Here we are... USELESS FACTS... (yay!)

[Nick]

The longest bout of hiccups lasted 65 years.

It would take 2 1/2 minutes to fall from the top of Mount Everest.

Poison Ivy is a member of the Cashew family.

Cashew nuts are actually seeds from the Cashew Apple.

A swarm of 50,000 bees weighs about 10 pounds.

In 1870 it took 8 days to cross the US by train.

In the 19th century, using the word 'pants' was a punishable offence.

The Belgian Post Office experimented with using cats to deliver the post.

In Switzerland it's against the law to slam your car door.

Traffic accidents rise 10% in the first week of daylight savings time.

In the US Daylight saving ends on the 26th October, but not in Arizona, which doesnt follow it. But if you live on Arizona's Navajo Reservation then you do follow it, unless you're on the Hopi Partition on the Reservation... which doesn't.

33% of the world's population cannot snap their fingers.

Thomas Edison wasn't blind but preferred reading in Braille.

Vultures can fly without flapping their wings.

The fingerprints of a human and a koala are virtually identical.

If a grasshopper is hungry enough it will eat external house paint.

[Jcb33]

Made me LAFF

[steve threlfall]

Originally posted by Jcb33
Made me LAFF

and spam?

A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners.

Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.

As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.
Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.

Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.

Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.

If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London.

In 1958, the Crayola crayon color "Prussian Blue" was changed to "Midnight Blue" by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history.

In 1971, the postal code was introduced in Ottawa, Ontario.

In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.

In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit.

In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty.

[shiato storm]

In Switzerland it's against the law to slam your car door.

this I can understand...the swiss being mildly retentive...

[Swafe]

did you know...

i love these threads

jcb33 is the closest a human can ever be to being a tin of the finest canned ham

[[GSV]Trig]

Originally posted by steve threlfall
In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.

Anyone notice how all the weird ways to die are usually found by yanks lol

[silent ben]

Heard of 1 guy who died 20 years after he shot the bullet that killed him. He shot the bullet into a tree, then 20 years later he blew up the tree or sumthing. The lodged bullet flew out and hit him in the chest. Never believe it myself but you never know.

Ben

[Nick]

Ben, it was on the Darwin Awards.

The guy tried to remove a tree in his backyard using dynamite, but having no fuses he decided to set the dynamite off by shooting it. Afer several failed shots a ricochet hit him in the eye blinding him in that eye and partially disabling him.

Twenty years later he decided to get rid of tha tree that he felt had ruined his life and blew it up properly, but one of his original bullets from twenty years previously was ejected from the tree as it blew, it entered his good eye and carried on into his brain, killing him.

[[GSV]Trig]

Hehe Darwins always good for a laugh, what about the hunter that blew a fuse in his truck and to replace it he used a life round which then went off and shot him in the leg or something...

[Sibu]

Darwin awards, wats that when its at home?

These useless facts always make me laugh, makes u wonder just how stupid americans really are

no offense to american posters

[Nick]

www.darwinawards.com

A site dedicated to those who do humanity a favour by removing themselves from the gene pool... the way in which the remove themselves shows why they shouldn't be allowed to paddle in the pool!