Useless Trivia

by **jonesthecurl** on Sat May 17, 2008 5:26 pm

Oh, and: 1955, Huxley;'s first trip.

by **suggs** on Sat May 17, 2008 5:38 pm

Aldous Huxley lost a testicle as a young man in a boating accident.

by **jonesthecurl** on Sat May 17, 2008 5:47 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:Oh, and: 1955, Huxley;'s first trip.

I was a little wrong here - that was his first LSD experience. He'd taken mescaline considerably earlier.

by **The1exile** on Sat May 17, 2008 5:55 pm

C.S. Lewis drafted a further (eighth) Narnia story duboiusly named "the Infestation of the Promised Land by filth Jews" - the conspiracy theorists will tell you all about why it's been covered up so well.

by **suggs** on Sat May 17, 2008 6:56 pm

In the old Yugoslav republic, the month of March was abolished.

by **Dancing Mustard** on Sat May 17, 2008 7:09 pm

More people are killed each year by Gibbons than by Leukemia.

by **Bertros Bertros** on Sat May 17, 2008 7:12 pm

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

by **Incandenza** on Sat May 17, 2008 10:09 pm

Only 300 Corvettes were built the first year it was available (1955).

by **AndyDufresne** on Sat May 17, 2008 10:18 pm

For every 100 grams of peanut butter, the FDA allows at most, 2 rat hairs.

--Andy

by **jonesthecurl** on Sun May 18, 2008 12:31 am

More people are killed by coconuts falling on them than are killed by sharks.

by **jonesthecurl** on Sun May 18, 2008 12:33 am

I honestly saw that last one reported. If it turns out I'm wrong however, be warned I'm gonna buy a lot of coconuts with murder in mind.

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! WATCH OUT FOR COCONUTS!

by **Hitman079** on Sun May 18, 2008 3:22 am

One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water.

I was trying to convert it into liters of water per centimeter of rain over one square kilometer, but I found the math required behind it too difficult.

EDIT: In metric terms, for every 1 centimeter of rain over 2.6 square km there's 25,619,679 liters.

by **Snorri1234** on Sun May 18, 2008 2:22 pm

Dancing Mustard wrote:More people are killed each year by Gibbons than by Leukemia.

This is one of the best ones ever.

by **PLAYER57832** on Sun May 18, 2008 2:33 pm

Yesterday was the anniversary of the parking meter's patent (May 17th) ... at least according to our local news.

by **suggs** on Sun May 18, 2008 3:37 pm

PLAYER57832 wrote:Yesterday was the anniversary of the parking meter's patent (May 17th) ... at least according to our local news.

Do you by any chance own an interesting collection of shovels?

by **Napoleon Ier** on Sun May 18, 2008 3:42 pm

suggs wrote:
PLAYER57832 wrote:Yesterday was the anniversary of the parking meter's patent (May 17th) ... at least according to our local news.

Do you by any chance own an interesting collection of shovels?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dla9MQ8IaKQ&feature=related

No, I don't understand it either, they're all from Québec...but it's still funny.

by **kerntheconkerer** on Sun May 18, 2008 4:01 pm

99% of all CC'ers have no life outside CC...
o_O

by **AndrewLC** on Sun May 18, 2008 4:12 pm

sam_levi_11 wrote:following t-o-m's idea,

my birthday is august the 12th. ill be 18.

I'm 8 days older than you.

by **heavycola** on Sun May 18, 2008 4:49 pm

Bertros Bertros wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:I think it's written "St", but the name is "Saint" (hence the full stop after the contraction). Pedantically, you could say that the sign has none of the letters of the word "mackerel" in it. The name, however, does.

It is still a fascnating fact, and one of the most magnificently useless I've ever seen.

I'll eat heavycola's hat if you can find me one instance of St John's Wood, London anywhere on the internet as "Saint John's Wood". Here this should get you started - http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=f ... gle+Search

thank you bertros. jesus christ.

FACT:
123,000 rwandans are being slaughtered EVERY DAY and all you right-wing evangelical fundamenterrorist cocksuckers can think to do is argue about dubious factoids. You should all be ashamed. This thread is hereby renamed the 'stop the genocide' thread. And if you dare try to rehijack - and listen """moderator""", that includes suboptimal posts about """"keeping things on track"""" or some such NONSENSE, then you DON'T CARE ABOUT AFRICA.

DO YOU CARE ABOUT AFRICA?

by **Napoleon Ier** on Sun May 18, 2008 5:27 pm

heavycola wrote:
Bertros Bertros wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:I think it's written "St", but the name is "Saint" (hence the full stop after the contraction). Pedantically, you could say that the sign has none of the letters of the word "mackerel" in it. The name, however, does.

It is still a fascnating fact, and one of the most magnificently useless I've ever seen.

I'll eat heavycola's hat if you can find me one instance of St John's Wood, London anywhere on the internet as "Saint John's Wood". Here this should get you started - http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=f ... gle+Search

thank you bertros. jesus christ.

FACT:
123,000 rwandans are being slaughtered EVERY DAY and all you right-wing evangelical fundamenterrorist cocksuckers can think to do is argue about dubious factoids. You should all be ashamed. This thread is hereby renamed the 'stop the genocide' thread. And if you dare try to rehijack - and listen """moderator""", that includes suboptimal posts about """"keeping things on track"""" or some such NONSENSE, then you DON'T CARE ABOUT AFRICA.

DO YOU CARE ABOUT AFRICA?