This is the thread where we find stuff on the Internet that you will probably never need in real life.

Who wants to learn some flag semaphore?

I wholeheartedly support this thread. :3

Here's a radiation dosage chart. Apparently, eating a banana gives you a .1 micro-Seivert dose.

Now we know!

And knowing is half the battle.

Elephants cannot jump

Dogs can't look up

Through all my injuries over the years, major burns, infections, deep lacerations ect. I have never been a patient in a hospital.
Regardless of relative speed nothing can actually be in front of a wave of light.

They totally can!

That was a plot point in Shaun of the Dead I think.

Yes it as, and what a useful and meaningful subplot it was.

Yeah it was.
It's my favorite bit from that movie actually

and they totally can't!

They can when they lie on their backs!

It is impossible to determine the exact position or velocity of a particle in space.

I'd say the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is far from useless.

Unlit camel cigarettes smell vaugely of fig newtons

Mickey Mouse was once banned in Romania in the year 1935 for fears that the children might be spooked by a 10-foot mouse on the cinema screen.

Well I'll be. Furries freaked people out then too!

If you ever fight a bear, you can strike it's nose, and 50% of the time, it will leave you alone. :U

The powerpuff girls where first called "The Whoop*** Girls"
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well, for Wolverine you have to specify which series, seeing as there were a few before he started.

I will refrain from posting approximatly 99% of all mathematical equations on this thread. just know that it is undeniably true

Mathematical equations are not useless!
Mathematics is a very helpful tool that can be used to describe naturally arising phenomena, quantity, structure, shape, change, and relationships.What constitutes the notion of useless anyway? Mathematical equations are simply there to state the relationship of two expressions. There is also an infinite amount of mathematical equations, so you could not possibly write all the useless ones here anyway. Because mathematical equations can be created indiscriminately, there will be infinite numbers of useless mathematical equations and infinite numbers of useful mathematical equations depending on your definition of useless.

I have an inkling that someone will come here and attempt to disprove this completely...

The uncertainty principle is not really something that everyone has to know. Although it is extremely important in quantum mechanics, most people do not really need to know much about quantum mechanics. Or maybe it is useful and we will need to use it everyday from now on...

I was confused at first when I first saw this, but apparently you're talking about the English voice actor. XD
I've only watched Digimon with English subs, so I never knew.

Anyway, the Japanese seiyuu (voice actor) for Guilmon is the same as Son Goku from Dragon Ball, and is a 75-years-old woman named Masako Nozawa.

Also, any piece of string or pliable, thin and slender thing like rope or earphone cable, that is longer than 46cm will always get tangled if left on its own in a container (like a bag, your pocket etc)

In France the Disny Pixar movie "The Incredables" is called "The Indistructables" (Les Indistructables), dispite the fact that the French word for incredable (incroyable) is actually better!

I concur with the above statement
Math equations are indeed useless to the majority of the populace.

Depends what you mean by math equations. Math equations in general are useful to 100% of the population.

Phospholipids are kinky.

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Full of kinks. Yep. What did you think I meant?

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The only useless equations are ones that will never be true. For example: x=x+1 . No value of x can satisfy this equation, it can lead to a fallacy of 0=1.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The only planet without a ring is Earth.
Starfishes have no brains.
Turtles can breath through their butts.

*chuckle*




I don't understand them
thus they are magic
because they are magic and I am not a wizard they are useless to me

Does this mean I'm a wizard?

Yes! *points his/her science wand at you* QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM!

Congratualtions on becoming a wizard and a global mod in the same week!

War never Changes

"Here, look at this Metal Gear Solid 4 skit we did last week."
"War has changed"
"And now look at this Fallout 3 skit we did yesterday."
"War never changes"
"See? They all think they're making poignant philosophical statements but really they're just filled with overly poetic, shallow, interchangeable garbage."

Sorry I couldn't help it :p

"War...War never changes...or does it? The war has changed...did it? The answer is no....unless it is yes. No! Of course it is! Is war. Yes! No...yes?" - Duty Calls

I love it, either way

JGL beats Chuck Norris by infinity.

not NaNoWriMo. that's 50,000 word novels.

That's a lot of words to type.

It has been scientifically proven that dogs can experience basic jealousy towards others in their species.
Although dogs seem to be really popular as a pet, there is a higher number of pet owners who has a cat in the United States.
(can't remember where I read this from, a scientific journal I think)

Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.

Most toilets flush in E flat.

A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.

Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

Useful/useless information:

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
There are 293 ways to make change for a US dollar.

Necco wafers?

Hardtack?