Useless facts

[JeffH]

How many useless facts do you have stored in your brain? They never, ever seem to be the subject of a question at trivia nights -the only chance you might have to display your arcane knowledge.
Her are some of mine;
•Camels have three eyelids
•-40ºC=-40ºF
•There are no English rhymes for "month", "orange", "silver" and "purple".
•The oldest coins in the world were made in Lydia (part of medern Turkey location) about 600BC. They were composed of electrum (a natural alloy of silver and gold) and were single sided.
•"Abstemious" and "facetious" contain all five vowels in alphabetical order.

Tell us some of your interesting, but useless, facts.

fact  n.
1. Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy.
2.
a. Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed: Genetic engineering is now a fact. That Chaucer was a real person is an undisputed fact.
b. A real occurrence; an event: had to prove the facts of the case.

[nealeffendi]

My old boss used to use me as his "phone a friend" on trivia nights because I'm a font of "useless" trivia.
Abstemious and facetious are fun words in Scrabble and other word games (loved Scrabble nights as a kid). Another word game that I was good at was palindromes ("Madam, I'm Adam" was the earliest spoken palindrome).
The shortest sentence that contains all 5 vowels and 21 consonants is "Job for Quack vows lazy midget sphinx" (30 letters).
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" is possibly next at 31 letters
 What counts as rhyming words?
Orange lozenge?

[JeffH]

If the song "The wild Colonial Boy" can attempt to rhyme "wound" with "ground" then "lozenge" is a closer match for "orange" but, not quite -unless you have a strange accent.
Wild Colonial Boy

[Triggersmob]

Is flange close enough to orange?

[JeffH]

That's a good try. Might have to pay it. But, where are your useless facts?

[proof27]

The barnacle has the largest penis in the animal kingdom when compared with its size.:dodgy:

[robbiegal]

yep
I will pay THAT one as useless proofguy!!! ha ha

[Nevol]

The male antechinus humps itself to death, and dies of sexhaustion. Also believed to have the largest testicles of any marsupial relevant to their size.

[robbiegal]

OMG Nevol
Just when I thought it couldn't get more useless!!

where is AJ? he'd be choking on his own laughter!

[JeffH]

Nevol's fact is confirmed. Meet the antechinus, a mouse-like Aussie marsupial that kills itself by having too much sex
Talk about going out with a bang!

And....Barnacle penises are really fascinating Check out the "Barnacle Bill" ditty.

More please.

[robbiegal]

awwww
what thoughtful little marsupials
sacrificing themselves for their babies' future

cute and (very) sexy when the time is right for luvin' !

[nealeffendi]

The barnacle has the largest penis in the animal kingdom when compared with its size.:dodgy:

That needs scrawling on every public toilets wall.:dodgy:
If we are going into penile useless facts -Aristotle Onassis had the bar stools of his boat covered in the skins of whales penises. As a joke he used to get unsuspecting female guests to kiss the stools. Does anyone know if they were made by leatherworkers or moilers?:angel:
- A whales penis is a dork and can grow to 6' in length (is that erect?)
On a side note I am also 6' tall and my kids call me a dork.

[JeffH]

This is leading us down some strange paths.
Extract from Wikipedia; Blue whale penis. "The Icelandic Phallological Museum has a portion of a blue whale's penis measuring 170 cm (67 in) long and weighing 70 kilograms (150 lb), which Iceland Review has dubbed "a real Moby Dick". The specimen is just the tip, as the entire organ, when intact, would have been about 5 m (16 ft) long and weighed about 350–450 kilograms (770–990 lb), well above average for even a blue whale. By comparison, an adult elephant's penis is the largest penis of any land animal at 1.8 metres (6 ft) on average."

[robbiegal]

The barnacle has the largest penis in the animal kingdom when compared with its size.:dodgy:

That needs scrawling on every public toilets wall.:dodgy:
If we are going into penile useless facts -Aristotle Onassis had the bar stools of his boat covered in the skins of whales penises. As a joke he used to get unsuspecting female guests to kiss the stools. Does anyone know if they were made by leatherworkers or moilers?:angel:
- A whales penis is a dork and can grow to 6' in length (is that erect?)
On a side note I am also 6' tall and my kids call me a dork.

OMG I will NEVER use that word again
'Awhh ya silly dork' I have said that sooo many times in my life ... which is supposed to mean you dumbo & not the former!!

[Goldseeker]

I would rather called a dork that a "big p!@#$k" any day!