I thought that posting a topic where people can tell each other about any useless but interesting facts would be a good idea! How about this:
The proper term for Giant robots (Transformers, Gundam Wing etc) is not mech or mechs but mecha!
The japanese refer to robots as 'mechanical objects' or 'mekanikaru'! If you shorten that you get 'meka'. Then, you romanise that to get 'mecha'!
Cool idea..
Mm... The Sun, a newspaper in Malaysia got its license taken away for some contraversial reporting, and is now being given out free (after they got the license back) or 30 sen (that's less than 10 cents) delivered to your doorstep.
If you pour milk in someone's can of coke, it will foam up and go everywhere.
We discovered that back in 8th grade. 
You should never agitate a lion.
This sentence starts with the letter "T".
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You should never agitate a lion.
Don't believe anything Wes tells you. It's fun to agitate lions, especially if you're wearing a shirt made of fried chicken.
I've never seen a "Number X" pencil that wasn't "Number 2."
According to my Dad's video recording YEARS ago, it's fun to hit alligators with sticks!
I've spent more time cleaning my grandmother's house in a week of holiday than I do my mum's house in the rest of the year.
Dogs can't look up.
Birds have to land on a telephone wire with both feet at the same time.
Yes, this is really true! If they land only with one foot, they are a broken circuit and they'll be electrocuted and fall to the ground, usually scaring small children in the process. That's also why many squirrels are zapped and killed if they scamper across a telephone wire.
~Shadowed Spirit Sage
Normally I'm chock full of useless facts, but now I'm having to think hard.
Oh, yes... Guy Fawkes was a set-up by the Protestants to start hanging and torturing Catholics. He was tortured for ten days before he gave the names of his fellow conspiritors, and by that time they'd already been betrayed.
Technically not a fact, Harley - or, at least, not last time I checked. It is, however, a very popular theory among historians, with a certain amount of evidence suggesting a protestant close to the King had a fair amount of involvement in the scheme.
Hmm... random fact... Cats lack the ability to taste sweetness, according to recent research
I typed this message with a KEYBOARD! OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG!!!!!!111111111111111!!!!!!!!111111111
OK.
--50 Cent currently has a crush on Lindsay Lohan.
--Eminem and Vanilla Ice both appeared in a low-budget, poorly-rated film called "Da Hip Hop Witch". It's out on DVD if you want it.
--Ice has a wallaroo, a goat, and a lynx as pets.
--Em is a fan of Harry Potter.
--Em had originally wanted to grow up to be a comic artist, then his uncle Ronnie bought him a rap record.
--He has a cast on his arm in the "Fight Music" video because he injured it while fixing something in his house.
--50 was originally going to Columbia Records. After he got shot, they used that as an excuse to drop him.
--50 took two of those bullets to the head, and needed his jaws wired shut for six weeks.
--Back in the early 90's, Disney thought that Pocahontas would be their next big hit, and that The Lion King would be a failure.
--The Emperor's New Groove was originally titled, "Kingdom of the Sun", and was going to be a seriously-toned film.
--Pocahontas originally had the title character as a little girl with a long dress and her hair in braids (like she was supossed to be) and had talking animal sidekicks. Then, some bigwig wanted another Oscar nom for best picture, so he made the studio attempt at a more adult-pleasing film.
--Even though it is not a Disney picture, that same mistake was made with Titan, AE. They wanted the target audience to be teenage boys. The kids at the test audience thought it was for adults, and the adults thought it was for kids.
--Beauty and the Beast had been pitched around the studio ever since Walt was alive.
If you like those, I have many more.
Fact: Eminem is white and raps.
Eminem is a white man that raps? I do not believe this. 😛
*picks a random page from "Uncle Johns' Bathroom Reader"*
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PANCAKES
When the first European settlers landed in the New World, they brought pancakes with them. They met Native Americans who made their own kind, called nokehic.
Even the ancient Egyptians had pancakes. In fact, it's difficult to find a culture that didn't have some variation of this favorite food.
The first ready-made pancake mix came in 1889, when two men in St. Joseph, Missouri, introduced "Self-Rising Pancake Flour."
They named it "Aunt Jemima" after a song from a minstrel show.
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Dogs can't look up.
Neither can pigs.
If you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyes will pop out of your head like a cork out of a bottle!
When you take medicine for say a cold, it doesn't make your cold go away; you just can't feel the symptoms. Therefore you are still contagious.
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If you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyes will pop out of your head like a cork out of a bottle!
Not necesserily true...I heard that and tried it. Took a few attempts, but I managed it. It did hurt quite a bit though, so I wouldn't recommend it.
My Fact:
Jelly does NOT make a good bouncy castle, like so many movies suggest!
Wraith
This is a post on a message board. Believe it or don't!
Your body creates and kills 15,000,000 blood cells every second.
'Clinophobia' is fear of beds.
The name of 1/100th of a second is a 'jiffy'.
Jack Thompson is a moron.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
The world record time for rolling an orange a mile with your nose is 24 minutes 36 seconds.
It is unwise to wear black while riding your bicycle at night.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a lung condition contracted after inhaling volcanic ash!
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The world record time for rolling an orange a mile with your nose is 24 minutes 36 seconds.
That uphill or downhill?
Completely flat. The guy who set the record, for example, did it in an airport terminal.
On August 14th (my birthday), in the year 1040, King Duncan I of Scotland was killed in battle against Macbeth.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Snails can't jump. Slugs can though. Weird.
Pigs don't sweat.
My toilet is overflowing and pissing me off.
An average human running 4 miles a hour in 105 degree weather can melt their sneakers in 125 hours.
Hybrids such as Zeedonks and Ligers are sterile, otherwise we'd have ligerjaguleps in our zoos.
The canary islands were named after dogs
I can get my head to my groin
Giving pidgeons "fart pills" will make them explode (I think... >>)
Money DOES grow on trees! Paper money?
Also, kinda hard to believe money doesn't grow on trees when you put your money in a bank BRANCH!
Fact - Alexandar Graham Bell didn't invent the telephone, he only patented it.
Fact - The Earth has three or four moons.
Fact - Space is a beige color.
Fact - Q.I is filled with useless info which no one believes.
Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet. In fact, only recently have we become certain that Thomas Crapper actually existed.
Fact: The Team Dark theme tune "This Machine" kicks some serious ass.
Fact: "What I'm Made Of" does that also.
Fact: The Team Dark theme tune "This Machine" kicks some serious ass.
Opinion, an uneducated one at that.
Any song with "as the Eggman watches" as the final line of it's chorous cannot kick anything, but perhaps the bucket.
The lyrics in that song are embarrassing at best, and there is no structure to the music beyond the basic riff, which makes it very VERY bland. Even Follow Me (incidentally, my favourite of the SH songs, showing how poor they are) has a solo section and something more to the music than unethusiastic goth rock style music with stupid lyrics song by a bland and vaguely uninterested voice.
In other words.
