Useless facts!

[AngryGoose]

The Galapagos tortoise became endangered because the sailors shipping animals back to the UK ran out of food and decided to eat one of the animals... After eating the tortoise they lost control and ate all of them because they were so delicious.... Several attempts were made to bring them back to the UK but the rumours of their delicious meat caused every attempt to fail and the tortoise became endangered because of the sheer amount that were eaten trying to transport them back to the UK

 

[MatoskA]

"Spoonfeed” is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

 

[MatoskA]

Tibbles the cat is the only known living being to single handedly send an entire species extinct

True. But Tibbles can fly too........... when flung.

 

[Valkiria]

A useless space fact for us but useful for the finance team, the cost of an entire NASA space suit is 12 million dollars!

 

[AngryGoose]

NASA spent millions developing a pen that could write in space, the Soviets just used a pencil

 

[MatoskA]

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with “MONTH.”

 

[MrMc87]

If ever try to get away from a kangaroo get behind them because the cannot hop backwards

 

[MatoskA]

The “dot” over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

 

[MatoskA]

Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano.

 

[MatoskA]

An Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.

 

[MatoskA]

Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital?

 

[Valkiria]

Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital?

When two fight, the third wins.

 

[MatoskA]

In 2005 the word ‘mate’ was banned in the Australian Federal Parliament. The ban was revoked within 24 hours after people said it was ridiculous.

 

[BruceD77]

bumblebees are a class of honey maker bees that do not have barbed stingers that rip out, so they can live to sting another day

 

[justadsmguy]

I realize this is US based, but a wood 2x4 is neither 2 inches thick nor 4 inches wide, but rather 1 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches.

To make matters more confusing a metal 2x4, is 1 5/8 inches by 3 5/8 inches.

 

[MatoskA]

You can buy eel flavoured ice cream in Japan. ​

 

[BruceD77]

you can find hidden valley ranch ice cream at Wally

 

[Valkiria]

Actually, you can drink cyan potassium as much as you want. Once.

 

[Jarod Mason]

The cold-blooded version of hibernation is called brumation.

 

[MatoskA]

A tiger's skin still displays its stripes if you shave away the fur. Leopards are the same way with their spots. So if you shaved a tiger, it would still be a) stripey and b) miffed.

 

[AngryGoose]

Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano.

Good, we get wild fires enough as it is... Last thing we need is fucking magma spewing out of the ground

 

[Taopony]

Chuck Norris doesn't mow his lawn, he dares his grass to grow

 

[AngryGoose]

Adam West (batman) used to watch burt ward (Robin) sign women's autographs with his bat ink... He was watching him have sex with chicks

 

[RezErection247]

You can't unfuck.

 

[AngryGoose]

The only way to get a lucky rabbit's foot is to find it in a rabbit trap.... Sometimes rabbit traps were so powerful that it would completely sever the rabbits leg leaving nothing but a foot behind and the rabbit was deemed a lucky rabit and therefore so was it's foot but in reality the "lucky rabbit" would die slowly from blood loss or infection

 

[Valkiria]

Near the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a huge cloud of ethyl alcohol. If liquefied, its volume would be 10,000 times the volume of Earth. But to get there, with today's technologies, we would need millions of years of travel. So sad for all the drunkards.

 

[Valkiria]

To match the energy the Sun produces for every second, you would need to light 100 billion tons of dynamite every second. Roughly, it means , that every second the Sun produces more energy, than the whole humanity produced throughout the whole history of its existence - tens of thousands years.
The uselessness of this fact comes from the reality, that we have to pay a shitload of money for electricity, because only an insignificant part of that energy comes to the Earth.

 

[trainrails]

coffee is good!

 

[ZPLS7171]

When some says "hung like a horse", its not that great if you compare average penis size by weight of a horse to average weight of a human male, that would equal about 2.1 inches in length.

 

[Longrider176988]

There are 116 grooves on the outside edge of a US dime. 117 on a quarter.