Totally Useless Facts

[MasJ]

Originally posted by mystic_knight
I know light CAN bend but its uninhibited path is a direct line. But I seriously doubt you can diffract the light and make it around the world, especially not 7 times. And I knew he meant the speed, I was just pointing out that actual light wouldn't do it.

And on the Plumbum thing, it was late, I meant to put an 'm'

Oh, and one more thing, a ray of light, monochromatic too, LASER =D

[Mistral]

Light can also be bent by high-gravity objects, not just diffraction.

The sun is eight light-minutes from the Earth - for those of a less astronomical persuasion, this means that the sun we see is in fact the sun of 8 minutes ago.

It was posted earlier that Coca-cola was translated into Chinese as "Bite the wax tadpole." This is correct. Pepsi's slogan "Pepsi Comes Alive" was also mis-translated into Chinese as "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave."

Also, someone posted earlier that cat urine glows in the dark. It only glows under a blacklight.

The three wise monkeys are named Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

In Siena, Italy, it is illegal to be a prostitute if your name is Mary.

SOS does not stand for anything. It was chosen by a 1908 conference because the Morse code letters S and O were easy to remember and recognize.

A jiffy is a unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

Robert E. Lee was pardoned of all crimes of treason posthumously by Gerald Ford.

If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number, you will always find the original number in the result.

[sha_khra]

actually, S.O.S. does stand for something, it was, and still is
(i think)
used in the navy to send an abreviated destress call spelling out Save Our Ship (S.O.S.)

[djnickname]

Originally posted by PolskiBroli
Mien Kampt...the whole thing in English...right <a href="http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/" target="_blank">here</a>!

I heard Mien Kampt is a FAQ about how you must setup a camp

[Solitude]

just to clarify something in my list...i didn't mean 9 girlfriends at the same time,i meant 9 in hitler's lifetime each of whom commited.i just thought some people might have misuderstood that part

[Koichi]

Caffeine and cigarettes don't mix.

[Clive]

Mein Kampt is actually called 'Mein Kampf' which means 'My Struggle'...and is actually more of a blueprint of National Socialism, rather than a guide to help plan a short camping trip in a desolate field somewhere near the rainswept village of Dudley.

And whilst on the subject of Hitler, he was apparently a fan of 'golden showers', whereby he would get a woman to urinate on his head. He also had a team of 15 expert barbers (who strangely, were all called Brian) to trim his moustache. Actually, I might have made that last bit up. But there you are.

[Howie]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/austria.asp

^^

[31337D00D]

Originally posted by sha_khra
actually, S.O.S. does stand for something, it was, and still is
(i think)
used in the navy to send an abreviated destress call spelling out Save Our Ship (S.O.S.)

No, But you are close. SOS stands for save our souls, not ship, alothough, since they use morse code, the navy primarly uses it.

[Nitramuse]

In your life, you will miss one day of blinking your eyes. (I don't remember the day correctly, correct me if I'm wrong)

[31337D00D]

It takes about 400 muscles to explain to some1 why they shouldn't mess with you. It takes 4 to punch them

[Nitramuse]

In other words, you can better beat them up 100x instead of saying it

[Steven]

the x box is Bulletproof

that is true to



http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6084935.html

[johnny blaze]

Haha. That's pretty interesting.

[Koichi]

Originally posted by Rose
[B]the x box is Bulletproof

that is true to

Aww. So you mean I CAN'T take a pistol to my brother's X Box?