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Useless facts. Share yours. No googling allowed.

453 replies

SeasickSteveIsMyBoyfriend · 05/06/2011 12:57

Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Its illegal for a woman to eat chocolate on a bus.

111,111 x 111,111 = 12345654321

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poshme · 07/06/2011 10:09

If you stir a wood-ants nest using a bluebell, the ants get cross and the bluebell turns pink.
Don't know why though.

TheAtomicBum · 07/06/2011 10:07

If you cut the head off a cochroach, they will live for 2 weeks before they finally die of starvation. I've never tried this myself.

TheAtomicBum · 07/06/2011 09:32

Yes, of course I was joking. I'm aware that they are half rhymes, but it is still acceptable in poetic terms to use a half-rhyme. And it was a crap poem.

I wonder if anyone's ever tried to write a serious poem about an orange?

Melly19MummyToBe · 07/06/2011 09:06
Hmm
Melly19MummyToBe · 07/06/2011 09:06

Are you taking the piss? (hmm)

If so I would just like to point out that all those words are pronounced straynge, raynge, graynge. You don't say oraynge do you? You say 'oringe'

TheAtomicBum · 07/06/2011 09:00

Nothing rhymes with orange?
How unbelievably strange.
Isn't sand organge?
Out there on the desert range.
I wonder if you could build a grange?
And then you could paint it organge.
Hmm. Nothing rhymes with oragne.
How unbelievably strange.

JetLi · 07/06/2011 08:46

Piranha fish are actually vegetarian & prefer brussel sprouts to human flesh.

Melly19MummyToBe · 07/06/2011 08:42

There isn't any other word in the english dictionary that rhymes with 'orange'.

My grandmas birthday is May 16th, mine is June 16th, and my dads is July 16th.

It's my due date today and I'm fed up!

Bathsheba · 07/06/2011 07:46

Greenland isn't called Greenland anymore. Its called Kaalalit Nunaat

ohmeohmy · 07/06/2011 07:18

cockroaches can survive the microwave and if you squash a female her eggs survive and hatch. They will rule the post apocalyptic world (Alright I made that last bit up)

faverolles · 07/06/2011 06:40

Rats can live in freezers. As long as there is something to eat (even if it isfrosty and crunchy) they will be happy and multiply, but will grow thicker fur.

Rats can chew through concrete.

Bucharest · 07/06/2011 06:19

Humans are the only living things to worry about the future. Which is why we're in the state we're in....if we just lived in the now, like animals, we'd be all fine and huggy and lentil weaving and zenny.

Oh cockroaches! You can set fire to them and they fry and then get up and walk away.

PigletJohn · 07/06/2011 00:10

did you say domestic pets?

Grin
AnyFuleKno · 07/06/2011 00:04

You can get rid of steam in the bathroom after a shower by letting the shower run cold for a minute or two.

try it..it actually works!

DoesItWearingWellies · 06/06/2011 23:47

Pompoko re your fact of humans being the only species requiring help to give birth, you've obviously never worked on a farm during lambing and calving!

Until recently (past 10 years or so?) cheese and onion crisps weren't vegetarian, but smoky bacon were! The cheese in the flavouring was made using rennet from calves stomachs.

Also, there are more than 3,500 species of cockroach, but only 5 of them are true domestic pests.

bubbleymummy · 06/06/2011 23:21

Boffin, are they supposed to be the longest word in their respective languages? Although dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is longer - it has 31 letters. Antidisestablishmentarianism only has 29 :)

Isindebetterplace · 06/06/2011 22:46

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edam · 06/06/2011 22:20

Does the German mean the same thing as the English - i.e. that you want the established Church to remain the established Church?

BoffinMum · 06/06/2011 22:15

Antidisestablishmentarianism
Donaudampfschiffelectricitatsbetriebswerk

What do these two words have in common? Grin

HeadfirstForHalos · 06/06/2011 21:55

And aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes Wink

HeadfirstForHalos · 06/06/2011 21:50

Rotavator is the longest word in English that reads the same backwards or forwards.

edam · 06/06/2011 21:36

and on that note, all the atoms that have so obligingly decided to get together to make you used to exist before you were born. Drifting through space, or forming a planet, or forming something (anything) else. We are all spacemen/women!

maighdlin · 06/06/2011 21:14

over one hundred cheesecakes were eaten in the golden girls

if all the atoms that make up the human race were squished together so that there is no empty space in the atoms the result would be the size of a sugar cube.

Jonnyfan · 06/06/2011 21:10

The main industry of Pietermaritzburg is extracting tannin from the bark of the wattle tree.

Bumperlicioso · 06/06/2011 21:07

There is a Welsh colony in Patagonia, Argentina

The hippocampus is a part of the brain, relating to memory, so named as it is the Latin for seahorse, and the cross section of the hippocampus looks like the tail of a sea horse

An experiment tested what rooms in a house men and women would look in first eg if they were buying, men care more about the living room and bedroom, women the kitchen and bathroom

That startle reflect you sometime get while falling asleep is called a myoclonic jerk