Useless fact of today —

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Congratulations Ben, well done. 🙂

Just another useless fact – i passed today 😀

from now on i am a bachelor in history

One year to go and i’m a master

# No matter where you are in Australia you are never more than 1000 kilometers from the ocean.

#White cockatoos are the only parrots that can be sexed by eye color; females have a visible pupil while males have black irises.

# The numbers ‘172’ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

# In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, “They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.” On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

# The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin

# Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

# donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won’t.

# Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

# A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself

#The oldest weapon still in use in the American military arsenal is the Mameluke hilt sword carried by officers in the U.S. Marine Corps. The sword dates back to the Barbary Pirate Wars of 1801-1807. The sword was given to Lt. Presly O’Banen by the ruler of Tripoli for the aid rendered by the Marines in the Mediteranian Fleet

# Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with

# All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

#Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category

# The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, Hampshire, Virginia and New York.

# The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children

#When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.

# A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

# The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

# It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it’s stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it’s mouth. Then the frog uses it’s forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

How did they find our that if you stick your finger in a bull terriers a**e, it will release its vice like bite. On a personal note i can safely say ,having a dog hanging off some body part, it would be the last thing on my mind.

The woodpeckers ear is on the tip of its tongue.

It’s like the people that come up with hints for things, like the one with regard to spilling red wine…..so who was it that spilt red wine on the carpet then decided to throw white wine on it to see what would happen? :confused: or finding out that cola was good for cleaning brass!

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Sounds familiar, I think I went out with her once… 🙂

On a serious note, who on earth sets out to discover this kind of thing? Must have been an interesting discussion with the careers officer at school;
“So Smith, have you had any further thoughts on your future career ambitions?”
“Yes sir, I’d like to measure farmyard animal orgasm times.”
“Smith, you’re a bloody wierdo…”

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

The female king crab incubates as many as 400,000 young for 11 months in a brood pouch under her abdomen.

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter.

All consumption of alcohol is strictly regulated in Norway, and is only sold through state owned shops called Vinmonopolet. Nevertheless between 25 and 40 % of all alcohol consumed is either smuggled or illegally made at home.

Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.

In Bavaria, beer isn’t considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food.

If u look at the closest star to us in the sky ( god knows which one it is ? ) The light you see has taken over 7 years to get here ! At over 180000 miles per second the speed of light, our nearest star is quite some way off ?

People from the Northern states of the US are named after the Dutch. Back in colonial times, every second Dutchman was either called Jan or Kees. So when the founding fathers of towns like New Amsterdam assimilated with the English-speaking folk, they were given their actual names: YanKees.

Now this is interresting 😉 Haven’t thought about that one.

At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is 3 times the size of Texas. By comparison Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.

Hong Kong has the world’s largest double-decker tram fleet in the world

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

When opossums are playing ‘possum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The annual harvest of an entire coffee tree is required to make 1 pound of ground coffee.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds

Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to photograph Mars.

Pinocchio was made of pine

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason

It takes about 4 pounds of grapes to produce a single pound of raisins.

It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb

Every one of the southern 48 states in the USA has a town called Springfield.

Not Connecticut!

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