The Useless-But-Interesting Information Thread

[Darkdragon]

Useless but interesting fact: Certain Eastern languages do not distinct between "Green" and "Blue", or only have recently done so.

[meany]

Useless but interesting fact: Albert Einstein was married to his own cousin.

[superluser]

Useless but interesting fact: Certain Eastern languages do not distinct between "Green" and "Blue", or only have recently done so.

Two famous examples for discussing qualia are grue and bleen.

[Dannysaysnoo]

Useless but intresting fact 1: It is physicaly impossible to lick your own elbow.

Useless but intresting fact 2: 75% of the people who read UBIF 1 shall attempt to prove it wrong and fail. 

Useless but intresting fact 3: Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment: Prohibition.

Useless but interesting fact 4: my little sister defies UBIF1, and we have photographic evidence.

Can lick her own nose, too.  She's got a giraffe tongue...

i can lick the nose. its great for freaking people out.

[Brunhidden]

Ditto here, i have a Gene Simmons toung... when Eowyn was about 7 months old or so i tried to teach her to stick out her toung and 'throw up the horns' on cue, she almost got it, and has done it by accident several times now. 

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[Dannysaysnoo]

Ditto here, i have a Gene Simmons toung... when Eowyn was about 7 months old or so i tried to teach her to stick out her toung and 'throw up the horns' on cue, she almost got it, and has done it by accident several times now. 

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Need to try that...

EDIT: i just did and bashed my arm on the radiator...ow.

[e_voyager]

if you edit your post within 1 minute of posting the edit subscript does not appear.

[xHaZxMaTx]

I thought it was 15 seconds.  Let's find out.

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Seems to be 30 seconds.

[e_voyager]

your post subscript  shows 1 second longer the a minute hazzy

[xHaZxMaTx]

I edited it twice.

[Angel]

i can lick the nose. its great for freaking people out.

Same here! My tongue is freakishly long. All my friends think it's gross but amazingly awesome. I can do the best Alucard impressions, too...

[e_voyager]

i have been accused of having no soul so on of my characters is literally soulless with nothing more then a kernel of a proto soul to help it relay the the world of the living he has 3 span ( roughly 1200 years) to either find his soul or build and new one or he'll be soulless until his final destruction during this time he's pretty much the echo of the voyager each death kicking him back in time a few moments to try again until he gets it right or gives up and runs

[Sufurin Scorda]

Research suggests that the ability to do mirror writing is probably inherited and caused by atypical language organization in the brain. It is not known how many people in the population inherited the ability of mirror writing (an Australian researcher estimates the proportion to be 1 in 6500).

Half of the children of people with the ability inherited it. There are more left-handed mirror writers than right-handed ones, probably because left-handed people tend to have atypical language centres in their brain.

- Wikipedia

(I think it's interesting 'cuz I can mirror-write. But my mirror-written words are neater and easier to read than my sloppy non-mirror-written ones. Bawww, no one can tell the different between my a's and e's and o's (and sometimes u's )

[Brunhidden]

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected

You already have a quote, go away

[Darkdragon]

In a group of 23 or more people, there is at least a 1 in 2 chance of two people having the same birthday.

There exists a math question with a $1,000,000 standing prize.