Tom Clancy is the only author who knows how to pilot an m1 Abrams tank AND build a nuclear missile.

One of which he has actually accomplished.

In Mission Impossible 2, the floor of the Biocyte Building that the virus is stored on is floor 42.

The version of any TIFF graphics file is 42, and will always be 42.

The floor that Neo and Trinity stop on in the elevator is floor 42.

If you put all the blood cells in your body in single file they would create a line 59,000 miles in length

Carrots actually DO help you see better- assuming that you are missing some Vitamin A in your system.

To initiate sex the female praying mantas cuts the males head off

carrots used to be purple. cant remember where i heared that but i did.

men can make brest milk if thier nipples are stimulated enough.....(dont ask)

The song "Chapter Four" by Avenged Sevenfold covers the story of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis, chapter four. It's written from three perspectives: Cain before he kills Abel, Cain after he kills Abel and God.

The monkey overlords are coming... you have been warned

http://sbt.bhmedia.com/facts1.html

that was a whole lot simpler than posting them all.

Adrianople in Turkey is the worlds most fought-over city. It has been the subject of 15 major battles or seiges in the last 1700 years

On the pacific island of Pingelap, the islanders enjoy spam because they say it reminds them of the taste of "long pig", or human flesh.

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker say that they prefer animation and puppetry because they hate actors.

I don't know how true this is, but someone once told me that with the way the jet stream works, coconuts from the Carribbean wash up on the shores of Ireland and Scotland.

Bump!

Tea solves everything in Britain

The longest poo ever recorded was over a staggering (note the choice of words...) twelve feet, and was done by an American man who subsequently got banned from many rest rooms across the country. The longest fart ever recorded was 2 minutes, 43 seconds (or there abouts).

Nice to see that one of us is being mature...

When you get a tattoo, your body goes into shock...and boy does it feel good!

i have a clock that runs backwards

Crazy language rantings:

My girlfriend was born in Hungary and has lived in the States for three years. She speaks five languages: English, Romani, Russian, Spanish (though not fluently) and German.

Romani is a combination of Russian, German and various languages spoken by regional Gypsies.

Since English is her second language, she has to have her rights read to her in Romani.

Her mom hates the wa English sounds, so whenever she calls, my girlfriend replies to everything she says in English.

My girlfriend lives with her Romanian grandmother and her American dad. During day-to-day conversations, they use Romani, English and German. It's not uncommon for someone to say something in one language and someone else reply in another. They usually argue in German and speak Romani while drunk.

I can't make this up.

Some insects have no brains.

The cells that make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

The little magnifying tubs with tubes used to catch and observe bugs without harming them for school projects, are called pooters.

You suck one tube and the bug goes up the other into the tub, you can't accidentally swallow one either.
Which is always good to know.

Unless you use the wrong tube to suck on (the longer one), then you get a mouthful of bug.

St. Augustine, Florida, is the oldest city in the US. It's also about two hours or so away from my house.

My friend lives in a house which is older than American Independance.
Its a very big house in the country....

(I'll stop the references to Blur...)

An octopus has 9 brains and three hearts.
My cat has one tooth more than the average cat.
This is no ordinary pickernic basket.

There are four pro skaters known only by nicknames: Ragdoll, Jub, Trainwreck and Bam Margera.

In an average day:

- your hands will indirectly come into contact with 15 penises, from touching doorknobs etc.

- you will breath in 1 litre of other peoples anal gases

In an average year:

- you will swallow 14 insects while you sleep

- you will eat 12 pubic hairs in fast food

- you will shake hands with 6 men and 11 women who have recently masturbated and not washed their hands

In 1 hour in a pubic swimming pool you wil ingest 0.5 litres of urine

Lovely, eh?

I don't even ingest 1.5 litres of pool water in one hour.

New beds dont squeek as much

Water beds don't squeak at all.

Unless it is secretly filled with hamsters, in which case you should contact your matress salesman.

Well I imagine you could ingest urine in other ways than orally; perhaps it could find its way through your skin or one of the many lovely orifices the human body has provided.

Useless information: it is 92 degrees in my house, and my thermometer has rabbits on it.

Sorry, I miss typed that, it is meant to be 0.5 litres

the letters in 'twelve add one' also make the words 'eleven add two', which both add up to thirteen.

JFK's secretary's name was Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's secretary's last name was Kennedy.

JFK was with Marilyn Monroe two weeks before he died, Lincoln was in Monroe, Maryland two weeks before he died.

Lincoln died in Ford Theatre, JFK died in a Ford car.

Most of the US's mass graves are in St. Augustine, most of which due to a massive yellow fever epidemic.

One of the mass graves isn't really a grave at all. It was a big pit where they buried amputated limbs. THe city then built a road oover it.

Posted by Daria in the way to much info thread (definatly useless rather than to much )

The difference between a coffin and a casket-
A casket is rectangular and has a hinged lid.
A coffin is shaped at the shoulders, and has a lid which until screwed down, isn't attatched.

Do you now that british go into a bar and order a hard tea?

Uhm...wha? Just because it's useless information doesn't mean it shouldn't be accurate.

In Texas

-The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.


It is illegal for both sexes to flirt or respond to flirtation using the eyes and/or hands.

There is a theory that states that light bulbs suck in dark, rather than emit light.

I suppose that they don't enforce that anymore, since my school Has the set!

According to a friend of mine, in the state we live in (Indiana), pi (the mathematical term) is legally 4. I'd have thought it would be 3, as that is what it rounds to. However, I haven't had the time to actually check that, so it might not be quite accurate.

Pythagareus (Sp?), father of mathehmatics and music, came up with the Pentagram as a symbol of mathematical purity... take the star, break it down into lines wherever the lines cross. Line up the resulting lines by height. The smallest line will be half the length of the next longest, which will be half the length of the next longest, etc. In otherwords: eighths. Octaves. As in musical cords. Because, an octave in music represents the sounds a specific length of wire will make, after being devided into eighths, then plucked. 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, etc.

Pythagarus (Sp?), often got together with his followers to make music and discuss mathematics in secret. Their pass sign was the pentagram. Early Christians picked up on the pentagram as a symbol of secrecy, and it has been both glorified and villified ever since... examples of it's use include witchcraft, satanism, and the Pentagon.

In the Eisenhower Interstate system, 1 mile in every 5 has to be straight, so it can be used as an airstrip in times of war or national emergency.

Lincoln was shot in a theatre and his killer hid in a warehouse.

JFK was shot in a warehouse and his killer hid in a theatre.

Both presidents were with their wives, and both were shot on a Friday before a holiday.

And the Limousine Kennedy was in was a Ford Lincoln.

Although, Lincoln did not have a secretary called Kennedy, as far as I know from watching too many JFK programs.

This make absolutely no sences at all to me.

Forgive me if you've had all these, I can't find time to read 14 pages of useless information:

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister
in the English language.

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

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Erm...what about North America and South America?

Apparently, it's true! Partly, at any rate. See links here and here for the story.

The guys from Mushroomhead are close friends with the guys from Dope. Other bands they like to tour with include Mushuggah, Avenged Seven Sevenfold, 40 Below Summer, Motograder, Twisted Method, Sevendust and Crossbreed.

JJ Righteous (guitar) left Mushroomhead when they signed onto Universal Records. He wanted to stay on the underground scene. Bronson (samples), who was also a good guitarist, stepped up to replace Righteous. In Bronson's stead, their friend Chris was brought in to play samples and renamed Stitch.

J Mann recently left the band to work full-time with his side project 216. To replace him, they brought in their friend Waylon who wasn't renamed. THe thing is, his vocal stylings are different from Mann's. Waylon's scream is higher and he also sings and does harmonics with Jeffrey Nothing (vocals).

As a joke, Waylon once did a "Chester (of Linkin Park) scream. Skinny (drums) became excited and shouted, "Do that! That sells.

According to Waylon, their new album is supposed to be like Black Sabbath meets Pink Floyd. One can only imagine.

I love Mushroomhead.

The CanAm highway, created in a single year during WWII, was built to create and supply air force bases in Alaska, as Alaska is just a handful of miles from Russian Siberia... It was one of the first projects to use both Black and White enlisted men, working together.