Pointless Facts Thread

[Griffin]

Sheep statistics - Body temperature: 100o F- 103o F, Pulse/heart rate: 70-80 beats per minute. Respiration rate: 12-20 breaths per minute, gestation: 145 days, Weight, adult sheep between 150-200lbs.

 

[Griffin]

A cat is 9% skeleton, for an elephant to be as flexible as a cat, it would have to be nearly 85% skeleton, leaving almost no room for internal organs

 

[passerby]

It used to be illegal to swim by daylight

 

[Griffin]

The USDA allows a maximum of six maggot eggs or partial carcasses in every can of canned mushrooms.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb.

 

[passerby]

When a male whale ejaculates it release 40 gallons of sperm...only 4 gallons of this goes into its mate....this is why you never drink ocean water.

 

[Griffin]

Abraham Lincon signed the legislation to create the Secret Service on April 14, 1865, the same day he was shot

 

[passerby]

The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."

 

[passerby]

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

 

[Griffin]

The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken

 

[Griffin]

The longest section in the "American Dictionary of Slang" is devoted to vomit.

 

[Griffin]

The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. Same goes for the Italian lira, which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).

 

[Griffin]

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

 

[Griffin]

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

 

[Griffin]

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers

 

[passerby]

Children grow faster in the springtime

 

[Griffin]

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

 

[Griffin]

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanastan.

 

[Griffin]

The names of the three wise monkeys are Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

 

[Griffin]

During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about US $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil

 

[Griffin]

The names of the 50 states used up just about every letter in the alphabet except the letter Q.

 

[passerby]

A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground

 

[Griffin]

Australia is home to the koala bear, the platypus, and the kangaroo, but not one active volcano or glacier. It is the only continent that lacks either one.

 

[Griffin]

The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your finger-nails

 

[Griffin]

In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.