Useless Information Thread

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:16 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:So my tiny little Pekinese puppy is 15 instead of 7? God I hate math sometimes.

Blame biology.

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:04 pm

In the Lion King, Scars name before he was "Scar" was "Taka."

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:14 pm

Speaking of Lion King, Kovu was gonna be Scar's son at first, until they realized that it would make Kiara and Kovu incestuous. Kovu being Scar's son meant that he would be Mufasa's nephew and Simba's first cousin and Kiara and Kovu first cousins once removed. So they made him the son of an unknown lion that his mother Zira was with before she got with Scar. Nuka and Vitani are Kovu's half-brother and half-sister and Kiara's first cousins once removed. If Kiara and Kovu were to have a child, it would be the first cousin twice removed and the niece/nephew of Vitani and Nuka.

Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:58 am

Deske wrote:In the Lion King, Scars name before he was "Scar" was "Taka."

Taka is swahili for dirt (or trash, I've seen a couple translations). Makes sense why he changed his name.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:25 am

The longest running US television show us NBC's Meet the Press which has been running for 67 years since it started on November 7, 1947.

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:20 pm

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Deske wrote:In the Lion King, Scars name before he was "Scar" was "Taka."
Taka is swahili for dirt (or trash, I've seen a couple translations). Makes sense why he changed his name.

I'd say the name works, actually! He's African and he's scummy. Seems fair.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:21 am

Some animals, like the western spotted skunk, are able to delay their pregnancies for months.

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 2:55 pm

This will be my first post in the 500 club.

This will also most likely be the most useless piece of information on this page

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:18 pm

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

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 11:25 pm

Men can, under certain circumstances, lactate in much the same way as a Women.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 12:55 am

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:21 am

My dad's barber's name is Corey.
How much more useless can you get than that? ^^;

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:28 pm

My barber is my mom's first cousin so my first cousin once removed.

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 11:58 pm

Mario was named after the landlord of Nintendo USA HQ.

Also, this post is a post.
Much more useless than dad's barber's name.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:38 am

Female kangaroos are called jills and male kangaroos are called...

Wait for it...

Jacks! *giggles* But you can also call them bucks or boomers and there's a few other names for female roos too.

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:17 pm

Arctic foxes can sense the magnetic field of the earth and we use it for surgical, deadly strikes to unaware prey.

>:3

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:53 pm

Sleet wrote:Arctic foxes can sense the magnetic field of the earth and we use it for surgical, deadly strikes to unaware prey.

>:3

Other foxes also have this unique ability. Of course it only works if they're facing northeast or southwest (with around a 60 - 75% success rate), otherwise their odds of success drop drastically (<20%)

Post by **ArcWolf** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:09 pm

You're reading a forum post.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:56 pm

People think I'm named after a Full House character. My name being "DJ" or "Danielle Jean".

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:05 pm

Blacksmithing takes a lot of stamina. Also, everything smells and tastes like coal after using a coal-fired forge, even ~~hours~~ a day afterward.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:25 pm

My Pekinese puppy named Peah (tongue twister) thinks barking at things that have fallen down or doors that shut will make them come to her or make doors open.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:55 am

Foxes make a sound called gekkering when they are fighting or feel threatened. Or when someone they are close to is threatend.

Also, foxes are amazingly cute.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:56 am

Everyone already knows that. And it's hardly useless, it's one of the most useful things to know out there! ^_^

The little black specks in bananas are seeds. They've been bred to be so tiny they can't be noticed. They also don't even work anymore.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:27 pm

Bagpipes weren't invented in Scotland, but in ancient Persia.

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:22 pm

Sonic's arms are blue in Sonic Boom, not tan like other games.

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:54 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:Female kangaroos are called jills and male kangaroos are called...

Wait for it...

Jacks! *giggles* But you can also call them bucks or boomers and there's a few other names for female roos too.

when younger my sister gave me the nickname Joey, because of my name starting with Jo (you wont get the rest of the name sorry) and she liked baby kangaroos.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:45 pm

Although commonly associated with France, the piano accordion was actually invented in Germany.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:02 pm

That doesn't surprise me - Beethoven and Bach, two of the most famous classical composers of all time, were German.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:33 am

Obsessive nose picking is called rhinotillexomania.

Whozjama · Post by **Whozjama** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:22 am

Precordial catch syndrome is a common cause of chest pain in children and adolescents.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:15 pm

The U.S. Marine Corps is actually older than the United States itself, having been founded in 1775.

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:34 pm

French fries really originate from Belgium, and Panama hat really originates from Ecuador.

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:14 pm

The hamburger comes from Hamburg Germany, hence the name.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:05 am

In the election of 1968, Wilt Chamberlain endorsed and campaigned for Richard Nixon

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 7:06 am

Get this. The elephant, Tai, who played Rosie in the recent film Water For Elephants is the same elephant who played Shep from George of the Jungle!

Mind = Blown!

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:17 am

Sleet wrote:Arctic foxes can sense the magnetic field of the earth and we use it for surgical, deadly strikes to unaware prey.

>:3

There's a lot neat useless fox facts.
Red fox's take off at a 40 degree angle when pouncing on their prey. Similarly, 45 degrees is the optimal angle that's necessary for a missile to travel the greatest distance when launched.

Fox's can physics pretty well.

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:54 am

Speaking of, humans can also (subconsciously) sense the magnetic field of the Earth. We've got slightly magnetic bones in our nose and some field-detecting function in our eyes. But magnetoception in humans is nowhere near developed and researchers are still researching.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:55 pm

The first private detective agency was established in 1833 by Eugene Francois Vidocq, a former fugitive. He used his extensive knowledge of the Parisian underworld to become a master criminologist. Vidocq was a pioneer in the use of surveillance and disguise, ballistics, card-index record keeping, and was the first to use plaster-of-paris to take impressions of shoe prints.

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:41 pm

Sleet wrote:The little black specks in bananas are seeds. They've been bred to be so tiny they can't be noticed. They also don't even work anymore.

Well, unless you count the two ancestors of all modern 'seedless' bananas cultivars, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Both of these old banana species have large seeds about the size of a BB, hence making it almost inedible because of how hard the seed are. The hybrid between the two serves as the basis for the 'seedless' bananas we have today.

Both acuminata and balbiasa are still available in the jungles of South and South East Asia, where they grow wild, and usually eaten by monkeys. My mum, who lived in a village near a jungle, used to climb up one of these trees every morning and eat these bananas. She told me that you could actually collect and spit out the seeds like you would watermelon seeds. Weird stuff =w=

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:43 pm

40℉ = 40℃