Useless fact of the day!

[kcdcchef]

Ah! So they don't bother the "ladies"... 

from my experience living and working in nyc, they tend to look the other way on those performances.

[MrHyde]

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

[Valiss]

Cat whiskers are roughly as wide as their bodies so the cat can tell if they'll fit through openings by just sticking their head in them first.

[Auryn]

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

not to contradict
but I was raised in Northern Italy from the age of 1 to 10
and Cinderella is called Cenerentola

maybe Zezolla is a dialect of some part of Italy

[raevyncait]

Cat whiskers are roughly as wide as their bodies so the cat can tell if they'll fit through openings by just sticking their head in them first.

The exception to this is the Sphynx, which has whisker pads, but no real whiskers, if it is truly hairless... mine, who has a bit of fuzz on her feet and on the last 1/3 of her tail has just barely there whiskers, which are sort curled into themselves.

[Celtic Lady]

Siberian cats are supposed to cause little if any allergic reaction to those allergic to cats.

[iain robb]

Siberian cats are supposed to cause little if any allergic reaction to those allergic to cats.

Same thing with ceramic cats, too.

[Rowan MacD]

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

[Rowan MacD]

 Scholars have determined from official documents of Governor Felipe de Neve, Commandant General de la Croix and Viceroy Bucareli that the settlement now known as Los Angeles' was originally named 'El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles' (The Town of the Queen of the Angels.)

http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi03b.htm


And there is an even longer version out there:  "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"  though it is incorrect.

[Valiss]

The original TRON movie didn't win any special effects awards because the Motion Picture Academy thought they "cheated by using computers."

[Valiss]

The president sends you a letter of congratulations if you reach your 100th birthday.

[Bob of the Lake]

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards. They are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

[MrHyde]

American astronauts must be under 6 feet tall.

[Valiss]

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon. If no other pigeon is available, her own reflection in a mirror will suffice.

[BubbleWright]

Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren! Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler's son. How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in life. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one President Tyler's 15 kids, was born in 1853. He fathered Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler in 1928.