Useless yet amusing

[ashes1989]

this off topic section is a disgrace to off topic sections the net over xD

so heres some useless facts to get a conversation started:

1/ A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years

2/ Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune system

3/ From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

4/ During the female ------, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have --- (this might actually be my favorite xD)

5/ In 1952, Private George Jorgenson was the first person to receive a --- change. The US army soldier thought he was a woman that was trapped in a man's body. Christian Hamburger, a Danish doctor performed the --- change, and George Jorgenson changed his name to Christine Jorgenson

6/ The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day

7/ 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

8/ The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later

9/ The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years

10/ The village Kodinji in Keral India is home to 204 sets of twins

:D

[ataivaskathryn]

1) Dogs make 10-15 different vocal sounds; Cats can make more than 100.

2) It is illegal to tie an alligator to a fire hydrant in New Orleans.

[mapache38 (deleted)]

`Rofl

1) Peru grows a kind of corn that's purple.

[archaeopteryx42 (deleted)]

`TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.

[tezo]

`-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
-The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
-Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
-The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
-Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
-Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
-The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
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I am full of useless information it would seem...

:D