The useless, but interesting facts thread
 

Share weird bits of knowledge

Cats purr at a frequency of 27-44 Hz. This is approximately that of a diesel engine

The common house fly buzzes in the key of F.

You can disable the region chip on an NES without hurting the console itself.
This will not only allow you to play PAL NES games, but it gets rid of the flashing screen problem as well.

Squirrels have perfect vision. They see everything in perfect focus.

Alaska is both the western most state in the United States as well as the eastern most.

There are no clocks in las vegas casinos.

Turkey, the American bird, acquired that name from being incorrectly identified by Europeans as a type of bird that was imported from Turkey and, thus, called Turkey fowl.

Lesson: Don't let Europeans homography your country with an ugly but delicious animal.

:confused: all.... squirrels?

It appears so.

In 1937 in Detroit, a baby fell from the 4th floor, on someone called Joseph Figlock. Both of them survived. One year later, the same baby from the same 4th floor, fell on the same person once more, and both were saved again.

This is not a useless fact...

One second of time is defined as:

the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.

Glass cracks generally at around 3000 miles per hour.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Genesis P-Orridge was the first person to ask a question on the first episode of BBC's Question Time in 1975. He obviously used his real name Neil Megson.

I have to poo now.

Pokemon eat riceballs, preferably with soy sauce.

Money proves the point I'm stuck between summer holiday and punk routine.

jawas smell like shit.

Madonna explained to talk show host David Letterman that she urinates on her own feet to help
cure her athlete's foot problem.

sailors can drink fresh water 100 miles out to sea from the mouth of the Amazon.

refused?

a fun site
http://cargocollective.com/learnsomethingeveryday

Yep...those squirrels you thought were short sighted saw everything.

What if you're not a sailor?

Chicken, Alaska got its name because the residents couldn't agree on how to spell Ptarmigan.

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atari is here

Yay, let's hope that he rants at some quasi-literate moron for not thanking him quickly enough or some other crazy shit.

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