useless facts

[Jimbuna]

A rare pink dolphin resides in Louisiana.

[Platapus]

NYC's Time Square New Year’s ball dropping first took place December 31, 1907.

[Jimbuna]

Rainbows at night exist.

[Rockstar]

Research into the hypoalgesic effect of swearing has shown that the use of profanity can help reduce the sensation of pain. This phenomenon is particularly strong in people who do not use such words on a regular basis.

https://archive.ph/20130814145404/ht...,66305,en.html

[Jimbuna]

About 80,000 plant species are edible.

[Ostfriese]

Women's clothing usually buttons right over left, meaning the right frontal part of clothes goes over the left.

Men's clothing usually buttons the other way around, left over right.

The reason for that dates back to the middle ages (and probably much earlier). Men usually did the fighting, and they fought with a shield in front of them. Shields were held in the off-hand, which for most men was the left hand, so the left side of the torso was usually facing the opponent. If a weapon bypassed the shield somehow, it was important that it could not easily bypass the clothing as well, so men's clothing had to be buttoned left over right (meaning the opening between the two sides would not face the opponent).

[Platapus]

It was my understanding that it was because men dressed themselves and women had someone help them dress. Since most people are right handed, Dressing yourself is more easily done left over right while a right handed person dressing someone else will also left over right from their perspective

[Platapus]

When police officers arrive at the scene of a crime and emotion or adrenaline threatens to override their training, in some jurisdictions dispatchers or other officers will use the code word “Q-TIP.” It’s an acronym for “Quit Taking It Personally,” and it’s intended to remind them to maintain control of the situation.

[Jimbuna]

Ripe cranberries can bounce.

[Jimbuna]

The Arabic word for fingers translates to ‘banana’.

[Platapus]

Not strictly Q-Tips, Japanese cotton swabs are sometimes found as black-tipped sticks. Why black? According to one Japanese travel blog, the color makes it easier to see what kind of wax or other assorted gunk you’ve pried out of your orifices.

[Ostfriese]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Not strictly Q-Tips, Japanese cotton swabs are sometimes found as black-tipped sticks. Why black? According to one Japanese travel blog, the color makes it easier to see what kind of wax or other assorted gunk you’ve pried out of your orifices.

Not sure if I really wanted that many details

[Platapus]

No one ever claimed that useless facts were pleasant.

[Jimbuna]

The world’s most dangerous tree is called the manchineel.
This is native to the tropical southern North American and northern South America. Every part of the tree contains toxins that can cause blisters and skin breakouts on human skin just from touch.

[Jimbuna]

The Terminator was sold for a dollar.
The first of the five movies of the Terminator franchise earned a total of $78.3 million worldwide at the box office. However, the rights for the movie was sold for a mere dollar.