useless trivia thread

[mechataku]

here you can post any useless trivia you may know!

Here's one: your hair has a maximum length. once a strand reaches that length, it falls out, and a knew hair starts growing in its place....unless your going bald, of course...and the max length varies from person to person

[Priestess Angel]

Oh, this is cool! Good idea, mechataku!

I know that Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.

[Innerhell]

Marilyn Monroe supposedly was born with eleven toes, but this is merely urban legend because photos of baby Norma Jeane show that she was a normal baby with five toes in each foot. The myth arose in the book The Birth of Marilyn by Joseph Jasgur. The eleventh toe in Jasgur's photograph was probably just a lump of sand.

[Shu]

buffy_fan was really a man!!!!!!

[Priestess Angel]

Did you know that Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing?

[Shu]

If u put your foot on the tip of your toes(while sitting) and rotate your leg clockwise, and then draw a 6 in the air with your right hand, your leg will automatically start rotating counter-clockwise.....

[Priestess Angel]

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.

[mechataku]

Originally Posted by Priestess Angel

Oh, this is cool! Good idea, mechataku!

Thanks! here's a few more: Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.


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[Priestess Angel]

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

[Shinku no kage]

Oh!! There was a Japanese TV show that concentrated on useless trivia and I think that Spike TV aired it for a while.

There were things like how many newspapers that you can stock on top of eachother til it toppled over or how diamonds are very resistent to scratches but can be smashed rather easily.