Useless Information Thread

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:05 pm

So he got back at them by being a successful musician making parody songs!

Vegas · Post by **Vegas** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:41 pm

Originally, Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter) would have been leader of the Sailor Soldiers, been a juvenile delinquent, and would have been a smoker. Instead, Takeuchi decided to just make her LOOK like a delinquent, which is a great foil to her kind and loving nature.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:29 pm

Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:00 pm

Last.) Afghan

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:18 pm

The most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've Lost That Loving Feeling which was written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil. Although recorded by different artists, the song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back! Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order).

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:53 am

The mouthpiece on a tin whistle or recorder and other similar instruments is properly known as a "fipple".

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:15 pm

A South Korean movie theater owner decided that the movie The Sound of Music was too long. His solution? He shortened the movie by cutting out all of the musical scenes!

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 4:27 pm

Here's a little something I figured out myself;

You've all probably been told all your life that nothing rhymes with the word "orange"

...no word that has two syllibals on its own anyway.

How about "syringe"?

I wonder if I blew a few minds with that one?

Vegas · Post by **Vegas** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:02 pm

The Sailor Moon S movie is the only one of the Sailor Moon movies to be directly based off a story by Naoko Takeuchi, the original creator of Sailor Moon. The Sailor Moon SuperS movie was originally going to be about Uranus battling the other Sailor Soldiers to gain talismans to save the life of Sailor Neptune and would have ended with Sailor Moon chasing Sailor Uranus on a pegasus. Ikuhara, who pitched the idea and worked on Sailor Moon through R, S, and SuperS, was over ruled, so he took the story elements and created Revolutionary Girl Utena. Another connection to Sailor Moon comes from the fact Kotono Mitsuishi, the voice of Sailor Moon, also voiced the character Juri, the only character Utena couldn't beat in direct battle.
Just for fun, compare this clip to this clip. Juri is the one with blond/orange hair.

Post by **ArcWolf** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:09 pm

The Blue Fox wrote:Here's a little something I figured out myself;

You've all probably been told all your life that nothing rhymes with the word "orange"

...no word that has two syllibals on its own anyway.

How about "syringe"?

I wonder if I blew a few minds with that one?

I guess it depends on how you pronounce it, because it doesn't seem to rhyme to me.

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 9:10 am

ArcWolf wrote:
The Blue Fox wrote:Here's a little something I figured out myself;

You've all probably been told all your life that nothing rhymes with the word "orange"

...no word that has two syllibals on its own anyway.

How about "syringe"?

I wonder if I blew a few minds with that one?

I guess it depends on how you pronounce it, because it doesn't seem to rhyme to me.

Really? Coz I've only known one pronuciation for each word...one where the the "g" sounds like a "j".

Oh-ran-juh
Sih-rin-juh

That's a rhyme to me.

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:07 am

Yeah, I don't think orange rhymes with syringe all that much.

However, the rumour that nothing rhymes with orange is incorrect.

Post by **Obbl** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 12:43 pm

I concur.

Orange - /ˈôrənj/
Syringe - /ˈsirinj/ or /səˈrinj/

Either way, that's trying to rhyme an "uh" sound with an "ih" sound.
Now I will give you that my pronunciation of "orange" is much closer to an "eh" sound (which is closer to "ih" than "uh"), but still no dice.

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:49 pm

Maybe it's my Mancunian accent. I say 'em more like "Oh-rin-chuh" and "Sy-rin-chuh" really. XD

Also from what I can gather of Obbl's post you seem to be looking at the pronuciation of the middle of the word there when really you just need the ends of the words to sound alike.

But that's just my perspective.

Post by **Obbl** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:57 pm

Well, If you'll note, I do not have a vowel after my 'j' sound, so I am indeed rhyming the final vowel.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:56 am

Actually, for a true rhyme, the whole word will rhyme, like "pocket" and "locket" or "sing" and "spring". What you have there is known as a partial rhyme.

Which, come to think of it, is a kind of rhyme...

The Blue Fox · Post by **The Blue Fox** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 4:09 am

Partial rhyme is still a rhyme. Exact-a-mundo.

Now the poets of the world have just gotta work out how to fit a poem around "Orange" and "Syringe". XD

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 5:23 am

The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge (also known as the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, or simply the 520 Bridge) is the longest floating bridge in the world.
It carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Medina to the Montlake district of Seattle.
It currently sits 1ft lower in the water than when it first opened.

Shadowstar23 · Post by **Shadowstar23** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:10 pm

In my house, there is a sign that says " Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:28 am

Like this one? XD

Bucky-Roo · Post by **Bucky-Roo** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 12:10 pm

My birthday is on National Shower With A Friend Day. .-. Maybe too much information...

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:15 pm

deepskycyan wrote:Like this one? XD

Probably best to play dead then.

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:17 pm

Click it, then read them all. There is alt text!

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:45 am

Leishmania is parasite native to warm, tropic regions. they can be transmitted by sandfly bites and cause the disease known as Leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a disease where pustules form on the skin from the parasites
gorging themselves on flesh. They can spread to the face where it becomes Mucotaneous Leishmaniasis.

I'm thinking on becoming a parasitologist, do you think I know this parasite well?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:57 pm

Leishmaniasis is also known as the flesh eating disease.

I got that from watching "Discovery Fit & Health"

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:19 pm

Necrotizing fasciitis is another flesh eating disease, but this time with bacteria instead
of something parasitic.

Good to know someone's heard of Leishmaniasis before.
Kudos to Amazee Dayzee.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:37 pm

Actually I think Discovery Fit and Health did a lot more on the subject of Necrotizing fasciitis. Other viruses that horrify me are Naegleria fowler, the brain eating amoeba with a mortality rate higher than 95%, and the hantavirus which comes from rats which has a mortality rate of 36% if you don't figure it out in time.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:51 pm

Naegleria fowleri was featured in "Monsters Inside Me", one of my
favorite shows. It gave a boy who went wakeboarding in a lake, one of it's natural
habitats, Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (the disease that gives the organism
the nickname). He didn't make it and the lake he got the parasite was in his own backyard.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 12:58 am

The Sopwith Camel shot down more aircraft than any other aircraft in WWI.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:19 am

Pyrexia is the medical name for a fever.

now you know...

Vegas · Post by **Vegas** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:43 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Actually I think Discovery Fit and Health did a lot more on the subject of Necrotizing fasciitis. Other viruses that horrify me are Naegleria fowler, the brain eating amoeba with a mortality rate higher than 95%, and the hantavirus which comes from rats which has a mortality rate of 36% if you don't figure it out in time.

InDaZone1219 wrote:Naegleria fowleri was featured in "Monsters Inside Me", one of my
favorite shows. It gave a boy who went wakeboarding in a lake, one of it's natural
habitats, Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (the disease that gives the organism
the nickname). He didn't make it and the lake he got the parasite was in his own backyard.

Wasn't this the amoeba that forced Disney to close part of their park? Let's see, the River Country waterpark in Walt Disney World?
EDIT: actually, not quite, according to this article. Though the same amoeba was in River Country.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:24 pm

Vegas wrote: Wasn't this the amoeba that forced Disney to close part of their park? Let's see, the River Country waterpark in Walt Disney World?
EDIT: actually, not quite, according to this article. Though the same amoeba was in River Country.

That's what they get for using a nearby, perfectly temperate lake, for their water park. One slipped through the filtration unit and entered the body through an orifice, then gorged on brain tissues.

They can also encyst themselves to avoid immune response. Once enough Leukocytes attach themselves to the amoeba, the amoeba just sheds the cyst and keeps consuming tissue.

Vegas · Post by **Vegas** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:16 pm

InDaZone1219 wrote:
Vegas wrote: Wasn't this the amoeba that forced Disney to close part of their park? Let's see, the River Country waterpark in Walt Disney World?
EDIT: actually, not quite, according to this article. Though the same amoeba was in River Country.
That's what they get for using a nearby, perfectly temperate lake, for their water park. One slipped through the filtration unit and entered the body through an orifice, then gorged on brain tissues.

They can also encyst themselves to avoid immune response. Once enough Leukocytes attach themselves to the amoeba, the amoeba just sheds the cyst and keeps consuming tissue.

Well, at least they went ahead and worked to make sure the problem never came back. Must have worked if they had that part of the park open for twenty more years.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 5:31 pm

Good thing it wasn't Cryptosporidium hominis, which are known to have an immunity to Chlorine in water
treatment plants. The water treatment plants have since been upgraded.

Mickey the Luxray · Post by **Mickey the Luxray** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:48 pm

There is a conspiracy theory that links D.B. Cooper and Tommy Wiseau as the same person.

XKCD #1400 explains the basic theory. While it is likely untrue, it's still a funny thing to see floating around.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:32 pm

InDaZone1219 wrote:Good thing it wasn't Cryptosporidium hominis, which are known to have an immunity to Chlorine in water
treatment plants. The water treatment plants have since been upgraded.

That was another one that was on "Monsters Inside Me". I should stop falling asleep while leaving Discovery Fit and Health on. x_x

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:52 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:
InDaZone1219 wrote:Good thing it wasn't Cryptosporidium hominis, which are known to have an immunity to Chlorine in water
treatment plants. The water treatment plants have since been upgraded.
That was another one that was on "Monsters Inside Me". I should stop falling asleep while leaving Discovery Fit and Health on. x_x

You'll never know what's lurking in your environment...

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:53 pm

I'm gonna start washing everything I eat and scrubbing it so that I don't get any sicknesses.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 12:22 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote:I'm gonna start washing everything I eat and scrubbing it so that I don't get any sicknesses.

Watch out for mosquitoes and sandflies too.
Then there are Human Bot Files that tackle and lay eggs on a mosquito during
mid-flight. This is so when the mosquito goes to suck blood from a human, the heat of
the blood causes the eggs to fall onto the skin. The larvae hatch and eat their way into
the skin and thrive with their posterior breathing hole sticking out and barbs to hold
themselves in place. This is so they harm the human when they are trying to be extracted
from their burrows. After maturing, they leave the skin and take down another mosquito.
Did I mention that they can stretch to about a foot long when being extracted?

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 5:08 am

Right when I was eating breakfast too...
I prefer parasitic wasps. Wasps that kill off roaches and other bugs are the only kind of wasp I actually like.