Facts that are completely useless

[scudsucker]

The US Forest Service has a guide on how to explode your horse.

The US Forest Service Guide To Completely Obliterating A Horse With Explosives

Trust us, this is not something you want to get wrong.

www.iflscience.com

 

[Chingha]

They must have learned from the famous whale incident

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[Chingha]

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[Nicholas]

Indeed. The unicorn is the traditional enemy of the lion, the national animal of England.

Hence the nursery rhyme?

 

[satanboy]

 

[scudsucker]

"Regurgitalite" is the name for fossilised vomit.


Slightly related, I taught my son that coprolite was fossilised dinosaur poo when he was two years old and barely able to pronounce the word. He is now 5, and knows it still. Poo and dinosaurs, that is what little boys think about.

 

[biometrics]

While shooting “The Blues Brothers” movie, they had a budget for cocaine.

 

[satanboy]

The sum of all the numbers on the roulette wheel (from 0 to 36) is 666.

 

[biometrics]

There is a super massive black hole named TON 618 which is 140 trillion times more luminous and 66 billion times more massive than the Sun. This is more mass than the entire Milky Way galaxy.

 

[biometrics]

When the pope dies it is a tradition to hit him on the head with a hammer to make sure he’s dead.

 

[Sinbad]

When the pope dies it is a tradition to hit him on the head with a hammer to make sure he’s dead.

They should do that to the live ones as well

 

[satanboy]

When the pope dies it is a tradition to hit him on the head with a hammer to make sure he’s dead.

The camerlengo also verifies the passing of the pope after the doctor has pronounced his death. In the past, this was done by tapping him on the head three times with a ceremonial hammer and calling his baptismal name in his native tongue. If he showed no response, the camerlengo announced “the pope is dead” and took possession of his ceremonial ring, which was often then smashed with the same hammer along with official seals.

 

[scudsucker]

This one for @satanboy

Oyster Mushrooms are the only carnivores that are vegan.

 

[scudsucker]

The commonly used seasoning we all know as "salt" is known to geologists as "halite"

 

[satanboy]

Deuterostomes represent a major branch of Animalia as do protostomes. Most of the animals with exoskeletons would be protostomes while those with endoskeletons are deuterostomes.
In early embryonic development, which is believed to parallel evolutionary development, the single cell splits several times until eventually, the clump resembles a hollow sphere. Then this sphere caves in on one side, making two layers of cells and becoming bowl-shaped. And then, the bottom of the bowl opens up to resemble a short tube.
NOW, the difference between us and bugs is the first (cup) hole becomes the anus in deuterostomes (us) and the second hole the mouth, while in protostomes (bugs, lobsters, etc.) the first hole is the mouth and the second hole the anus. So the difference is very basic, going back a half billion years or more in evolutionary history. And yes, we are basically donut-shaped with the alimentary canal forming the hole in the donut.

 

[scudsucker]

Possibly not an actual fact - but it titillated me

Princess vs Duchess in a topless sword fight over flower arrangements.

 

[scudsucker]

Cats cannot taste "sweetness"

 

[scudsucker]

13 people died in the Great Whisky Fire in Dublin, when up to 15cm deep rivers of burning whisky flowed through the streets after vats exploded during a fire at the distillery.

Did they die from the explosion, or from burns, or even drowning?

No. All 13 died from alcohol poisoning. This is what happens when you get a river of whisky flowing past your house.

 

[biometrics]

Onions have more DNA than humans.

 

[biometrics]

The collision between The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way has already begun.