useless facts - Page 104

Jimbuna · 03-13-22, 12:12 PM

40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.

Jeff-Groves · 03-13-22, 12:42 PM

The rate of preventable injury-related deaths occurring in or around the home has increased 272% since 1999.

So I'm moving to a Motel!

Jimbuna · 03-14-22, 01:54 PM

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Platapus · 03-14-22, 06:29 PM

Plutonic rock is formed when magma has cooled beneath the surface of the earth.

Jimbuna · 03-15-22, 11:18 AM

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

Platapus · 03-15-22, 03:16 PM

Regardless of what my wife says about me. Osmium is the densest element in the periodic table.

Jimbuna · 03-16-22, 10:42 AM

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

Platapus · 03-16-22, 04:07 PM

All water on earth arrived as ice on asteroids and comets from space.

Jimbuna · 03-17-22, 09:43 AM

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

Jimbuna · 03-20-22, 02:39 PM

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Aktungbby · 03-21-22, 11:51 AM

the Great Pyramid if Giza is made of 2,400,000 stone blocks, most weighing 2.5 tons apiece. It took 100,000 well fed beer swilling men 20 years to build and is the only original wonder of the(ancient) world still standing relatively intact...4761 years later

Jimbuna · 03-21-22, 01:49 PM

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Platapus · 03-21-22, 03:52 PM

Though their names may suggest otherwise, cuttlefish, starfish, and jellyfish aren’t actually fish. Generally-speaking, fishes must have skulls, gills, and fins. Surprisingly, though, not all fishes have proper spines.

Jimbuna · 03-22-22, 01:11 PM

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

Aktungbby · 03-22-22, 03:15 PM

Otherwise known academically as weighty tomes?!!

03-13-22, 12:12 PM	#1546
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-13-22, 12:42 PM	#1547
Jeff-Groves Village Idiot Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,319 Downloads: 130 Uploads: 0	The rate of preventable injury-related deaths occurring in or around the home has increased 272% since 1999. So I'm moving to a Motel! __________________ I don't do Stupid. So don't ask.

03-14-22, 01:54 PM	#1548
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-14-22, 06:29 PM	#1549
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,960 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Plutonic rock is formed when magma has cooled beneath the surface of the earth. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

03-15-22, 11:18 AM	#1550
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-15-22, 03:16 PM	#1551
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,960 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Regardless of what my wife says about me. Osmium is the densest element in the periodic table. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

03-16-22, 10:42 AM	#1552
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-16-22, 04:07 PM	#1553
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,960 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	All water on earth arrived as ice on asteroids and comets from space. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

03-17-22, 09:43 AM	#1554
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-20-22, 02:39 PM	#1555
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-21-22, 11:51 AM	#1556
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,871 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	the Great Pyramid if Giza is made of 2,400,000 stone blocks, most weighing 2.5 tons apiece. It took 100,000 well fed beer swilling men 20 years to build and is the only original wonder of the(ancient) world still standing relatively intact...4761 years later __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

03-21-22, 01:49 PM	#1557
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-21-22, 03:52 PM	#1558
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,960 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Though their names may suggest otherwise, cuttlefish, starfish, and jellyfish aren’t actually fish. Generally-speaking, fishes must have skulls, gills, and fins. Surprisingly, though, not all fishes have proper spines. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

03-22-22, 01:11 PM	#1559
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,284 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-22-22, 03:15 PM	#1560
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,871 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Otherwise known academically as weighty tomes?!! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"