Useless fact of the day!

[DonaCatalina]

World's Rarest gemstone is Jadeite USD $3 + Million/Carat
Until recent years jadeite has been something of a mystery mineral, but we now know of primary sources in Guatemala as well as several California occurrences of white or grayish jadeite. Boulders in which a few small freestanding crystals have been seen occur in San Benito Co., California, with additional finds in Clear Creek, between New Idria and Hernandez. All Mexican jadeite is in artifacts, from unknown sources. The record price for a single piece of jadeite jewelry was set at the November 1997 Christie's Hong Kong sale: Lot 1843, the "Doubly Fortunate" necklace of 27 approximately .5 mm jadeite beads sold for US$9.3 million

[Celtic Lady]

That is so beautiful... so stunning.

The pincers on the tailend of the earwig do not bite or pinch.

[Rowan MacD]

Cows don't bite because they have no upper front teeth.

[Merlin the Elder]

Cow pies are the result of a bowel mooovement...    So bad! 

[Rowan MacD]

  A smack on the back of your hand Merlin 

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin-

While all cheese making requires a license, Limburger cheese making requires a master cheese maker's license.

[Valiss]

A Greek taxi driver has the highest recorded mileage to date (2.9 million miles) on a Mercedes. He donated his car to the museum, and was gifted a new car.

[Valiss]

There was Russian novel published in 1999 which re-tells The Lord of The Rings from Sauron's perpective.

[Sir Ironhead]

That would be neat to read

[Valiss]

The Queen is the only person in the UK who is not required to have a driving licence in order to drive.

[Hoowil]

A giraff can lick its own ears.

A Greek taxi driver has the highest recorded mileage to date (2.9 million miles) on a Mercedes. He donated his car to the museum, and was gifted a new car.

I heard at one point that Volvo used to have a deal where if you reached 1 million miles, they'd give you a new car.

[Valiss]

George Lucas paid the entire $33 million production fee for Star Wars V himself, taking out a loan from the bank. He made his money back in three months, and Star Wars V went on to gross over half a billion dollars, making it the most successful independent film of all time.

[LadyFae]

For every person on Earth there are an estimated 200 million insects.

[Alissende]

The biomass of all the ants on earth is roughly equivalent to the biomass of all the humans on earth.

[Alissende]

There's a scientific concept called "The Red Queen Hypothesis" that was named for something said by the red queen in Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.

http://www.indiana.edu/~curtweb/Research/Red_Queen%20hyp.html

I'm full of useless information.

[Valiss]

There are 62 pieces of Lego for every person on Earth.