Post any useless facts that you know

[episodic]

Porcipines are born without quills.

 

[everman]

Banannas will ripen faster when placed in a paper bag with a ripe apple due to ethlyne produced by the apple.

 

[icejunkie]

you cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.

 

[Czar]

you can make fire with a aluminum soda can, chocolate and sunlight

 

[EpsiIon]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
My next door neighbor has three rabbits.

I was going to make a reference to the same movie:

Dogs and bees smell fear.

 

[Gibsons]

If a human had arms replaced with wings of the same length, the breastbone would have to extend 6 feet forward to contain the musculature necessary for flight.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: her209
A duck's quack doesn?t echo. Same goes for a wolf's howl.

False. A duck's quack definitely does echo, and I know this because my friend got ducks for Easter and stored them in his garage.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: cw42
i slayed a dragon.

slew is the past tense of slay.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: Czar
you can make fire with a aluminum soda can, chocolate and sunlight

McGuyver could make nuke with that, and a rubber band.

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: her209
A duck's quack doesn?t echo. Same goes for a wolf's howl.

False. A duck's quack definitely does echo, and I know this because my friend got ducks for Easter and stored them in his garage.

yep, urban legend.

snopes

 

[bret]

i am hung like a horse

 

[r6ashih]

Originally posted by: Anubis
When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola"

when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.

This is false. They do use characters to make it sound like Coca Cola, but it does not translate to bite the wax tadpole. It actualy translates into something nice about coke, but i forget.

 

[Umberger]

there are 110 ridges on the edge of a dime

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: r6ashih

Originally posted by: Anubis
When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola"

when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.

This is false. They do use characters to make it sound like Coca Cola, but it does not translate to bite the wax tadpole. It actualy translates into something nice about coke, but i forget.

This thread needs a snopes filter...

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[MikeyIs4Dcats]

it takes 9 days to make a jellybean.

 

[Landroval]

Farting in public is **forbidden** in Kiribati (I learned this in a military manual)

 

[Mucho]

Originally posted by: episodic
Porcipines are born without quills.

This one I believe

 

[yokomo]

4 pin wiring layout for a cobra mic 1- shield 2 - audio 3 - transmit 4 - recieve

 

[chrisms]

Round table's original crust pizza is made of 50% scrap and 50% fresh dough, while the pan crust is made of 100% fresh dough.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

penguins actually have a form of prostitution. males will trade shiny pebbles for sexual favors from females.

 

[sharkeeper]

Overheard a guest saying this tonight!

""This is rather disgusting. People download disgusting things like persons having sex with dogs and sh it like that. That gets sent over the airwaves with your fancy wireless card. Those waves pass through our bodies and taint us and our souls with your sinful sexual acts. The world and persons living in it will never be the same now."

 

[Kenny1234]

escape velosity = 5.95 mi/secf

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Eleventy billion old Iraqi monies are worth a dollar

 

[Nomada]

It was illegal to put caffeine in non-cola pop/soda for the last 50 some years in Canada. Was since changed a couple years ago methinks.

Milli Vanilli lip synched.

 

[TallBill]

I ate 3 packages of zebra cakes today. And a honeybun.