Did you know...?

[Pseudonym]

The world's first canned food factory was set up in London in 1813. The world's first can openers appeared 30 years later.

What utterly useless, but quite interesting, facts do you know? Share them now!

[thatwaslight]

bananas are a herb

[Android]

Did you know that you can open a banana with a can-opener

[AgentOrange]

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

[Pseudonym]

bananas are a herb

Really? I did know they fruit "upside down". But a herb? That's awesome! On that note...

Peanuts are actually beans.

Coffee beans are actually berries (or more accurately, the seed inside the berry).

[tibbam]

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles

[DANIEL8]

it takes round 40mins to boil an ostrich egg

if you put a frog in room temp water and start to boil it, it doesnt know the water is getting hotter until the water boils. just sits there relaxin

[Luigi]

A snail can sleep for 3 years

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

A whale's penis is called a dork

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache

Brain surgery is done with the patient still awake. The brain has no nerves therefore it has no sensation. The person is put to sleep to open the skull but after that the person wakes up to see the operation be completed

Your thumb is the same length as your nose

It's physically impossible to bob your head back and forth with your mouth open.

[rod-dog]

Although most clitorises are far smaller than most penises, they contain twice as many nerve endings as the larger, dumber male organ.

Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Your brain is more active when you sleep

Adrenaline gives you super strength: Yes, with the proper response in certain situations, you really can lift a car.

Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body: Compared to its size, the tongue is the strongest muscle. But I doubt you’ll be lifting weights with it.

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

• 800lbs squat aint nothin but a peanut
  
• The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
  
• It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
  
• One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
  
• Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
  
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
  
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
  
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
  
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
  
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

[hhhh1]

It's physically impossible to bob your head back and forth with your mouth open.

lol

[Android]

those are all absolutely useless to the average male.

If you lie on your arm until it goes to sleep and then wank, it feels like someone else is doing it for you

...errr that's what I heard :roll:

[nzmusclemonster]

[snoopy]

No word in the english dictionary rymes with orange

The proper name for a camel toe is a 'Vaginal cleft'

The proper name for 'short man's syndrome' is 'Napolean syndrome' as Napolean Bonepart was 5'3 but his private army of personal body guards assigned to gaurd his life were selected on height and weight, the minimum height 6'0 and weight 90kg's... So he wore a big top hat and heeled boots to compensate and was very angry.

A sloth can run 4 meters in a minute

A cat has four toes on the back foot and five on the front foot

A shark's teeth can repeatedly grow back, and some have more than one row of complete teeth

[thatwaslight]

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him.

The average human body contains enough:- Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank

a blue whale requires 2 million calories a day

1 billion seconds is about 32 years

Say you have two objects that are a set distance apart from each other. You can, theoretically, push them closer to each other by half the distance over and over without them ever touching.

[vracula]

It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000.

[Dubble_D]

It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000.

Youtube gets 60 hours of footage a min uploaded (1 hour a second). Or something along those lines..

[Diab0lic]

Of all the cells in your body, less than 10% are human. Gut bacterial cells out number our own by 10 times...

The largest star "VYCanis Majoris" is so big that if placed where the sun is, all 8 solar system planet orbits would fit inside it

Ignoring the pressure and lack of air, if you were ejected from a spaceship with no space suit on, it would take you about 3 days to freeze to death. Although space is -270C, because there is no air to cause convectional cooling, you can only cool by radiation which is very slow.

The earth gains about 40,000 tonnes of weight per year due to falling dust and rocks from space

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Will post some more later

[AgentOrange]

The earth gains about 40,000 tonnes of weight per year due to falling dust and rocks from space

[Diab0lic]

The earth gains about 40,000 tonnes of weight per year due to falling dust and rocks from space

Are you claiming BS on that fact? Did mythbusters weigh the earth twice a year apart?

Maybe it isn't 40k tonnes but the meteorites and dust particles that do hit earth don't escape again, even if they are vapourised...

EDIT:

Check it

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/life.html

"about 40,000 tons of dust particles from comets and asteroids fall on Earth every year."

"Every second, a billion comet particles of the size to be collected by Stardust (probe) fall naturally to Earth. More particles of comet dust fall on your front yard every year than the Stardust mission will return to Earth."

[DANIEL8]

The earth gains about 40,000 tonnes of weight per year due to falling dust and rocks from space

Are you claiming BS on that fact? Did mythbusters weigh the earth twice a year apart?

Maybe it isn't 40k tonnes but the meteorites and dust particles that do hit earth don't escape again, even if they are vapourised...

but who keeps an eye on how much stuff falls onto the earth from space, collects it all then weighs it

[Diab0lic]

Are you claiming BS on that fact? Did mythbusters weigh the earth twice a year apart?

Maybe it isn't 40k tonnes but the meteorites and dust particles that do hit earth don't escape again, even if they are vapourised...

but who keeps an eye on how much stuff falls onto the earth from space, collects it all then weighs it

NASA lol

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/life.html

"about 40,000 tons of dust particles from comets and asteroids fall on Earth every year."

"Every second, a billion comet particles of the size to be collected by Stardust (probe) fall naturally to Earth. More particles of comet dust fall on your front yard every year than the Stardust mission will return to Earth."

[thatwaslight]

[Diab0lic]

Mirin deep field gif

This is also pretty damn cool

http://htwins.net/scale2/

[Yenegh]

Did you know that you can open a banana with a can-opener

really? :-s