The Thread of Useless Facts

[kerfufflez]

The measurement from your elbow to the tip of your middle finger is (or should be) equal to the waist measurement of your jeans/trousers/pants (laid out flat). - Completely useless info, unless you are buying clothes and there are no changing rooms to try anything on.

[Timber020]

The mitsubishi symbol of the 3 diamonds was taken from the 3 blade propeller from there most successful wartime product, the Mitsubishi Zero, as seen on the attack of pearl harbour.

Heroine was praised when first discovered as a cure for the terrible affliction of opium addiction. Discovered and produced by the Bayer company until it was found to be less than harmless

Hitler and Abraham lincoln were both gay.

Charles Manson sent a script he wrote to Steve McQueens production company Solar. It was rejected and Steve McQueen was on the list of people Charles Manson intended to kill at the party where he and his follwers murdered several people including Sharon Tate. McQueen met a girl on his way to the party and never showed. (luckily for him)


The first helicopter crossing of the english channel was done at gunpoint


During the war, Porsche made tank parts.

[HDTboy]

The diameter of a standard basketball hoop is 18 inches

[JATZ]

the little plastic piece on the end of your shoe lace is called an aglet

see if you can slip that into conversation tomorow.

[ManDownUnder]

'Tis in the big Oxford, marked archaic. It actually refers to a gravid fish, as you note goldfish do not get pregnant. 'twit' is actually a contraction the correct term is an entwitith

Cheers Les - citation need please.

[homer]

http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/myths_and_rumours/

sorry coke was never green!!

Your quite correct

used to be called coke and cola
cause it had a minute amount of coke put in it

[HDTboy]

The dot above a lower case I is called a tittle.

[pete376403]

IBM service and parts literature describes a fan as an "air movement device"

[pete376403]

During the war, Porsche made tank parts.

Some woud say they still do...

The constellation (stars) of Pleiades is called Subaru in Japanese - the badge in the centre of the car grille depicts the stars.

[BuFfY]

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

Male monkeys go bald the same as human males.

The Mona Lisa has no eye brows.

Mosquito repellants don't repel. The spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they don't know you're there.

By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at primary school.

People say "bless you" when you sneeze, because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond.

[jrandom]

... when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond.

If you look at an ECG pulse, the heart is quiescent for many, many milliseconds during every beat.

[BuFfY]

If you look at an ECG pulse, the heart is quiescent for many, many milliseconds during every beat.

My source may not have been completely reliable!
There a lot of 'facts' about sneezing huh

[Mikkel]

I need a shave...

[BASS-TREBLE]

This is the 45th post in the official Thread of Useless Facts.

[Bass]

People say "bless you" when you sneeze, because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond.

I was told that it was because the soul was believed to leave the body momentarily when sneezing.


There are many explanations for the origin of the expression " OK " in the English language.
One of the more believable is that one of Henry Ford's Chief Engineers was a guy by the name of Otto Kruger who used to inspect every engine that came off the engine assembly-line and chalk his initials on the block if satisfied with it.