Worthless Facts

[zboner]

State a fact then the next person does the same. MUST BE A TRUE FACT.
This is the kind of shit people win on Jeopardy knowing.



The Sega Genesis controllers work in Atari 2600 & 7800 and vice-versa.

[spitz]

The dog Toto's real name was Terry. (posted that years ago and my sis in law got pissed cuz her name is...well you know)

[JohnDoe5150]

The word fact has 4 letters

[angra]

Originally Posted by spitz

The dog Toto's real name was Terry. (posted that years ago and my sis in law got pissed cuz her name is...well you know)

Toto?

[spitz]

Originally Posted by angra

Toto?

Yea, as in "You and your little dog Toto too!!!"....

Damn, my turn again....Light travels at 1.86 million miles per second.

[burbankchub]

Stewardesses is the longest word typed only with the left hand

[ArcariusZERO]

The speed of sound at sea level is 330 metres per second

[bdlrun]

most American car horns honk in the key of "F"

[Krumm1214]

Europe is the only continent that can be typed using only the top row of letters on a qwerty keyboard

[JohnDoe5150]

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels

[Krumm1214]

On average men speak 12,500 words a day. Women speak 25,000.

[angra]

Did you know that most worthless facts in this thread are not facts at all but rather just pieces of folklore and old wives tales kept alive by the internet medium

[Krumm1214]

If you wanted to count from one to one trillion and you started right now, counting twenty-four hours a day, it would take you about 31,688 years.

[zboner]

Michael Nesmith of the Monkees mother invited Liquid Paper (White-Out) and when his mother passed away, he inherited over $50 million dollars

[bgregs]

I can't speak for the validity of many of these, but the speed of light is NOT 1.86 million miles per second. It's actually .186 million miles per second, or normally written as 186,000 miles per second.

A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2" x 3-1/2"

[futurepro]

The Earth and the Moon go around each other. The two bodies orbit a common centre of gravity loacted about 1,600 km (1,000 miles) below the surface of the Earth, so the Earth makes three different rotations: around its own axis, around the Sun and around this point.

[zboner]

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA.'

[enderwiggen]

A prarie dog never has to drink water in its life. It gets all its water from the grass it eats.

[futurepro]

Moths are not attracted to flames they are disorientated by them. Apart from the odd forest fire, artificial light sources have been in existence for an extremely short time in comparision with the age of the relationship between moths and the Sun and Moon. Many insects use these light sources to navigate by day and night.

Because the Moon and the Sun are a long way away, the insects have evolved to expect the the light from them to strike their eyes in the same place at different times of day or night, enabling them to calculate how to fly in a straight line.


When people come along with their portable miniature suns and moons and moths flies past, the light confuses it. It assumes it must somehow be moving in a curved path, because its postion in relation to the stationary 'sun' or 'moon' has unexpectedly changed.

The moth the adjusts it course until it sees the light as stationary again. With a light source so close, the only way this is possible for an object which is so close is to fly round and round it in circles.

[zboner]

The number one selling CD in history is the third Beatles anthology. It recently beat out the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits."