Useless fact of the day!

[LadyFae]

Actor Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him.

[Rowan MacD]

Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

[RenStarr]

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

I can honestly say, I've never tried that.  But I wonder, who has?   

[Merlin the Elder]

Ian Fleming is best known for writing a dozen-plus James Bond novels.  He also wrote a children's book, that was made into a movie. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was released in film form in 1968.

[Rowan MacD]

  If you haven't read Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang do so.   
  I read the children's book after the movie came out when I was a kid.   Other than the names of some the characters,  there is very little similarity.   It's sooo much better than the Disney musical, IMHO.
   The car in the book is a sentient machine ala Knight Rider, and Professor Potts has no idea what his newly restored 'Paragon Panther' can actually do.   I just loved the insults it would fling at the driver via it's elaborate dashboard, when the operator didn't do precisely what the car wanted him to. 



~The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.


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

[RefMom3]

One of the available languages for the Illinois Dept. of Employment Security is Klingon.

[LadyFae]

Al Capone's business card said that he was a used furniture dealer.

(I actually won a free round of drinks at a bar one night by answering that as a trivia question!)

[RenStarr]

It's impossible to hum while holding/pinching your nose.

[Rani Zemirah]

It's impossible to hum while holding/pinching your nose.

And of course I had to test that!    LOL 

[LadyFae]

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

[RenStarr]

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

[Sir Ironhead]

Actually it does echo but the echo comes back on the same frequency as the original quack which is why we don't hear it.  Gotta love Mythbusters

[Rowan MacD]

~90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.

[Merlin the Elder]

~90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.

Politics? In a department store?!?

[DonaCatalina]

Most studies have shown that Humans, when confronted with a fork in the road will turn right. That is why mazes are designed with left turns.