Useless fact of the day!

[Merlin the Elder]

you are calling someone old Merlin?

If anyone knows old, it's me... 

[iain robb]

I feel ancient as the hills...... especially over the last couple weeks.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

It's not exactly the eyebrows and eyelashes part that sounds worst to me ...

[Rowan MacD]

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.

[Valiss]

File sharing is now a recognized religion in Sweden, and it's called ''Kopimism''.

[MrHyde]

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

[Bob of the Lake]

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

Now that's really useless--but kinda cool!

Useless fact:

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books, Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

[Ferret]

There's a sucker born every minute, wasn't said by P.T. Barnum.

Ferret

[kcdcchef]

P.T. Barnum's prized elephant Jumbo was executed in public, hung by a crane by the neck, for trampling people alive.

[Ferret]

P.T. Barnum's prized elephant Jumbo was executed in public, hung by a crane by the neck, for trampling people alive.

Jumbo got hit and killed by a train.

Ferret

[MrHyde]

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

[Ferret]

P.T. Barnum's prized elephant Jumbo was executed in public, hung by a crane by the neck, for trampling people alive.

Mary an elephant with Spark's World Famous Shows Circus was hung for killing a handler.

Ferret

[MrHyde]

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

[Valiss]

Once you've solved 5,472,730,538 games of Sudoku, you've solved 'em all.

[MrHyde]

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.

[Valiss]

The Simpsons producer's contract allows them to write the show without interference from Fox. This allows them to make fun of the network.