Useless fact of the day!

[MrHyde]

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

[Captain Teague]

A duck's quack does not echo, and scientists have no idea why.

Deja Vu? 

[Merlin the Elder]

Deja Vu? 

(*** he's getting old, LD ***) 

[MrHyde]

The Super Soaker was invented by a nuclear engineer out of a PVC pipe and Coke bottle



Lonnie Johnson first sold the idea to Lamari by firing it inside their Philadelphia offices. He was then introduced to Hasbro — awesomeness has ensued ever since.

[Archer]

Useless facts,  of the day . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6QNzH4x1rY

[MrHyde]

Bag-pipes were invented in Persia, not Scotland



"It was most likely a rather crude instrument comprised of reeds stuck into a goatskin bag. As civilization spread throughout the Middle East and into the Mediterranean lands, the people brought along their music."

[kcdcchef]

when sugar first starts boiling it looks exactly like boiling water.

[Rowan MacD]

  The loudest burp on record was 107.1 decibels.  Record set in 2008 before a live audience.

[Merlin the Elder]

  The loudest burp on record was 107.1 decibels.  Record set in 2008 before a live audience.

...they never heard me in my prime...it may have been before SPL meters were invented....

[Archer]

Robert Mitchum was released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana possession there.

The story goes:  In the fall of 1948, Mitchum, the star of classics such as Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter, was smoking a joint at a small party in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles when detectives burst in and arrested him. Mitchum reportedly said at the time, "Well, this is the bitter end of everything—my career, my marriage, everything." In fact, it wasn't really that bad. Mitchum was separated from his wife Dorothy at the time, but the two reconciled when she returned to support him through the scandal. The public didn't mind much either; Rachel and the Stranger, the first movie released after his troubles, was a box-office hit.

There is some reason to believe that Mitchum's arrest was less than fair and designed to bring publicity to the Los Angeles Police Department's anti-drug efforts. Although high-priced studio lawyers questioned irregularities in the case, it was later agreed that Mitchum would accept 60 days in jail and several years' probation.

Mitchum died in July 1997.


                                         
                                                       One got a pardon (no time served) and the other, no time served but he wrote some interesting letters . . .



More on these useless facts of the day (larger view and other Hoover letters) ?

  http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2011/04/j-edgar-hoovers-saucer-crash-secrets-by.html

[MrHyde]

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

[Valiss]

The current head of the Korean imperial dynasty (and de facto Emperor of Korea) works as a general manager in a department store.

[MrHyde]

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

[Archer]

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

lol, that one is pretty useless.

  To avoid the nine days wait, shall we just go ahead and squash them flat then, put them on the fast train . . . ?

           

[Merlin the Elder]

Heheh!! I gotta tell you, Archer...between you and Hyde, I've acquired a life-time of useless information! LOL! You've got too damned much time on your hands....