Useless Facts

[oWinqs]

damn can i be a naked mole rat

An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.

 

[rosalinda316]

Guinea pigs, like humans, can not self produce vitamin C, they must get it through their diet

 

[oWinqs]

The fastest serve in a game of tennis was in 1963 by Michael Sangster. It was clocked at 154 miles per hour.

 

[Nezuko_Chan__]

if a 5 cent coin collapsed into a black hole, the explosion that comes after radiating away will be 3 times bigger than hiroshima's explosion

 

[oWinqs]

A hydrodaktulpsychicharmonica is a variety of musical glasses.

 

[lolol]

One third of divorce filings have the word "Facebook"

 

[rosalinda316]

Malaria's transmission can be prevented via Viagra!

(The transmission stage of the malaria parasite matures in the bone marrow forming a needle like shape before loosening up and forming a more wobbly shape when its ready to enter the blood stream and be sucked up by the mosquito. Viagra forces the parasite to maintain its stiff needle like form and prevents it from being released into the blood stream to spread.)

 

[oWinqs]

A full loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least twenty minutes to stop.

 

[lolol]

Pineapples were named after pinecones

 

[oWinqs]

Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

 

[rosalinda316]

Spiders can fly up to several kilometers through the air.

 

[oWinqs]

In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks.

 

[lolol]

Less than 1% of blind people in the UK can read braille

 

[rosalinda316]

Cola can be used to remove blood stains

 

[oWinqs]

The state of Florida is bigger than England

 

[rosalinda316]

Rice has more genes than a person

 

[oWinqs]

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

 

[lolol]

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with "woman"

 

[oWinqs]

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

 

[Nezuko_Chan__]

the biggest galaxy in the universe is roughly 100 millions lightyears wide, for reference, our own galaxy, the milky way, is only 100K lightyears wide