Useless fact of the day!

[Merlin the Elder]

(Yes, indeed ... 72 points to an inch. I still think in points and picas (12 points) doing layouts ... it happens when you're ancient. I learned the basics of the printing trade when I used to go to the Boys Club. I learned typeset printing there.)

When doing typeset printing, you would load individual letters one at a time, upside down and backwards.

[Rowan MacD]

With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.   

(I bet a few of you are considering testing this)

[Rowan MacD]

There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.

[Jack Daw at Work]

There's oatmeal in goetta to absorb all the fat, I suppose.

[Anna Iram]

*Rowen, got my pickle on the forks and I'm charging at the dog. Lot's of barking but as of yet no light
.


And my fact for the day: An ant, when intoxicated, will always fall yo  the right. Gonna try this out later today.  

[iain robb]

And my fact for the day: An ant, when intoxicated, will always fall yo  the right. Gonna try this out later today.  

It probably cost at least $1 million of our tax dollars to figure that one out ...

[Merlin the Elder]

With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.   

(I bet a few of you are considering testing this)

No thanks. I quit doing stupid s**t when I was in my 30s 40s 50s last week.

[Valiss]

Keanu Reeves gave away almost all of his earnings from the Matrix to the special effects team, turning them all into millionaires.

[iain robb]

Keanu Reeves gave away almost all of his earnings from the Matrix to the special effects team, turning them all into millionaires.

Taxes on their earnings funded government studies on drunken ants, flatulent mosquitoes and incontinent moose.


The real cashew fruit contains an irritant closely related to the toxins in poison ivy. The nut must be roasted to rid it of this toxin. This real fruit grows beneath a very tasty false fruit (false because it contains no seed) that has such a fragile skin that it cannot be shipped.

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

The current speed record for dynamic soaring R/C gliders is 498 mph.

[Valiss]

Maurice Sendak originally wanted to write a book called "Where the Wild Horses Are" but changed it to 'Wild Things' after discovering he couldn't draw horses.

[Jack Daw at Work]

My Administrative Assistant looked at my hands and insisted I rub some of her moisturizer on my finger cuticles.  It worked to my surprise.

[Anna Iram]

Can we get some pictures to verify this, Jack? 

[Jack Daw at Work]

Then, it would no longer be a useless fact.

[Valiss]

Tim Burton was originally uncomfortable with casting Christopher Walken in Batman Returns, on the basis that the actor "scared him."