Things you don't really need to know...

[qjakal]

Well, since football season is basically over for those of us in NY, whether Jets/Giants or Bills fans, I now turn to absurd bits of trivial nonsense for comfort. I'll start with this one:

FORTY is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order.

ONE is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

There ya go...completely useless info that only fascinates those of us with too much time on our hands. I'll put up more later....sigh.

Q

 

[venray]

~There are five years in a quinquennium


~The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

(mine is way above average)


Ven

 

[qjakal]

Onwards

According to the software program Godspeed, the word GOD appears exactly 4444 times in the King James version.

Coincidence? I think so...too bad it wasn't some variation of 6's, then we'd have a hot topic.

Q

 

[Limeoutsider]

Ven- is it a good thing or a bad thing?


Marriages last 7.2 years on average in the US

 

[milagros317]

1729 is the smallest number which is the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways (12 cubed plus 1 cubed, and also 10 cubed plus 9 cubed). 😀

 

[venray]

The first letter Vanna White ever turned on the game show Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."


The record for the longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub is ninety-nine hours.



Ven

 

[qjakal]

Monopoly

Yuk...wrinkle-opoly.

The smallest number whose name uses the five vowels a, e, i, o, u (in any order) is 1005 (one thousand five).

The smallest number whose name uses the six vowels a, e, i, o, u, y (in any order) is 1025 (one thousand twenty-five).

You don't need to know this.....no one will ever ask. My football team suxxor, which is more relveant info.

Q

 

[venray]

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving.


Ven

 

[tommytikl]

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving.
Ven

I am WAY above normal 😀

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Yeah, but I'll bet my blasphemy's a hell of a lot more varied and interesting than other people's.
I have been trying to come up with more numerology...how many times Carol Burnett tugged on her ear, how many times Mike Piazza scratched his private parts while standing at the plate, but I'm kinda tired tonight LOL 🙂

 

[natural tickler]

That the average person will go through 2.3 marriages a lifetime😀

 

[venray]

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.



A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

 

[SimplyRio]

Hummingbirds can't walk

A soccer ball has 32 panels

The screwdriver was invented before the screw

The flights on a dart are made from turkey feathers 😉

Pearls melt in vinegar

A zebra is white with black stripes

 

[giantfan121262]

~The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

(mine is way above average)


Ven [/B]

Is that all?? Gee whiz, I'll take that!!

 

[giantfan121262]

Maine is the only state with one syliable.

A person never sneezes without closing his or her eyes

An ostrich eye is bigger than its brain (Lately I feel like that cuz I am so fried from work)

I'll think of some more to add.

 

[giantfan121262]

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving.


Ven [/B][/QUOTE]

I guess you never saw me sitting in traffic

 

[Limeoutsider]

J is the only letter to not be used in an abbreviation in the periodic table

 

[venray]

All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.


Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.


Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.




ven

 

[tommytikl]

The screwdriver was invented before the screw

Talk about putting the cart before the horse!😱

"Hey John what does this do?"

"Hell I don't know, screw yourself!"

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Talk about putting the cart before the horse!😱

"Hey John what does this do?"

"Hell I don't know, screw yourself!"

LMAO!

BTW--All breeds of dogs have a normal temperature of 100 to 102 degrees, with the exception of the Mexican hairless, whose temperature runs to 104 degrees.

 

[qjakal]

Hairless...

Explains why I run "hot" as well. Guess hair has some purpose, although you can't prove it by me...

Btw, a group of jellyfish is known as a "smack".

Bonus Nonsense: More than 3% of all photographs taken in the US are taken at DisneyLand or DisneyWorld.

Q

 

[sugarmouse]

iv posted most of my uselsess info on the factually speekin thred lol
erm....leonardo de vinci invented scissors

 

[JoBelle]

You're right.

I don't need to know any of that.

And you don't need to know that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

or

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969 did not make it "illegal" for "U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles"; it simply required those who had such contact to submit to a quarantine at the request of the government. If a spaceship full of little green men landed in your back yard, you would not be in violation of Title 14, Section 1211 and subject to a fine or imprisonment merely for shaking hands with your visitors or taking a tour of their spacecraft -- you would only have been subject to those penalties if you refused to comply with a subsequent government quarantine order. (Even then, the law only applied to "NASA manned and unmanned space missions," so contact with extraterrestrials who were travelled through space on their own would not have fallen under the provisions of this law.)

or

That every US president has worn glasses even though some just prefer not to be seen in them

or

You can't lick your own elbow.

I guess if you have a good friend, you can lick theirs though. 😛

Joby

 

[sugarmouse]

And you don't need to know that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit.<lol!!!!!

erm....in denmark its illegal to ride an ugly horse down a main street!

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Don't get me started...

Bamboo is technically a grass, and the banan tree ia an herb. The fig is the only tree from which we eat the flower...