Shadowrun Pub
General => General => Topic started by: BornKrazi on May 07, 2007, 08:20:55 PM
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So my mom tells me all the time that I'm full of useless information. So I was thinking about starting a thread where everyone can post their useless information. You can post as many or as few as you want. I'll start, and I'll probably add at least one a day. But beware, if you post something as a fact, be ready to back it up if someone tries to dispute it. I suggest posting a link or something of that nature showing where you got the information.
Fact: Did you know there is a $100,000 bill featuring a portrait of Woodrow Wilson. It was printed in 1934 and never placed in circulation. This note cannot be legally held by a currency note collector.
Proof: http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/5/42/1359 (http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/5/42/1359)
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It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
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Your butt contains the largest muscle in your body- the gluteus maximus.
(two for the price of one!)
Your brain is not a muscle. Of all the other structures in the body, it most closely resembles fat.
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The first person to ever survive the fall over Niagara Falls was in 1901 when Annie Edson Taylor, a 43 year-old widowed school teacher from Bay City, Michigan, survived the fall in a 260 pound oak barrel.
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A big mac is more healthy for you than a similar burger at a fancy resteraunt.
-kv
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The elephant is the only animal that has four knees...
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Cats walk with both left legs first, then both right legs. The only other animals to do so are camels and giraffes.
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The largest organ on the human body - any body - is the skin.
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here is probaby some information will surpass all of your for now
i have german and irish blood as well as others running through my viens
this is the useless information thread right
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Yes it is Useless Information thread ;)
Pioneer 11's speed going past Jupiter was over 107,000 miles (172,163 km) per hour, the fastest speed ever traveled by a human-made object.
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The caliber, the common usage measurement for firearms, is based on the old system of english inches.
-kv
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In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
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I just nominated Gabe to carry on the movie game thread, even though I don't think he reads it.
-kv
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The longest alligator on record was captured in Louisiana and taped a whopping 19 feet 2 inches. (North American Alligator)
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There are two living alligator species: the American Alligator (and the Chinese Alligator. The eyes of a large alligator will glow red when a light is shined on them those of a smaller one will glow green.
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The largest crocodile ever on record is the fossil record found in Brazil of a prehistoric crocodile that was 46 feet long.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, in ceremonies opening the New York World's Fair in April 1939.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only US president to be elected more than twice. He was elected president four times.
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Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.
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Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number.
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Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
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When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
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There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
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A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
is a palindrome. If you reverse the letters (read right to left) you get
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
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In 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
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A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.
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Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. . .
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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If you wish to kill a person using calciumcarbonate, use it as a bludgeon.
That requires less of the stuff than poisoning him would.
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A jumbo jet needs 4,000 gallons of fuel just to take off.
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King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.
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Lou Gehrig was the first baseball player to appear on a box of Wheaties.
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The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
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Mosquitos have 47 teeth...
Richard Millhouse Nixon is the only president, whose name contain all the necessary letters to spell CRIMINAL...
Fun stuff.. :)
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When cooked, some green vegetables lose the magnesium atom in their chlorophyll molecules, which causes the green color to fade.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
(*and, since someone else did two)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
King of Spades - King David
King of Hearts - Charlemagne
King of Clubs - Alexander the Great
King of Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
<snip>
King of Diamonds - Julius Caesar
Julius Gaius Caesar was never King.
He was offered the position, but knew how much the romans hated kings (unsurprisigly, he was one), and chose to decline it. Instead he took the titles of Imperator & Dictator - for life.
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Just a (semi-)relevant quote from an L5R forum:
Also consider that 'conditions' like having a katana in your hand, should be the only way you fight. L5r is not a game where you fight naked, tied up, in the dark. Save that for shadowrun.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071120/ap_on_re_eu/birth_of_rome
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chickens don't have lips
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"Uff Da" is the norweigan equivalent of "oh, shit!" minus the swearing.
-kv
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Brooke Shields farted once on the set of "The Blue Lagoon"
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http://elpasochat.org/forums/printthread.php?tid=2277
Halle Berry farted more than once on the set of Catwoman.
and for a second math trivia:
142857
multiply that by any number from 1 to 6 and you will still have the same digits, only in a different order.
142857 * 2 = 285714
142857 * 3 = 428571
142857 * 4 = 571428
142857 * 5 = 714285
142857 * 6 = 857142
-RuskiFace the pirate
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word of the year appearantly is "w00t" (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-12-12T153114Z_01_N12562781_RTRUKOC_0_US-LANGUAGE.xml).
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And... you can get the Nobel Peace Prize for films about global warming.
-kv
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I also heard the latest recipient was almost eaten by manbearpig
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The First Lady of Nigeria recently slapped and official for accidentally introducing her as the President's mistress. The government seized the tapes of the incident and destroyed them.
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Depressingly, they are about to turn the QEII into a hotel off Dubai. I always wanted to sail on her but you couldn't pay me to visit Dubai.
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Interesting little know person: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6145300
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she should have put her software on a PC instead of a MAC. then she wouldn't have gone bankrupt trying to run the numbers on horses with her calculations.
-Ruski