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Ramone · Post by **Ramone** » 18 Sep 2003, 11:52

A camel can drink 200 litres of water in 3 minutes.

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » 18 Sep 2003, 11:55

Some frogs can be frozen down when it's cold (over winter).. and when it's getting warmer they're alive...

insane guy · Post by **insane guy** » 18 Sep 2003, 12:58

bonobos fuck with anyone

8-ball · Post by **8-ball** » 18 Sep 2003, 13:23

Elephants can shit over 5 kilos in a few seconds

EasyGijs · Post by **EasyGijs** » 18 Sep 2003, 13:32

my notebook is damaged 13 times a year

chux · Post by **chux** » 18 Sep 2003, 13:41

All polar bears are left handed

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 18 Sep 2003, 14:47

my speakers are from the 'Philips SBC BA200' type

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » 18 Sep 2003, 14:49

insane guy wrote:bonobos fuck with anyone

Find information here, there's hell lot of them on the net... running free...

8-ball · Post by **8-ball** » 18 Sep 2003, 16:55

I urinate average 4 times a day

(i love drinks, especially Coke)

dz · Post by dz » 18 Sep 2003, 16:59

only four?
That's nothing, are you a girl?

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 18 Sep 2003, 21:07

left handed people live on average 7 years less than right handed people, polar bears who really are only left handed live on average 7 years less

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 18 Sep 2003, 21:14

Isn't this really USELESS information dudes?

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 18 Sep 2003, 22:34

starfish have no brains

Revolt · Post by **Revolt** » 19 Sep 2003, 09:38

yeh zworqy, its pretty useless, but i like useless info

heres a few:
cockroaches were on earth before dinosaurs

jellyfish are 95% water

chewing gum is illegal in singapore

Juble · Post by **Juble** » 19 Sep 2003, 09:52

50% of non-elma dicussion posts are Ky Jelly's BullShit

yes hard to believe but true

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 19 Sep 2003, 10:11

Juble wrote:50% of non-elma dicussion posts are Ky Jelly's BullShit

yes hard to believe but true

Not hard to believe

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 19 Sep 2003, 18:48

zworqy wrote:
Juble wrote:50% of non-elma dicussion posts are Ky Jelly's BullShit

yes hard to believe but true
Not hard to believe

at least my information is useable, you the hell is going to go tell someone else that 8-ball urinates 4 times a day, i beat taht you will tell someone else that a pigs orgasm lasts for 30minutes, which one is useless and could be used,

chux · Post by **chux** » 20 Sep 2003, 00:20

Its true, a pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes...but some lions mate up to 60 times a day...apparantly...

Also, on the topic of starfish, they can regenerate any lost 'limbs'

Vaitork · Post by **Vaitork** » 20 Sep 2003, 02:13

chux wrote:Its true, a pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes...but some lions mate up to 60 times a day

Quantity over quality? mmm... nahhh, i'd rather be a pig

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 20 Sep 2003, 08:33

Trivia is the latin word for USELESS informatio

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 20 Sep 2003, 09:33

petsen wrote:Trivia is the latin word for USELESS informatio

that's useful information for me, didn't know that

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 20 Sep 2003, 13:01

<--- This smily's real name is "arrogant asshole".

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 21 Sep 2003, 12:59

Juble wrote:50% of non-elma dicussion posts are MagnusB's BullShit

specially his last one it was just pure spam

Human blood races through the arteries at 90cm per second

Cooking and freezing does not diminish the heat of a chilli pepper

Most people by the age of 60 have lost 50% of their taste buds and 40% of their ability to smell

bob · Post by **bob** » 21 Sep 2003, 14:18

it is said that more then 10 spiders, in your whole life, will crawl down your mouth when you are sleeping.

average person has 17 dreams a night, but only remembers one or two.

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 21 Sep 2003, 14:32

bob wrote:it is said that more then 10 spiders, in your whole life, will crawl down your mouth when you are sleeping.

average person has 17 dreams a night, but only remembers one or two.

ye ive heard that about the spiders,... and im arachnophobic

8-ball · Post by **8-ball** » 21 Sep 2003, 15:00

The topic says "Useful Information", but we all say pretty useless information... Anyway, someone change topic name to "Useless information"

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 21 Sep 2003, 16:42

ramone wrote:A camel can drink 200 litres of water in 3 minutes.

you call this useless?

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 21 Sep 2003, 21:56

8-ball wrote:The topic says "Useful Information", but we all say pretty useless information... Anyway, someone change topic name to "Useless information"

Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder.

chux · Post by **chux** » 21 Sep 2003, 22:11

bob wrote:it is said that more then 10 spiders, in your whole life, will crawl down your mouth when you are sleeping.

More than 20...youre still right though

bob wrote:average person has 17 dreams a night, but only remembers one or two.

If that. I rarely remember any dreams, but again you are right...

chux · Post by **chux** » 21 Sep 2003, 22:12

bob wrote:it is said that more then 10 spiders, in your whole life, will crawl down your mouth when you are sleeping.

More than 20...youre still right though

bob wrote:average person has 17 dreams a night, but only remembers one or two.

If that. I rarely remember any dreams, but again you are right...

As for my usless/useful information, The Simpsons were banned in Japan because they have 3 fingers which over there is evil...

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 21 Sep 2003, 22:24

chux wrote:
bob wrote:it is said that more then 10 spiders, in your whole life, will crawl down your mouth when you are sleeping.
More than 20...youre still right though

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 21 Sep 2003, 23:27

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night

The worlf consumes about four billion tonnes of petroleum a day

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 22 Sep 2003, 09:30

chux wrote:The Simpsons were banned in Japan because they have 3 fingers which over there is evil...

Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't have any pants...
not banned anymore, though.

chux · Post by **chux** » 23 Sep 2003, 18:16

Earth has a second moon, it is only 3 miles across and orbits every 7x years...

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 23 Sep 2003, 18:28

chux wrote:Earth has a second moon, it is only 3 miles across and orbits every 7x years...

it has? cool.

Vaitork · Post by **Vaitork** » 24 Sep 2003, 01:58

Our moon has a name. It's called Selene

bob · Post by **bob** » 24 Sep 2003, 03:41

average male has 11 erections per day - 9 during sleep and 2 during day

Mick · Post by **Mick** » 24 Sep 2003, 13:49

only 11? i must be some kind of super human then.

magicman · Post by **magicman** » 24 Sep 2003, 21:25

bob wrote:average male has 11 erections per day - 9 during sleep and 2 during day

what ppl did they ask that question for? age of 50 and over ?

Revolt · Post by **Revolt** » 24 Sep 2003, 22:25

Mick wrote:only 11? i must be some kind of super human then.

hehe mick

your eyes can distiguish 250 shades of grey

10 species of animals go extinct every hour

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 25 Sep 2003, 07:52

Revolt wrote: your eyes can distiguish 250 shades of grey

Hmmm... the human eye can distinguish BILLIONS of colors, so why should there be only 250 greys??

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 25 Sep 2003, 18:35

zworqy wrote:
Revolt wrote: your eyes can distiguish 250 shades of grey
Hmmm... the human eye can distinguish BILLIONS of colors, so why should there be only 250 greys??

The human eye can discern somewhere around 16 million colors, though it varies from person to person.

Revolt is probably thinking about the amount of colors a computer monitor can display (256). Of course, there are more than exactly 256 shades of gray in the world, and it's impossible to say exactly what makes one shade different from another. Look at the two words below. Can you tell that they're different shades?

GRAY
GRAY

The difference between those are the smallest a computer can display, and as you can see it's more than enough to confuse the human eye.

dz · Post by dz » 26 Sep 2003, 09:49

gray is apparently a verb form of grey, like if you paint ur car with grey you'll gray it.

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 26 Sep 2003, 10:23

MagnusB wrote:
zworqy wrote:
Revolt wrote: your eyes can distiguish 250 shades of grey
Hmmm... the human eye can distinguish BILLIONS of colors, so why should there be only 250 greys??
The human eye can discern somewhere around 16 million colors, though it varies from person to person.

Revolt is probably thinking about the amount of colors a computer monitor can display (256). Of course, there are more than exactly 256 shades of gray in the world, and it's impossible to say exactly what makes one shade different from another. Look at the two words below. Can you tell that they're different shades?

GRAY
GRAY

The difference between those are the smallest a computer can display, and as you can see it's more than enough to confuse the human eye.

isnt the upper "GRAY" slightly darker than the other ??

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 26 Sep 2003, 11:32

BarTek wrote:Its spelled

GREY

by the way!

(yes i do grammar correction wow)

You can use both, it's probably one of those moronic British/American nuances.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gray
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=grey

petsen wrote:isnt the upper "GRAY" slightly darker than the other ??

Yes, about 0,4% darker.

Napoleon · Post by **Napoleon** » 26 Sep 2003, 13:56

If a rabit fucks more than 30 secs in row, it'll die

bob · Post by **bob** » 26 Sep 2003, 14:20

evil is live spelt backwards

and guess w0t, bob is bob spelt backwards

chux · Post by **chux** » 27 Sep 2003, 14:25

bob wrote:bob is bob spelt backwards

Now im scared

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 8 Dec 2003, 08:20

ok this could actually be a brilliant topic, well imo anyway
so heres to restart it on a new page

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2. The "57" on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the varieties of pickles the company once carried.

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

6. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and downcontinuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

8. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

10. Every person has a unique tongue print.

11. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

12. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

13. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

14. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

17. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

18. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

21. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

24. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper and 'lower' because, in the time when all original print had to be set one by one, individually, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

25. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver.

27. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded "Wendy" before.

28. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Another FYI: it took him ten years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

29. Put a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

30. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

31. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask, painted white.

32. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

33. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the "Victorola", so they named themselves "Motorola".

34. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

35. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery, than the celery has IN it to begin with.

36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

38. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

39. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages the suit.

40. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 8 Dec 2003, 08:21

Next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children and last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could really lose someone in it - hence the saying,
"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw, piled high, with no wood
underneath.

It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice rats, and bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof-hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other dropping could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entry way-hence, a "threshold."

They cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while-hence the rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Most people did not have pewter plates, but had trenchers, a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Often trenchers were made from stale Payton bread, which was so old and hard that they could use them for quite some time. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worm and mold got into the wood and old bread. After eating off wormy moldy trenchers, one would get "trench mouth."

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up-hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small and they started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the
graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer"

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