A place to post your utterly unimportant and useless knowledge:

I stole this idea from another forum I frequent and I liked the idea. I figure it will be much more interesting here since the knowledge base on this site is huge.

A few to start us off:

The little plastic or metal sleeve at the end of your shoelaces is called an aglet.


The average mouth will produce 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime.


Wrigley chewing gum was the first product to have its bar code scanned (Marsh's Supermarket, June 26, 1974)


The first credit card is considered to be the Diner's Club card (1950), although it was technically a charge card. Bank of America was the first to provide actual credit cards (1958) that allowed a balance to be carried month to month for a fee.

Q: Which side of the moon is the dark side?
A: They are all dark. The moon does not give off light.
Well you said you wanted useless knowledge.
Rod

"As useless as tits on a boar."
When my Father was in Veterinary school, post WWII, they discovered that tits on a boar are very important because the boar's offspring will have the same number of tits which is a major factor on the size of the litter that the sow produces.

Now, go forth and impress your family with this fact at the next holiday dinner.

Credit Card Numbers:

Each has a different starting number

American Express: 3
Visa: 4
MasterCard: 5
Discover: 6

Not sure about Diners.

Brown chickens lay brown eggs

White chickens lay white eggs.

^^^ That's Racist...

The half life of 50Vanadium is 1.5 E17 years

Pi is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944....

In the 10th grade, a buddy bet me that I couldn't memorize it to 50 or more places. It's been stuck in my melon ever since.

Now...where in the hell did I leave my keys?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Pi is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944....

In the 10th grade, a buddy bet me that I couldn't memorize it to 50 or more places. It's been stuck in my melon ever since.

Now...where in the hell did I leave my keys?

That! Is useless!

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Wait! That’s not useless at all

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Originally posted by TMats:
1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2
Wait! That’s not useless at all

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Originally posted by Spokane228:
Brown chickens lay brown eggs

White chickens lay white eggs.

Araucana and Americana chickens lay pink and/or green eggs.

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Originally posted by TMats:
1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2

Now anybody who can search the Internet has the combination to your safe!

Factoid: the average speed of an electron is less than 1% of the speed of light.

The juice inside a compass is called Varsol.

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Originally posted by TMats:
1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2

Wait! That’s not useless at all

You can install a 302 cam in a 351 motor, but you have to change the firing order to match.

That little fact kicked my ass bigtime after I rebuilt the 351 in a buddy's van and put a RV grind cam in it. Speed shop sorta forgot to tell me it was a 302 cam and that 302's and 351's had different firing orders. I'm a SBC guy, they're all the same.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until
a child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Some butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend
an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Wyatt Earp was a friend of young John Wayne. Wayne (Marion Morrison) gave credit to his movie persona, walk and talk, to Earp, who was an acquaintance by virtue of his friendship with Tom Mix who hired Wayne as a prop boy in his early Hollywood days. Maybe not useless trivia, but I've always found it fascinating that when you watch a Wayne movie, you're actually seeing some part of Earp on the screen.

Mangos can get sunburned

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Originally posted by Spokane228:
Brown chickens lay brown eggs

White chickens lay white eggs.

Drunk chickens lay fried eggs.

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Originally posted by sig sailor:
Q: Which side of the moon is the dark side?
A: They are all dark. The moon does not give off light.
Well you said you wanted useless knowledge.
Rod

The "dark side" always faces away from earth, but still gets sunlight when it's between the sun and earth.