Useless fact of the day!

[KeeperoftheBar]

Pulp Fiction was right.  A Quarter Pounder with Cheese is called a Royale with Cheese in Paris.
They also have a Royale with Bacon.

[Jack Daw at Work]

What kind of bacon - Canadian/British or American?

[KeeperoftheBar]

What kind of bacon - Canadian/British or American?

I don't know, probably American but I didn't go in.  I just say the ads through the window. 

[Rowan MacD]

  The first cat to ride in an airship (a dirigible named America) was 'Kiddo' a grey tabby, in 1910. 
   Though the trip across the Atlantic  was not completed, he is still considered to be the first pet to get airborn.

He did not like it.

The America carried radio equipment, the first aircraft so equipped, and apparently the historic first, in-flight radio message — to a secretary back on land — read:
Roy, come and get this goddamn cat!

[Valiss]

 Twix gets its name from a combination of "Twin Sticks".

[Rowan MacD]

Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

[Rowan MacD]

No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.

[Rowan MacD]

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

[Merlin the Elder]

I enjoy reading these useless tidbits, but not all are facts...for the record.

No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.

Not quite accurate, although based on some fact.  From the US Government Patent Office, 706.03(a):

"A rejection on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, involving perpetual motion. A rejection under 35 U.S.C. 101 for lack of utility should not be based on grounds that the invention is frivolous, fraudulent or against public policy. See Juicy Whip Inc. v. Orange Bang Inc., 185 F.3d 1364, 1367-68, 51 USPQ2d 1700, 1702-03 (Fed. Cir. 1999) ("[Y]ears ago courts invalidated patents on gambling devices on the ground that they were immoral., but that is no longer the law.Congress never intended that the patent laws should displace the police powers of the States, meaning by that term those powers by which the health, good order, peace and general welfare of the community are promoted.we find no basis in section 101 to hold that inventions can be ruled unpatentable for lack of utility simply because they have the capacity to fool some members of the public."). The statutory basis for this rejection is 35 U.S.C. 101. See MPEP § 2107 for guidelines governing rejections for lack of utility. See MPEP § 2107.01 - § 2107.03 for legal precedent governing the utility requirement."

[Valiss]

Aerosmith made more money from their Guitar Hero game than any of their albums.

[Rowan MacD]

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

[Captain Teague]

And here I thought army tanks were bad. Read somewhere that they get 3 gals to the mile. 

[Merlin the Elder]

That's why they don't generally take tanks on road trips...

[Lady Kett]

That's why they don't generally take tanks on road trips...

Only odyssey's? (bah dah bing)

[Merlin the Elder]

Homer, the Odyssey, gets about 25 mpg normally...and unlike a tank, it's comfy and has a beer cooler...