useless facts

[camzaro28]

since we waste our time on this site anyway, here is another thread to waste your time on

The "black box" in commercial airliners is actually orange.
(see Commercial Jet Airliners)

Native Americans all have type O blood.
(see Blood Types)

Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies bathroom.

"Spheno Palatine Gangleoneuralgia" is the technical term for an ice cream headache.

Bottled water costs about 1,000 times more than tap water.

The acid in a vulture's stomach can dissolve a nail.

The three wise men were named Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.

Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again Sam" in the film Casablanca.

Venus rotates in the opposite direction from the other planets.

Tapeworms can grow to 80 feet long.

A dragonfly can fly backwards just as fast as it can forwards.

Basketball was invented in the United States in 1891.

Mercaptan in asparagus is what causes urine to smell.

Lachrymatory-factor synthase in onions is what makes you cry.

You cannot lose a contact lens in the back of your head.

Pigs don't sweat.

Like a cow, an elk has four stomachs.

Eric Clapton's given birth name was Patrick Clapp.

The metallic element gallium can melt in your hand.

The average speed of a man's orgasm is 28 MPH.

There are no fish living in the Dead Sea.

It is illegal to lick toads in Arizona.

The largest kidney stone weighed 14 pounds.

Frogs don't drink water.

[Guest]

camzaro28 wrote:
Native Americans all have type O blood.
(see Blood Types)

Untrue, [font=verdana][font=verdana][color=#000000]in 1959, a study found that Blackfoot indians were only 17% type O and 82% type A. I am 1/4 native american, and my blood type is AB negative.
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[TakeYourTopOff]

a dragon fly can actually fly in any direction just as fast as forward...

the acid in a human stomach is also one of the strongest acids knowen (can also disolve a nail very easly)

It is illegal to lick toads in Arizona. brother told me about this when he came back from 29 palms califorina (one of the largest us marine bases) it's cause of the strong hallucinogenic properties of a secretion from them!!!

pretty interesting time killers thought

[STiSchucky]

toad licking can also be known as lillypadding, frenching the prince and doing kermit(family guy shout out)

[Jim]

LOL i was just going to say that kirk... as soon as i heard toad licking i thought of family guy...

Meg are you on the toad?

[out there]

TakeYourTopOff wrote:
the acid in a human stomach is also one of the strongest acids knowen (can also disolve a nail very easly)
i'm not sure about the molarity of the acid in the human stomach, but hydrochloric is considered a strong acid because it ionizes completely into H+ and X-
for more useless facts, check out the uncle john's bathroom reader

[bluejays]

out there wrote:
i'm not sure about the molarity of the acid in the human stomach, but hydrochloric is considered a strong acid because it ionizes completely into H+ and X-
for more useless facts, check out the uncle john's bathroom reader

isn't the acid in a humans stomache HCL?

[Jim]

From what I remember from school, it is HCL

[out there]

i didn't write what i meant.... HCl is a strong acid because it ionizes completely into H+ and Cl-
a weak acid is something that doesn't ionize completely. acetic acid is one, H+ and C2H3O2 and C2H3OOH are the items in a solution of acetic acid because it doesn't ionize completely.
strength is a bit ambiguous here. strong doesn't necessarily mean dangerous, it just refers to how well it will ionize into water. molarity and concentration refer to how strong it is in the sense that most people think, ie how well it will dissolve something. does that make sense?

[camzaro28]

makes absolutely no sense at all. maybe i should go back to school. maybe in my next life