Useless fact of the day!

[Valiss]

Bayer, famous for producing aspirin, purchased prisoners at Auschwitz to test new drugs.

[MrHyde]

John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in twenty minutes

[Valiss]

Pole vaulting originated as a method of transportation in European marshes.

[Bob of the Lake]

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

[Valiss]

A blue whale's tongue is the size of and weighs more than an elephant.

[MrHyde]

In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field

[Valiss]

Johnny Ramone was a life-long Republican who thought Reagan was the greatest president in his lifetime.

[MrHyde]

The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning out the light.

[Just Randall]

I am SOOOOOO not average...

[Merlin the Elder]

I turned out the light around 8pm... it's 12:30 am now. My alarm will go off in about 3-1/2 hours so that I can go to work. How's that for useless?

[Rani Zemirah]

A snail can sleep for three years.

[MrHyde]

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

[Bob of the Lake]

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

[Valiss]

If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action for an SR-71 Blackbird was simply to accelerate and outrun the missile.

[Merlin the Elder]

If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action for an SR-71 Blackbird was simply to accelerate and outrun the missile.

The Blackbird was an awesome piece of hardware! A friend who worked for Lockheed said that all of the published stats were "conservative" to say the least. New York to London in 1 hour 55 minutes...