to slip and fall into the pool is never going to happen.

[crystalleaf]

Sadam Hussain and George W. Bush had the same shoe maker

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[crystalleaf]

And if you want I can give you 1373 useless facts more XD

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[crystalleaf]

Also it might take awhile as I'd have to translate them all...

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[Slim]

Also it might take awhile as I'd have to translate them all...

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That would be entertaining


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[Slim]

Everyone is born with blue eyes. I'm happy I still have my baby blue eyes [emoji3]


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[crystalleaf]

That would be entertaining


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XD

1. A Finnish It-expert lost one Finger in an accident 2008 and replaced it with a USB
2. Iceland is the most peaceful land on earth
3. The 1. of July is "Official Relocation Day" in Montreal, Canada. Almost all moves happen at that one day
4. Only makes sense when you speak German :/
5. 650 people a year need to go to the hospital because they slipped on dog poop in Paris (I just love this one [emoji23])
6. The gene for that sticky stuff in your ear is on chromosome 16
7. If the goalkeeper needs to use the toilet during a soccer match the game if paused. But not if a normal player needs to go.
8. A supermarket in Potsdam, Germany has a boat-docking station
9. Jonathan Swift, the author of "Gulliver travels" released an essay about poop in 1773 his pseudonym was Dr. Shit
10. The cracker brand TUC was named after the British "Trade Union Congress"

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[crystalleaf]

I'm sorry for misspelling and if something is unclear please let me know :)

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[Slim]

That Paris one cracks me up. That is so crazy :lol: The one random useless fact that bothered me the most two years ago was someone told me that the colors on Fruit Loops means nothing. They are all the same flavors. I made it 34 years up to that point not knowing that. I still don't know why that upset me so much.

[crystalleaf]

I know, I heard that too :o

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[Slim]

It's very much true. I haven't ate Fruit Loops since because I still feel a little betrayed. I eat the Opp! All Crunch Berries in place of that now :)

[crystalleaf]

So here are the next ten :D

11. There are 106 things on the moon left there by astronauts. 4 of them are canisters with urine.
12. The finnish word for man is "mies" (German wordplay :/)
13. One of the most bought strawberry sorts/brands (unsure how to translate) is called " Mieze (kitty) Schindler" after the wife of the botanist Otto Schindler who made these in 1925
14. The Grandson of Napoleons brother founded the FBI.
15. There is a bird with the english name "great tit"
16. In the USA there is a book called "flattened fauna" to identify run over animals.
17. The slogan "Yes we can" originated from the show Bob the builder.
18. Australia exports Camels to Saudi-Arabia...
19. Both founders of the US-Investmentbank Goldman Sachs, and Marcus Goldman and Samuel Sachs came from Franken.
20. The tennis player Sarah Großer was born a Hermaphrodite and is allowed to play as a woman.

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[crystalleaf]

I replaced them with honeypops

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[Slim]

The FBI one is interesting. That bird though. I had to google search it (under safe search) to find out it's in fact true.

[Mermaid Alea]

Here are some peacock facts:
- There are around 225 varieties of peafowl (peacocks). One of such variety is called "Buford Bronze black shoulder" in which the peacock is a beautiful black/brown color and the female is white with brown markings.
- Baby peacocks are called peachicks.
- Unlike some birds, peachicks are born fully feathered and they can fly at only 5 days old.
- Peacocks will sometimes kill snakes.
- White peafowl are not albinos - they are just another variety of peafowl. In fact, they are very common.
- Peafowl like to take dust baths to clean their feathers and keep bugs away.
- Peafowl love eating yogurt.
- There is a type of peafowl called a "progressive pied" in which the bird starts off fully or mostly colored and with each year it gets more and more white on its body until eventually it is an almost fully white bird.

[Mermaid Mia]

Quick jump in on the Paris one: they spray down the street with water most of the year so its super clean and people don't tend to pick up after themselves. Thus when everything freezes over in the winter its all ice and dog poop everywhere. I was there in both summer and winter. Summer was AMAZING and in winter i was one of those people who slipped on the dog poop....


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[Mermaid Mia]

Oh, and to contribute to fun facts: studies have shown that cows moo in different dialects. Thus a cow from California and a cow from Switzerland for example would not understand each other.


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[crystalleaf]

@ Mermaid Alea
This is amazing o.o how do you know so much about peacocks?

@ Mermaid Mia
I'm sorry that you slipped but that's pretty hilarious at the same time 😂

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[Mermaid Alea]

I am a peacock breeder, a board member of the United Peafowl Association, and the association's magazine Editor. Often I do a page called "Fast Facts" where I list random peacock facts. I really like learning random facts about them haha.

[Takahao]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

This is by far the most disturbing thing I've learned, that is also interesting.

[Slim]

Just wow

[Mermaid Lanier]

I'm sure you've heard some (or even all) of these before, but I had to share some of my favorite octopus facts.*


A lot of an octopus' neurons (bits that make up your brain) are in its tentacles, which allows them to literally have a mind of their own.*

An octopus has two tentacles that function as legs and four that work like arms.*

This is incredibly useful for Coconut octopuses (which is the correct plural term, btw.) A coconut octopus will carry around two coconut halves or shell halves in their four arms while using their two legs to run across the ocean floor. They can then hide in the shells from danger or to stalk prey.*

An octopus CAN regrow its arm, and unlike its more famous lizard counterpart, the octopus can replicate the arm perfectly.*

Octopuses are pretty squishy. In fact, their beaks are the only non-squishable part. As such, they can fit in any hole that's at least a little bigger than their beaks... which can look REALLY impressive!*

In aquariums, the aquarists are required to play games with the octopuses. They're very intelligent--thought to be the smartest of our spineless friends--and need to be kept from getting bored. A bored octopus may seek to entertain itself (maybe by playing with the plumbing), escape (they've been known to have nighttime waltzes around the aquariums), or even eat themselves (a bored cephalapod may eat its own tentacles.)*

That's not the only self-destructive habit an octopus may have. A certain species, whose name has escaped me, must detach its penis to hand to the female. It then goes off to die. And after the female gives birth to thousands of octopus babies, she then kicks the tank as well.*

But octopuses are really good at avoiding death. They are equipped with: intelligence, mimicry, sticky and chemical-fille ink, speed, and suckers on their tentacles. There are lots of clever little tools they can use to evade predators.*

[Princess Aegean]

I second needing to entertain the octopus! I heard of one climbing out of its tank and eating I believe crabs? Out of the neighboring exhibit. Also, they have three hearts. Anemones spit up their stomachs to eat their food then pull them in again. Their closest relatives are jellyfish. Sea stars have eyespots on the tip of each arm. Stingrays regrow their barbs when they lose them, but it takes two years

[Slim]

The music to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Sega Genesis was coproduce by Michael Jackson. Because he didn't like the sound quality the game system produce, he requested he wasn't to be credited.

[Dogfish]

- Hippo milk is pink
- A kangaroo nor an emu can walk backwards, and are on the Aus flag to represent moving forwards (can any Aussies verify?)
- Pigeons are the one of the few birds that recognises human faces from one another
- Dogs have learnt to mimic behaviour that humans understand, despite it being completely irrelevant to their own behaviour
- A newborn litter of puppies is sometimes known as a 'puddle'

[Amphitrite]

An elephant mother's milk changes eight times and never contains any fat.

Really early in the morning a Long time ago, a group of animal wardens/nurses/vets were desperately trying to get an orphaned baby giraffe to suckle from a bottle. At their wits' end one of the attendees announced, 'we will now try marshmallows!' He proceeded to rub the marsh over the nipple of the bottle and it worked!

[Takahao]

Whenever you think, your larynx is simultaneously vibrating those sounds and words as if you were actually speaking.

[Slim]

Regardless of your gender, your earlobes will line up with your nipples.

That fact is more entertaining telling people at the beach for obvious reason that people don't think of their actions as they are verifying this.

[Mermaid_Katyah]

This thread is awesome. I'll add a few bits that I can think of.

The plastics endings of shoe laces are called aglets.

A heard of Unicorn are called a blessing.

A herd of moose are called moose.

A baby bat is called a pup.

[Mermaid Bree]

Bananas are actually HERBS. And banana trees really aren't trees - the 'stalk' is made up of compressed leaves that haven't bloomed.

[Slim]

Holy crap! This is true :jawdrop:


Bananas are actually HERBS. And banana trees really aren't trees - the 'stalk' is made up of compressed leaves that haven't bloomed.

[Takahao]

The reason that palm trees catch on fire easily, is because they grow from the top. As it grows taller in height, the leaves at the bottom of the tree will fall off, leaving a bunch of dried fibrous leaves. So they're essentially covered in kindling. That's also why the ones that don't have the leaves fall off look funny.

[MermaidSaph]

Unless a fox is facing north when hunting, it will most likely come up empty-pawed.
(There was a study on this, but I have no idea where the link is...)

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[tommygun]

Tomato is a berry-type fruit. So there's a quote: "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

[Mermaid Joie]

This thread is awesome. I'll add a few bits that I can think of.

The plastics endings of shoe laces are called aglets.

A heard of Unicorn are called a blessing.

A herd of moose are called moose.

A baby bat is called a pup.
I went to look that unicorn thing up and this came up.
A*group of unicorns*is*called*a blessing. Twelve or more cows are*known as*a "flink." A*group*of frogs is*called*an army. A*group of rhinos is*called*a crash.
XD

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[MermaidShae]

Here's a few Useless facts that you Need to Know!!

- Women have been found to blink more often than men. We beet'm! - Women 19 blinks per second / men 11 blinks per second e


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[KikiDoodle]

My favorite useless fact...

Sphynx cats often smell like potatos.

(Mine does xD)

[The Water Phoenix]

Here's a useless fact :) We share 50% of our DNA with bananas! :)

[Slim]

Lysol was used as birth control in the 1930. It was even advertise as that back then. (This wasn't what I had in mind when I was told it removes stains)