Post a Random Useless Fact!

<p>your mom goes to college</p>

<p>AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj.
Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.</p>

<p>CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n.
The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.</p>

<p>DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v.
To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow remove all the germs.</p>

<p>ELBONICS (el bon' iks) n.
The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.</p>

<p>FRUST (frust) n.
The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.</p>

<p>LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun) n.
Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side.</p>

<p>PEPPIER (pehp ee ay') n.
The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper.</p>

<p>PHONESIA (fo nee' zhuh) n.
The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.</p>

<p>PUPKUS (pup' kus) n.
The moist residue left on a window after a dog presses its nose to it.</p>

<p>TELECRASTINATION (tel e kras tin ay' shun) n.
The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.</p>

<p>lmao, effulgent.</p>

<p>... contains sticky rice. Sticky rice was used along with more traditional building materials to construct the Great Wall. Turns hard as rock and lasts through centuries, apparently.</p>

<p>Yum.</p>

<p>Effulgent -- I especially like "telecrastination", as I'm a habitual practitioner of just that.</p>

<p>who isn't? its really weird if someone picks up the phone after one ring-isn't it?</p>

<p>The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) has the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom. :)</p>

<p>I tracked a spotted hyena once. That's a fact.</p>

<p>I have moved 11 times.</p>

<p>wow! you must be really fat! :p</p>

<p>Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.</p>

<p>According to einstein theory, it could be that there is actually only one photon in the universe. </p>

<p>It seems that light is everywhere, but maybe it's actually just one photon moving around so quickly that it appears to be everywhere at the same time...</p>

<p>How's that, eh?</p>

<p>wrathofgod64: 72% of all statistics are made up</p>

<p>akashbansal: 28% of all statistics are not made up </p>

<p>this is a statistic. So where does it fit? In the first 72% or the second 28%.</p>

<p>It's like this paradox:
Is the following sentence true or false?
"This sentence is false."</p>

<p>it would be in the 72% seeing as both of them pulled numbers out of their asses...</p>

<p>You hear with both your eyes and ears.</p>

<p>^Actually this isn't useless but rather not a commonly known fact. It has many implications...</p>

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It's like this paradox:
Is the following sentence true or false?
"This sentence is false."

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<p>It's both (and niether).</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%F6del%27s_incompleteness_theorem%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%F6del%27s_incompleteness_theorem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>What do I win?</p>

<p>Personally, I think the quantifier switch paradoxes/fallacies are more entertaining than the incompleteness ones.</p>

<p>Nearly every very attractive girl wants to have sex with someone -
Maize&Blue22 is someone -
Nearly every very attractive girl wants to have sex with Maize&Blue22</p>

<p>Bulletproof logic :p</p>

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the U.S. is the tenth richest country in the world.

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<p>Yeah, if you use certain criteria. In most cases it is number one.</p>

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96% of candles that are purchased are by women.

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<p>The other 4% are by men FOR women...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thatwasrandom.com/random/facts.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thatwasrandom.com/random/facts.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This is a great site for random facts...</p>

<p>My first one: If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. </p>

<p>My second one: The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.</p>

<p>Just one more...SORRY!</p>

<p>Your foot is the same length as the distance between your wrist and elbow. </p>

<p>I bet everyone just put their foot against their arm...congrats!</p>