Useless facts

More people die each year because they put condoms over thier heads and suffocate than from shark attacks.

Apparently it's true...

 

More people die per year from being hit by a champagne cork than by poisonous spider bites.

 

There are trace amounts of drugs on every dollar bill... >.>

Jawbreakers can kill you if you put them in a microwave then attempt to puncture them XD

 

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee :dry:

 

Why was 6 afraid of 7?

Because 7 8 9 >.>

Sorry, couldn't resist with that -.-

You can shatter a diamond with a hammer.

 

Or "A pig's orgasm lasts for half an hour."

:eek: :eek: :dry:

 

:dry: :eusa_clap :roflmao:

The Sea Squirt, upon transition from the larval form to the adult form, digests its brain, cos it no longer needs it

 

The dimples on a golf ball allow it to travel further than a smooth surface ball would. And I have no idea how many dimples are on a golf ball, because not all balls are created equal.

 

The most toxic sustance known to man is Botulinum Toxin (cause of botulism and also used in Botox injections, it is 100,000 times more toxic than ricin). It is made by a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum, which is found in............... soil.

[The bacteria don't always make the toxin]

 

3rd longest word in the world: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Longest word in the world.....: (It doesn't even have a red squiggly line underneath it when typed into Microsoft Word lol!!)

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Is that, by any chance, the chemical name of a protein? Not sure which one though[hangs head in shame] In which case, you can convert the serine at the end to serinyl and basicly add any of the bits ending in -yl to the end for infinity and you still theoretically have a protein (or, more properly, a poly amino acid chain), so, theoretically, a longer word :icon_bigg

 

lol that last bit made me laugh...

ok useless fact...let's see....

I sing in the shower. lol, it's a fact, and it's completely useless to all of you. lol

 

Triops are also known as fairy shrimp. But I would never EVER eat one.

 

Let's see...

In Chemistry, water (freezing point: 0 ˚C / boiling point 100 ˚C) , whose molar mass is approximately 18 g/mol, can be written as H2O and HOH; the latter is correct because it represents the combination of one H+ (hydrogen ion with +1 charge) and one OH- (hydroxide ion with -1 charge), which balance each other out to make a neutral water molecule with a pH of 7.

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I'm sure that's pretty useless for most of you. =]

 

The average human body, if broken down into its constituent elements, (Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, iron, for instance, to name a few) would sell for approximately $4.75.

 

Dingoes don't bark.

Also, Jaguars are afraid of dogs. Even small ones.

 

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

 

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 

And apparently all 50 states are listed on the beack of the $5 bill...on top of the lincoln memorial