Pointless Facts Thread

[Ebil Gig]

A golf ball has 360 dimples.

2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.

Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.(Wtf...?How does that happen...?)

To keep cool, Ostriches urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat.

 

[Exploding Boy]

The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip

 

[BRUTAL]

(I've hurt others by way of the toilet)

Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.

 

[Exploding Boy]

Chinese is the most spoken language in the world

 

[BRUTAL]

Approximately one out of every 55 women from Canada give birth in their car on the way to the hospital or clinic.

 

[Ebil Gig]

(I've hurt others by way of the toilet)

Well that sounds Brutal...

Yeah...I had to get that horrible pun out of my system.



By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours.

If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

An ostriches eye is bigger than its brain.

The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

We spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights.

 

[BRUTAL]

Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.

 

[spideymusprime]

The real matrix is the matrix of leadership and not the matrix

 

[Victor Von Doom]

my head itches

 

[spideymusprime]

Darth Vader is Luke's father

 

[Mister Sinister]

Goldfish have an memory span of 3 seconds.

NOT TRUE, common misconception, they actually have quite a long memory span.

 

[Superman79]

Kool-Aid was invented in Hastings, Nebraska

 

[Ebil Gig]

NOT TRUE, common misconception, they actually have quite a long memory span.

Well I didn't know, I got it off some site.

 

[Superman79]

Johnny Carson, Malcolm X, Marlon Brando, and Peter Fonda are all from Nebraska (Norfolk, Omaha, Omaha, and Lincoln respectively)

 

[NHawk19]

You cannot lick your elbow . . . .








































Having read that at some point you will now try to lick your elbow

 

[redmarvel]

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.(Wtf...?How does that happen...?)

According to Wikipedia:

In young boys, one of the most common causes of genital injury is when the toilet seat falls down while using the toilet
.
Smaller children run the risk of drowning if they fall headfirst into the toilet.

Injuries to adults include bruised buttocks, tail bones, and dislocated hips from unsuspectingly sitting on the toilet bowl rim due to failure to ensure that the toilet seat was down.

Other injuries can be caused by the feet slipping or the toilet bowl collapsing under the weight of the occupant.

Pinch injuries can also occur due to splits in plastic seats, and to the various parts of a seat in different configurations.

Older high flush cast iron cisterns have been known to detach from the wall when flushed (by pulling a chain) causing injuries to the user.

Injuries are frequently sustained by people standing on toilet seats to reach a height.

There are also instances of people slipping on a wet bathroom floor, or from a bath and concussing themselves on the fitment.

 

[Mister Sinister]

You cannot lick your elbow . . . .

It's actually VERY easy to lick your elbow. When you put your arm in a right angle, the right angle IS your elbow, albeit your interior elbow which is VERY lickable.

 

[Superman79]

The only single house state legislature is in Nebraska...they only have a Senate.

 

[Riven]

While there is no limit to how hot things can get (look at Angelina Jolie!), there is a limit to how cold they can be. This is minus 273,15 degrees centigrade (minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit) or zero degrees Kelvin: the absolute zero. Things can not get any colder than that. The reason for this is that at this temperature all kinetic motion within particles ceases. At absolute zero, matter contains no heat energy whatsoever. It is impossible to reach this temperature on earth, although scientific experiments have been conducted to reach the absolute zero as closely as possible within controlled circumstances.

 

[redmarvel]

Hubby and I will be attending a wedding on August 11th.

 

[redmarvel]

13 per cent of Canadians are age 65 or older.

The Population of Canada is over 32,270,500
The Population of Ontario is over 12,541,400
The Population of Toronto is over 4,647,960

 

[Superman79]

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a huge Nebraska Cornhusker Football fan.

 

[enterthemadness]

The opening scene of the movie ''Saving Private Ryan'' is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.

In all honor of Chuck Norris, all McDonald's in Texas have an even larger size than super-size. When ordering, just ask to be Chucksized.

 

[redmarvel]

Toronto Ranks Third In The List of The World's Most Polite Cities

Tuesday June 20, 2006

Toronto The Good.

Remember when the city was known around the world by that phrase?

Well, despite the summer of the gun, SARS, downloading, amalgamation and just about everything else you can think of, we apparently still retain some of that cachet.

At least according to a new survey.

Reader's Digest conducted a test in 35 cities across the globe to test the courtesy level of the people who lived there. And Toronto placed third overall in being the most polite.

The test researchers used to determine this rare ranking may raise a few eyebrows. They walked into public buildings 20 times to see who would hold open a door; they measured how many times store clerks said 'thanks' after a small purchase; and they dropped a folder filled with papers on a city street to see if anyone would help a stranger pick up the mess.

The result: Toronto came up with a 70 percent 'niceness' rating when all the incidents were added together.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_1348.aspx

 

[THWIP*]

A golf ball has 360 dimples.

2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.

Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.(Wtf...?How does that happen...?)

To keep cool, Ostriches urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat.

YUCK.........SPACE DANDRUFF.