Utterly useless facts and information

[lord bunberry]

Brazil nuts are the only nuts that can cause someone with a nut allergy to suffer a reaction through sexual intercourse.

[snooky]

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Brazil nuts are the only nuts that can cause someone with a nut allergy to suffer a reaction through sexual intercourse.

Nae wonder Alan Brazil canny get a wummin.

[lord bunberry]

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Nae wonder Alan Brazil canny get a wummin.

True, but there's other reasons as well

[lord bunberry]

The boa constrictor is the only animal that is named exactly as its scientific name.

[Jack]

Own goal in football will at some time be the top scorer for every club and national team.

Kenny Dalglish as far as I can see has 30 goals, own goal has scored 21.

In England it's much closer with Rooney on 53 and own goal is already the second highest scorer with 50.

I'll let some Hibs stats nerd ;-) give us the Hibs figures.

[lord bunberry]

Eleven plus two is an anagram of twelve plus one.

[Peevemor]

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Eleven plus two is an anagram of twelve plus one.

I like that one.

[lord bunberry]

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I like that one.

It was on QI last night.

[snooky]

The only survivor from Custer's Last Stand was a horse ironically called "Comanche"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_(horse)

[lord bunberry]

If you want to work at the South Pole you have to get your wisdom teeth and your appendix removed first.

[Pretty Boy]

All modern thoroughbred horses can be traced back to only 3 stallions, the 'foundation stallions'. The Darley Arabian (about 95% of modern racehorses can trace their Y chromosone here), the Byerley Turk and the Godolphin Arabian. On top of that about 90% of all thoroughbreds alive today trace to only 27 stallions from the late 18th and early 19th century, that jumps to 96% if you add a 28th named stallion.

Depending on your viewpoint horse racing (and other equine sports) is either a triumph or a tragedy of selective breeding and really is as clear an example of humans manipulating nature as you will see.

[Allant1981]

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If you want to work at the South Pole you have to get your wisdom teeth and your appendix removed first.

why?

[snooky]

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why?

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-tha...Why-is-this-so

[Allant1981]

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https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-tha...Why-is-this-so

cheers, imagine having to operate on yourself, brave guy

[portyhibernian]

Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Teeth are the only visible part of a living human's skeleton

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

The street that theBritish embassy in Iran was on was renamed Bobby Sands street following the Revolution in Iran. The Embassy moved its door.

The Bullet Shrimps vision is so perfect it can see colours no other living organism can see.

[TRC]

Saw this one today
There are more atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the ocean

[Future17]

The first artist to score "nul points" in Eurovision was called Fud.

[Jim Herriot]

An ounce of gold weighs more than an ounce of feathers.

[SuperAllyMcleod]

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An ounce of gold weighs more than an ounce of feathers.

Ok, I'll bite - explain your reasoning here.

[Peevemor]

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Ok, I'll bite - explain your reasoning here.

It's because gold is measured using a specific system (the troy system) where an ounce is heavier than the everyday ounce used to weigh other stuff.

[SuperAllyMcleod]

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It's because gold is measured using a specific system (the troy system) where an ounce is heavier than the everyday ounce used to weigh other stuff.

Ok, fair enough but it sounds like a con set in place by the gold industry.

[snooky]

An oldie but for those who don't know....
The lightest card in a pack of dominoes is the double six as it has the most indentations.

[Scouse Hibee]

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An oldie but for those who don't know....
The lightest card in a pack of dominoes is the double six as it has the most indentations.

There is a whole debate on this, it also has more paint than others which could make it heavier ;-)

[speedy_gonzales]

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An oldie but for those who don't know....
The lightest card in a pack of dominoes is the double six as it has the most indentations.

Card? It's bones or tiles in my house!

[lord bunberry]

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Card? It's bones or tiles in my house!

Philistine

[Geo_1875]

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The street that theBritish embassy in Iran was on was renamed Bobby Sands street following the Revolution in Iran. The Embassy moved its door.

The Bullet Shrimps vision is so perfect it can see colours no other living organism can see.

That confuses the hell out of me. If we can't communicate with these organisms how do they let us know that there are colours we can't see?

[lord bunberry]

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That confuses the hell out of me. If we can't communicate with these organisms how do they let us know that there are colours we can't see?

We know there's colours we can't see already. What we see is known as visible light, but there's other light that we don't see like infared, ultra violet, x ray, microwave etc.

[Geo_1875]

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We know there's colours we can't see already. What we see is known as visible light, but there's other light that we don't see like infared, ultra violet, x ray, microwave etc.

Yes I know that but how can we assign colour to something we can't see?

[lord bunberry]

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Yes I know that but how can we assign colour to something we can't see?

Sorry I get you now. I'm not really sure if it's possible to have other colours that we can't see, unless it can see in one of the other light spectrums.