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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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Suncottage · 08/06/2011 20:15

Legally only pregnant women are allowed to pee in the street.

Feel free - fill yer boots! Smile

rockinhippy · 08/06/2011 20:34

Ooo, the glowing scorpions reminded me of another FRESH prawns also glow in the dark :) -

I discovered this on once coming home late from a drunken night out - to an eerie glow from my Kitchen pin pointed to my then spoilt and bloody ungrateful cats bowlBlush - turned out to be the prawns - on mentioning it to a Chines friend whose family owned restaurants - its how you tell if they are very fresh :)

rockinhippy · 08/06/2011 20:41

if you ask anyone the following 3 sums -

4+2=

3+3=

5+1 =

& then ask them to name a vegetable - they will answer either Carrot, Brocolli or Potato :)

jbcbj · 08/06/2011 20:46

ooh, love the metaphysical discussion!

if the sun collapsed to 3km diameter it would be a black hole. we'd still orbit at the same distance though (would just be cold and dark...)

the area just above the surface of the sun (the corona) is much, much hotter than the surface of the sun itself.

light bulb filaments are a similar temperature to the surface of the sun - you can tell this because the colour is about the same.

Suncottage · 08/06/2011 21:14

A man a plan a canal Panama! is a palindrome except for the exclamation point.

Suncottage · 08/06/2011 21:17

When you next get a 'gummed' gluey sealed envelope. Open it in total darkness you will see a shower of brilliant lights. Open it slowly.

Something to do with electrons.

iEmbarassedMyself · 08/06/2011 21:28

^"An erect penis is the same length as the very start of the hand to the tip of his middle finger."

Thanks for that loopylou6

So has anyone else on here measured their own hand to see how big their cock would be if they were a man?

Just me then . . .

I got SEVEN inches! < swaggers >^
I did it too, but I'm only 5 and a half inches.
Small fingers Blush

BerylOfLaughs · 08/06/2011 21:39

The youngest ever recorded mother was 5yrs old when she gave birth.

Desperately sad when you think about it.

BalloonSlayer · 08/06/2011 21:42

< kicks sand in IEmbarrassedMyself's face >

Suncottage · 08/06/2011 22:13

Sodium hypochlorite (bleach) mixed with brake fluid makes lots of smoke.

Don't try this at home.

startail · 09/06/2011 01:13

Sheep cough like humans.
They sneeze like humans too, I saw one do it. She was kneed deep in snow and she went "bachoo!" and half hopped out of the snow just as a person might tense up when they sneeze. She looked very funny.

HibernoCaledonian · 09/06/2011 09:53

setara - the fear of long words is hippopotomonstresesquipedaliophobia.

vesuvia · 09/06/2011 11:30

The only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions to two sciences is Marie Curie (physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911).

PigletJohn · 09/06/2011 11:35

The woman who discovered Pulsars didn't receive a Nobel prize.

SeymoreButts · 09/06/2011 12:02

Suncottage the same thing happens with the paper packets big shredded wheat come in! There was a period where I had to set off for work at 4am, I used to eat my breakfast in semi darkness to avoid waking everyone else up!

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 09/06/2011 12:24

Seven inches of luuurve, baby.

But then I'm 5' 10" so probably just rank as 'in proportion' rather than 'wowser'.

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 09/06/2011 13:00

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PigletJohn · 09/06/2011 13:03

Pie-ella?

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 09/06/2011 13:04

Grin at Brianella.

Stevenella? (sounds like food poisoning)
Stuartina?
Andrewella?
Benellla?

PigletJohn · 09/06/2011 13:06

The Nobel prize for discovering Pulsars was given to two men who didn't.

CoteDAzur · 09/06/2011 18:58

TheAtomicBum - You are right. I looked it up just now and I was thinking of neutron stars, not black holes.

JetLi · 10/06/2011 14:45

If a whelk were the size of a person, its penis would be 7 feet in length.

Idratherbemuckingout · 10/06/2011 19:20

The stuff you use for horses to make their hooves grow is Cornucrescine. It makes hair grow too. I really want to try this on a bald man, but as it is greeny black, and smells of liquorice, no-one has let me yet.

CoteDAzur · 10/06/2011 19:32

George W Bush's heart rate at rest is 35 bpm.

(Why do so many people still think he is human?)

kaid100 · 22/06/2011 11:53

People in other countries, when asked to provide useless facts, will mention that in the United Kingdom you need a licence to own a television.

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