Useless Knowledge

[Rob]

If you have been chopping onions, rubbing your hands with stainless steel will instantly remove the smell from them.

Funny you should say that, cos I got a stainless steel egg type thing for Xmas and needed it explained to me! It seems to really work - goodness only knows how.

 

[Becky]

Making bread gets your hands really clean!

Eww, does that mean all the dirt from your hands gets stuck to the bread dough or summat!?! :lmao:

 

[Hertz van Rental]

Bruce Lee appeared in two episodes of the Batman TV series.

 

[Rob]

Jean-Claude Van Damme was the man in the Predator suit in some scenes in the movie Predator.

Rob

 

[Hertz van Rental]

I'm the only person to have photographed Spitting Image working in the studio :mrgreen:

(Chris Barrie - Rimmer in Red Dwarf - was one of the puppeteers)

 

[Verbal]

Jean-Claude Van Damme was the man in the Predator suit in some scenes in the movie Predator.

Rob

Really? I love that movie, and you just ruined it for me

 

['Daniel']

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

like that one^^

 

[woodsac]

This is the longest word:
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS It has 45 letters. It's a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
I had to learn how to spell it in 5th grade and I have never forgot it

 

[Corry]

This is the longest word:
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS It has 45 letters. It's a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
I had to learn how to spell it in 5th grade and I have never forgot it

Hahah...I had a friend in high school that learned that (she was one of those brainy types) and learned how to spell and prounounce it...she went around telling everyone. Haha...this whoe thread has reminded me of her, and I was trying to remember that exact word so I could look it up and put it on here...thanks Woody!

 

[PlasticSpanner]

Eww, does that mean all the dirt from your hands gets stuck to the bread dough or summat!?! :lmao:

:thumbup:

 

[JTHphoto]

Hahah...I had a friend in high school that learned that (she was one of those brainy types) and learned how to spell and prounounce it...she went around telling everyone. Haha...this whoe thread has reminded me of her, and I was trying to remember that exact word so I could look it up and put it on here...thanks Woody!

i had a friend in HS that memorized Pi out to like 30 digits... what a nerd, all i can remember is 3.14159... i feel dorky just knowing it to 5 decimals...

 

[omeletteman]

Daniel's post about surviving shark attacks reminded me of this,
Every year, more people are killed by cows then by sharks.

And, on a completely different note, the maximum number of times you can fold any peice of paper in half is 7 (at least I think it was seven)

63% of all statistics are made up

 

[Hertz van Rental]

Every year, more people are killed by cows then by sharks.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the pasture....

63% of all statistics are made up

Including that one - I'm almost 99% certain.

 

[wolfepakt]

i had a friend in HS that memorized Pi out to like 30 digits... what a nerd, all i can remember is 3.14159... i feel dorky just knowing it to 5 decimals...

I remember:
3.14159265 (the next decimal I think is 4

 

[markc]

Hehe... http://www.joyofpi.com/pi.html