Utterly useless facts and information

[lord bunberry]

I love useless facts and information, let's hear everyone's.
I will start with a couple
Antartica is the biggest desert in the world
The day on Venus is longer than the year.

[Pretty Boy]

Hitler didn't refuse to shake the hand of Jesse Owens as an explicit act of racism. He was advised by the IOC that it was against protocol to congrarulate medal winners after he had congratulated German winners the day before so didn't congratulate any winners the day Owens won his medal.

After each player makes three moves in a chess match there are over 120M possible ways the game can go.

[lord bunberry]

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Hitler didn't refuse to shake the hand of Jesse Owens as an explicit act of racism. He was advised by the IOC that it was against protocol to congrarulate medal winners after he had congratulated German winners the day before so didn't congratulate any winners the day Owens won his medal.

After each player makes three moves in a chess match there are over 120M possible ways the game can go.

That's the kind of stuff I like

[lord bunberry]

Beam me up Scotty was never said in Star Trek.

[Hibrandenburg]

My ***** is exactly the same length as two IKEA pencils.

I'm barred from IKEA.

[Pete]

Only one in every hundred people in Jamaica are Rastafarian.

[Godsahibby]

The Slovakian and Slovenian embassays meet once a month to exchange incorrectly addressed mail.

[SuperAllyMcleod]

The average man has less than two legs ( it only takes one one-legged man to bring the averages below two).

There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

[Godsahibby]

For those who love these sorts of facts there is an amazing Podcsst called 'No Such Thing as a fish'. It's the researchers from QI with the useless facts they have found out that week.

Also worth a follow on twitter

[Betty Boop]

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My ***** is exactly the same length as two IKEA pencils.

I'm barred from IKEA.

[Godsahibby]

For those who love these sorts of facts there is an amazing Podcsst called 'No Such Thing as a fish'. It's the researchers from QI with the useless facts they have found out that week.

Also worth a follow on twitter

[SRHibs]

If you stretch your intestines out, end to end, along a football pitch, you would die.

[lord bunberry]

Before oxygen was present on the earth the oceans were green.

[brianmc]

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For those who love these sorts of facts there is an amazing Podcsst called 'No Such Thing as a fish'. It's the researchers from QI with the useless facts they have found out that week.

Also worth a follow on twitter

We heard you the first time!

[snooky]

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We heard you the first time!

Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam"

Gordon Smith and Bobby Johnstone were originally Hearts fans &
Ned and Willie O were originally Rangers fans (so I was told).

You could get model T Fords in all sorts of colours not just black.

[lord bunberry]

Tigers have stripped skin as well as stripped hair.

[McD]

The reason the sky is blue is because of the angle that light is refracted through air.

The reason it can appear red in the evening and in the morning is because it's at a different angle (from our perspective).

[Future17]

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The average man has less than two legs ( it only takes one one-legged man to bring the averages below two).

Have you factored in those that have three?

[DH1875]

If you live in Iceland, its apparently against the law to own a pet dog.

[Caversham Green]

In Britain October is the longest month of the year.

[grunt]

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In Britain October is the longest month of the year.

Eh?

[Caversham Green]

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Eh?

Clocks go back, so it's an hour longer than any other 31 day month.

[grunt]

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Clocks go back, so it's an hour longer than any other 31 day month.

Doh!

[Just Jimmy]

"There's been a murder" was never actually said in Taggart.

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[Caversham Green]

When Clark Gable said "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" he had to put the emphasis on "give" because "damn" was considered a swear word.

(In Gone With the Wind btw).

[Hibrandenburg]

The word "gullible" is not in the English Dictionary.

[lord bunberry]

The Earth is closest to the sun in January.

[lord bunberry]

In Iceland your last name is your fathers first name with son on the end or dottir if you're a girl.

[Godsahibby]

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We heard you the first time!

No idea how that posted twice like that.

[Franck Le God]

The Republic of Ireland only introduced postcodes in 2015.

The word 'hundred' used to mean 120.

There's a gift shop at Guantanamo Bay.