Interesting yet useless facts...

[Chulk]

This topic is to write any kind of useless/interesting fact you hear about. The reason is I like to read them, so I hope you would write many. I'll post the first 3 I remembered...

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook. (I bet someone here has it) 

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.

[AbuRaf70]

La primera comida preservada en lata fue inventada en 1810, pero el abrelatas no surgió hasta 1858.

[CTG]

Tribute to Töff, useless facts about sex of animals :

Dolphins and chimps are the only animals having sex only for joy.

Male lions are able to have sex 50 times a day.

Pigs have 30 minutes long orgasm.

Male praying mantis can't have sex before the female removes his head.



And some really-really useless facts from other fields:

If you poop fluently for 7 years and then burn the gas, it can produce as much energy as an average nuclear bomb.

Mucophagia: scientific name for eating the snot coming from your nose.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. (LOL)

It's forbidden to give the name 'Napoleon' to pigs in France.


If you are hunting for funny facts, just have a look at strange old laws in different American states...

[Chulk]

La primera comida preservada en lata fue inventada en 1810, pero el abrelatas no surgió hasta 1858.

I wonder how did they open the can/tin...
Me pregunto como abririan la lata...

Another one

A cockroach can live 9 days without its head until it dies... from starvation!
Una cucaracha puede vivir 9 dias sin la cabeza hasta que muere... de hambre!

[AbuRaf70]

Muchas veces que fuí de caza o pesca, para abrir alguna de esas latas, lo hacíamos con el cuchillo grande...  y para apoyarlo, le poníamos otro cruzado encima de la tapa...  de esa forma, íbamos cortando la tapa...

Puedo asegurar que nunca nos quedamos con hambre por no tener un abrelatas...

[alanrotoi]

If you go up a bridge and puts 5ta gear you jump to 245 mph..... it's a fact!

[CTG]

If you go up a bridge and puts 5ta gear you jump to 245 mph..... it's a fact!

But it's not useless.

[BonzaiJoe]

It's not true, though Your rpm has to be over 7000

[Chulk]

If you go up a bridge and puts 5ta gear you jump to 245 mph..... it's a fact!

It's not true, though Your rpm has to be over 7000

But it becomes true in a loop.

Another one: Buenos Aires has the highest psychologist/people ratio in the world.

[AbuRaf70]

Triskaidekaphobia es el miedo al número 13.

[Chulk]

Clinophobia is the fear of beds.   
Clinophobia es el miedo a las camas. 

[zaqrack]

loopophobia is the fear of up/down lopps.
skidophobia is the intense fear of skidding out in corners.

[Chulk]

loopophobia is the fear of up/down lopps.
skidophobia is the intense fear of skidding out in corners.

I've experienced those two in late FTT races. (Specially the 2nd one with bloody Countach)
Yo sufri las dos en las ultimas carreras de FTT. (Especialmente la segunda con el maldito Countach)

[alanrotoi]

Schizofrenia - A Sepultura album
Fear of the dark - An Iron Maiden album
Youthanasia - A Megadeth album

Sorry chulk I don't have interesting things to say but useless I have a lot

for example I bought (my mother actually) a magazine called "Muy Interesante" of "Very Interesting" in 1985. The main article speaks about a possible USA-USSR expedition to Mars in 1992 I'm still waiting.... BTW USSR desapeared in 1993 so...

[Chulk]

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

The expression "OK" comes from the US Army. At the end of the day, they wrote down the number of casualties (or "kills") in a bilboard. If there had been 2 kills, then they wrote 2K, if nobody had died, then it read 0K, so the "o" in OK is actually a "0".

MAFIA is an acronym for "Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela", or "Death to the French is Italy's Cry"

edit: One more for Zacky my brother just told me...
The phrase "jet lag" was once called "boat lag", back before airplanes existed