August 2010
63 posts
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clubhouse-conversations asked: Why are hurricanes given names and who started giving it to them?
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Approxmately 98 percent of software in China is...
(The Book of Useless Information)
In a standard deck of cards, the king of hearts is...
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Submitted by lovebiscuit
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The girth of the Gila monster's tail may shrink by...
(The Book of Useless Information)
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The phrase "Sold down the river" is a reference to...
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It takes three thousand cows to supply the NFL...
(The Book of Useless Information)
optimisticbox asked: Why are old spider webs called 'cob' webs.
The reason we drive on a parkway and park on a...
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75,000 teddy bears are left behind in hotels every...
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lilifer asked: why do clouds exist, hi adg
Marvel Comics once owned the rights to the word...
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Submitted by mitchjohnson
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There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh...
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Just as some people talk in their sleep, sign...
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Michelangelo died in 1564, the same year...
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While mittens were around in prehistoric times,...
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Only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms in...
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G-rated family films earn more money than any...
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Amerigo Vespucci, for whom many historians believe...
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styxandstoned-deactivated201101 asked: I think I read something about the Pacman ghosts have specific personalities? Or something? Maybe?
paulinetheconqueror asked: um, wasnt the fourth pacman ghost named sue? i'm prolly mistaken though
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The song “Respect” was made popular by a woman,...
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
(The Books of Useless Information)
onolisa-deactivated20111216 asked: How do cockroaches always end up on their backs when they're dead? Do they acrobatically flip over when their time is up and die?
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In the 16th century, gin was referred to as...
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When Mad Cow Disease caused a slump in burger...
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suterrain asked: My bro was wondering... How do birds drink?
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Spiders legs curl up when they die because they...
When humans dies and goes through rigor mortis, we don’t contort in angles because we have two sets of muscles in our arms and legs. Spiders don’t, so when they die their muscles constrict, and their legs curl up.
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Submitted by stopthatchalsea
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Domestic cats have thirty-two muscles in each ear...
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Thanks to scarsofanangel
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Antarctica gets very little snow, so why is there...
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Kool-Aid was originally marketed as Fruit Smack.
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There were once more sea lions on earth than...
(The Book of Useless Information)
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Reindeer like to eat banana.
(The Book of Useless Information)
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Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they...
(The Book of Useless Information)
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Napoleon was a big fan of suspenders; he even had...
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The female blue crab can lay up to one million...
(The Book of Useless Information)
The ruins of Troy are located in Turkey.
(The Book of Useless Information)
Any Russian who wore a beard was required to pay a...
(The Book of Useless Information)
The "You Are Here" arrow on a map is called the...
(The Book of Useless Information)
A klazomaniac is someone who feels like shouting.
(The Book of Useless Information)
MAFIA is an acronym for Morte Alla Francia Italia...
(The Book of Useless Information)
You are more likely to lose your hearing than any...
(The Book of Useless Information)
The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in...
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Submitted by thetumblrofadam
Floccinaucinihilipilification is a 29-letter word
Which means an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial. Ironically the world itself seems to be.. worthless to be known.
Submitted by spazz-out
The word 'anagram' is itself an anagram.
In the ancient Roman world, the art of anagramming was so highly revered by people of power that it was given the name “ars magna,” meaning great art. By rearranging this, you get ‘anagrams’.
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A completely blind chameleon will still take on...
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Submitted by parkerheyl
Nearly 40 percent of the internet is porn.
After porn, the next four content types are shopping (9 percent), travel (5.7), computing (4.2) and sports (4.2).
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The radiation in cell phones may be responsible...
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