Useless Information Thread

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 1:54 pm

The Intellivision, released in 1979, 2nd generation, is 16bit while Turbografx16/PcEngine, released in 1987(J) and 1989(U), 4th generation, is 8bit

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:54 pm

Each year, about 450 men die of breast cancer in America.

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 5:46 am

Punchy wrote:At 16-0, the Golden State Warriors hold the NBA record for best start to a season.

And that record ends with 24 wins to start the season following a loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.
Counting the final four games of last season, the Golden State Warriors had a 28-game winning streak.
The NBA's longest winning streak was 33 by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1971-72 - and it was also snapped by Milwaukee.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 5:22 pm

Carter Lake, a unique Iowa town bound by the Nebraska state line, is nestled among land legally within city limits of Omaha, Nebraska.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:36 pm

Searching "sabrina cat" on Google gives you pics of a black cat.

(It would be of one sitcom, I dunno)

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:39 pm

tsMKG wrote:Searching "sabrina cat" on Google gives you pics of a black cat.

(It would be of one sitcom, I dunno)

Salem, of Sabrina Teenage Witch fame!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:47 pm

Have some fun presidential history for you.

There were 21 presidents that only serviced one term out of 44 presidents which mean 48% of the presidents we had served one term. \

The presidents that served only one term are John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Harrison, John Tyler, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William Taft, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr.

From 1837 to 1961, the US only had one term presidents them being Martin Van Buren, William Harrison, John Tyler, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan.

Gerald Ford was the shortest one term president who left the office alive and the fifth one term president that had the shortest term. The shortest were William Harrison, James Garfield, Zachary Taylor, Warren Harding and then Gerald Ford. All except Ford died in office.

George Bush Sr. was the last one term president that the US had.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:13 am

Talking about presidents, Argentina in only ten days, had five presidents.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 2:23 am

The "Q" in Q-tips stands for quality. They were originally called Baby Gays.

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:59 am

"Kaki kakakku kaku" and "kaki kakakku kekok" are valid Malay sentences. They mean "my sister's foot is stiff" and "my sister's foot feels awkward".

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:24 pm

Why would someone admit to somebody that their sister's foot is weird when she won't admit it? :/

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 10:12 pm

John Williams' first film score to win him an academy award for best score was his score for Fiddler on the Roof.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:39 am

November 1st is All Hallows Day and November 2nd is All Souls' Day.

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 1:47 am

The famous Duel of the Fates from Star Wars: Episode I is in Sanskrit, translated from Welsh.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 4:34 pm

Presidents and their causes of death (Warning! Morbid! Don't read if you don't wanna know how each president died)

George Washington - Pneumonia
John Adams - Heart Failure
Thomas Jefferson - Amoebic Dysentery
James Madison - Bilious Fever
James Monroe - Tuberculosis
John Quincy Adams - Stroke
Andrew Jackson - Tuberculosis
Martin Van Buren -Asthmatic Suffocation
William Harrison - Pleurisy
John Tyler - Bilious Fever
James Polk - Gastroenteritis
Zachary Taylor - Heat Stroke
Millard Fillmore - Cerebral Hemorrhage
Franklin Pierce - Gastritis
James Buchanan - Respiratory Failure
Abraham Lincoln - Shot to death
Andrew Johnson - Stroke
Ulysses Grant - Oral Cancer
Rutherford Hayes - Heart Attack
James Garfield - Shot to death
Chester Arthur - Bright’s Disease
Grover Cleveland - Heart Attack
Benjamin Harrison - Pneumonia
William McKinley - Shot to death
Theodore Roosevelt - Coronary Embolism
William Taft - Heart Attack
Woodrow Wilson - Apoplexy
Warren Harding - Apoplexy
Calvin Coolidge - Heart Failure
Herbert Hoover - Exsanguination from weakened gastrointestinal tract
Franklin Roosevelt - Cerebral Hemorrhage
Harry Truman - Pulmonary Edema
Dwight Eisenhower - Coronation Thrombosis
John Kennedy - Shot to death
Lyndon Johnson - Heart Failure
Richard Nixon - Stroke
Gerald Ford - Stroke
Ronald Reagan - Pneumonia

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 6:15 am

In 1997, Charles Woodson became the second defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy. Woodson received 282 more voting points than runner-up Peyton Manning.
Charles Woodson is one of the few players in NFL history to play in a Pro Bowl in three different decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s).
He is currently sixth on the all time interceptions list with 65, and is tied with Rod Woodson and Darren Sharper for most career defensive touchdowns with 13. He also is second all time in interceptions returned for touchdowns, with 11.

Really enjoyed watching this guy play, sad that he's retiring after this season.

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 7:06 am

Any length of string or something similar like earphone cords and USB wires will always become entangled when placed unrestrained inside a container, but only if the string is longer than 40cm (16in).

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 4:49 pm

Worldwide, the biggest killer of males is cardiovascular disease. The least common killer of males worldwide is breast cancer.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 6:57 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Worldwide, the biggest killer of males is cardiovascular disease. The least common killer of males worldwide is breast cancer.

I'd have thought the biggest killer of males was testosterone.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 1:41 am

The biggest killer of males is the internet providing us with a far more efficient means of communicating long-distance.

...Wait.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:50 pm

LOL. I get that some guys can do a lot of stupid things but apparently to statistics, its heart problems that kill.

Though the stupid things might be what causes the heart to stop dead.

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:54 pm

The most commercially successful virtual band is Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 5:12 pm

The first Western explorer to land on what is now known as New Zealand was a Dutchman named Abel Tasman. When he arrived in the 1640s, Tasman thought he had landed on a portion of Staten Landt, which is an island off the tip of Argentina, and he named it so. (Tasman was a little confused; it had been a long trip).

Soon after, Dutch cartographers Hendrik Brouwer and Joan Blaeu figured out that these large islands weren't actually part of South America, and Blaeu named the area Nieuw Zeeland after Zeeland, the westernmost province of the Netherlands. Zeeland is also made of islands, and its name means "sea land" in Dutch.

Englishman James Cook made three voyages to Nieuw Zeeland in the 1770s. The purpose of his original trip was to chart the path of Venus from the South Pacific, but Cook and his crew got lost and ended up in Nieuw Zeeland, which was relatively unexplored by Westerners since Tasman's original voyage. Cook charted most of the area's coastline, and he is responsible for anglicizing the name to "New Zealand."

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 12:04 am

Fact: An episode of the children's show "Peppa Pig" was banned from broadcast in Australia because it taught children not to be afraid of spiders.

Fact: Australia is home to the Australian Funnel-web Spider. One of the deadliest and most aggressive spiders on earth.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:42 pm

Seal's full name is Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel.

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:47 am

The so-called Minute Waltz is several nested misnomers; it's not the "minnit" waltz, as in a waltz that lasts 60 seconds, but a "mynute" waltz, as in a small waltz. But that's a nickname given later; the "official" nickname is Valse du Petit Chien, or "Waltz of the Little Dog." Frederic Chopin, however, only gave formulaic titles to his compositions, so its official name wasn't even that. It was Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64, No. 1.

It takes about a minute and a half to play properly.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:34 pm

The familiar piano tune we know as “Chopsticks” was written by a 16-year-old girl in 1877 and was published as “The Celebrated Chop Waltz.”

JamesTCat · Post by **JamesTCat** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:14 pm

Ever wonder why serial numbers are on the Twilight Zone playfield when the blacklight shines bright? the Internet Pinball Machine Database asked Pat Lawlor about this and this is what he had to say:

The reason for the serial numbers seems strange by today's standards. In 1992, Williams' agreement with its distributors gave them exclusive sales right to a territory. They did not have the right to sell outside of their territory. But some were doing just that. In order to track the game's origin from a distributor into the wild, the blacklight number was added. Williams knew where the game was originally shipped. If the game turned up outside of that territory, it was assumed that the distributor had "Bootlegged" the game outside of his territory. Then it was up to management to decide what penalty to incur on the offender. Remember, this was during a time when it was PROFITABLE to sell and operate pinball machines. This practice would be laughable today because ANY sale of a pinball machine is a good sale.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:47 am

In 1991 Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, married Russi Taylor—the voice of Minnie.

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:17 pm

You drive on the left side of the road in Malaysia

Sun Jan 17, 2016 2:11 am

that's not very useless if you're driving in Malaysia

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 3:30 am

Or any of the other 55 countries where you have to drive on the left-side of the road.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 4:43 am

but driving on the left isn't right ! (har har har).

cats can't taste sweetness , apparently.

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 9:50 am

And dogs don't sweat. But that's common info to furries and Housepets enthusiasts alike

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:25 pm

Well in the HP! universe, I'm wondering if they do sweat because they are a bit anthro.

I can't imagine Kevin, the biggest character around who works out in his spare time panting after lifting a 800 lb dumbbell.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:05 pm

there have been multiple strips where we're shown that they still sweat out of their tongues, so even in that universe , apparently they still don't sweat.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:07 am

That one would have to wonder how Kevin can work out all that much and sweat through his tongue then.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 9:15 am

Not sure if this is useless but:

You can use a 1988 calendar for 2016

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:00 am

The thread with oldest last response is:
http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/vi ... ?f=20&t=29
And the thread with oldest last response that can be replied is:
http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/vi ... p?f=2&t=33
(26 December 2008 12:32am)

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 2:18 pm

The Baltimore Ravens football team of the National Football League is the only team in history to be named after the title of a poem: "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was not from Baltimore, but he lived there for short periods. In 1849, he died there while visiting the city on business.