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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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What's a useless fact that you know for some reason?
One we came across recently is fake eyelashes were originally used by ladies of the night to stop cum getting in their eyes "cumbrella" if you will. |
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"What's a useless fact that you know for some reason?
One we came across recently is fake eyelashes were originally used by ladies of the night to stop cum getting in their eyes "cumbrella" if you will. "
Very useful fact IMO |
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By (user no longer on site)
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In the olden days cats and dogs would sleep up in the rafters and lofts of houses where it was warm , when it rained heavy the thatch roof would leak and the pets would get wet and jump down .
Hence the saying it’s raining cats and dogs !! |
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The revolving door was invented by a man who's mother was obsessed with etiquette the he rebelled against having to hold a door open for a woman. So he invented a door you don't have to and can't hold open |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I’m the Wild West cowboys wouldn’t always have money so if the went in to a saloon to get a drink they would ask for a whiskey and give the barman a bullet as it was the same price
That’s why it’s called a shot now !!! |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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If a female has been sufficiently aroused prior to penetration the vaginal lubrication is produced by the Bartholin Glands, but at the point of orgasm her secretions are produced by the Skene Gland; there is debate whether squirting is produced by the Skene alone or whether urine from the urethra is also involved.
The male equivalent of the Bartholin gland is the bulbourethal gland; but it is located in a different position in men-obviously!
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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An increasing percentage of the American populace no longer believe that 12 American astronauts walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
This conspiracy theory is gaining credibility.
Further, until relatively recently, decades, very few Americans had ever had a passport and thus very few had travelled abroad.
The level of awareness of other countries amongst American schoolchildren is astonishingly low; |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A platypus is one of 5 mammals that lays eggs. They're also venomous, and glow under a UV light.
And they're literally tiny in real life."
Heard tasmanian devils do that too. But I might have just made it up  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A pigs orgasm can last up to 30 minutes
Quiet day on the farm when you found that out was it? "
That it was haha. Same day I found out elephants are the only mammal that can't jump |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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"Concrete takes 25 years to fully harden!"
It can take longer; there was so much concrete used in the Hoover Dam project that curing will take hundreds of years, and it is anticipated that the dam, or rather the eroded remnants of this dam will still exist in hundreds of thousands of years.
The concrete when it was poured was cooled by pipes filled with refrigerant, such was the vast amount of heat produced by the chemical curing process. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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"The clitorous is the only human organ whose sole purpose is pleasure.
Not sure this qualifies as a useless fact but it is a fact  "
The human female clitoris is the homologue of the male penis although without the urethra being attached. The total clitoris is actually much larger than most people realise, and is not simply the little protruding point, but a larger area.
The female Ostrich's clitoris is particularly unusual! |
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By *ubal1Man
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"A platypus is one of 5 mammals that lays eggs. They're also venomous, and glow under a UV light.
And they're literally tiny in real life."
If you have an interest in Australian fauna, such as the duck-billed platypus, have a look at a concept called the Wallace Line; named after Alfred Russell Wallace and adopted by Thomas Huxley. |
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The aftershave Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in nine countries... Yep, it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good.They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It is illegal to own more then 6 dildos in the state of Texas.
Do they have dildo inspectors?"
That's a good question and something I'm sure I'll end up looking into at some stage today |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It is illegal to own more then 6 dildos in the state of Texas.
Do they have dildo inspectors?
That's a good question and something I'm sure I'll end up looking into at some stage today "
Be an interesting job application forn to fill up |
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"It is illegal to own more then 6 dildos in the state of Texas.
Do they have dildo inspectors?
That's a good question and something I'm sure I'll end up looking into at some stage today "
I also wonder does a double ended one count as two |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Almost a third of all women on the planet over 80 years of age still have sex 
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And considering men tend to die younger, all those randy old lasses are having sex with the same rapidly dwindling pool of old guys. Apparently stds are rampant in old folks homes.
Life at 90 doesnt seem like its going to be all that bad... |
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"MDMA was invented as a marriage counselling drug. Fighter pilots and the armed forces have been using amphetamines to stay alert since WW2. "
MDMA was first synthesised by Merck in the 1910s while they were researching drugs to control bleeding. A process to manufacture it (as a byproduct) was patented by them in 1921.
It was rediscovered by Alexander Shulgin in the 70s who shared it with his friends, and was used by many therapists, and was not controlled in the US until 1985.
It was reportedly as part of the CIAs MKULTRA program also but was never tested on humans |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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The climate of Earth is affected, traditionally, by the three forces of eccentricity, precession and obliquity; but a new field of research that is gaining credibility is that of Cosmic-climatology which is principally concerned with cloud formation and Earth's albedo: the amount of sunlight reflected back into space. |
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By *ubal1Man
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"Up until 1964 that punishment in Ireland for attempting suicide was death by hanging."
Decades ago, I was at a lecture given by the NI Attorney General who said he was bewildered by the wording of this piece of bizarre legislation, that has since been repealed.
Even if you failed in your first attempt at suicide, the second phase was going to get you! |
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Today I learnt that in Breaking Bad when Badger bought Pizza that was not sliced and talked about it being the pizza places unique gimmick of letting you cut your own pizza and pass the savings onto you, apparently that was to cover the plot hole of the pizza that Walter throws on top of the garage strangely not being pre-sliced.
Walter was never meant to throw it up there, so the prop pizza was never sliced. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Laois is the only county in Ireland that doesn't border a county with a coastline..."
Right hands up who went and looked at a map to validate this... be honest and i will go 1st lol ?? |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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"It alarms me that 40% of Americans believe that the story of Noah and the ark was an historical event."
And there is a creationist museum in, I think, one of the Bible Belt states, possibly Kentucky, that portrays dinosaurs as having been alive at the same time as the earliest humans, which they did not |
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"Viagra was originally made to alleviate chest pain. And MDMA was to keep fighter pilots alert. "
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Oh yup, true indeed. The molecule UK.92480 was targeted at hypertension, angina and blood pressure, but failed.
Imagine if the inadvertent observation of a particular side effect during phase two clinical trials was not recorded, how many more depressed couples and singles would have existed in the world ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No word in the English language rhymes with "month"
Cunt?
Runt lol.
Stunt "
I was staring at these thinking.....ehhhh, nooooo
But then I added in a southern brogue and suddenly it all made sense  |
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I'll give a triple because I'm so nice 50% of Giraffes are Bisexual, they have the same vertebrae in their necks as we do(9) and they have 21 inch long tongues to clean out their ears.
I watch a lot of animal documentaries before anyone asks why I know a lot about animals  |
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"I'll give a triple because I'm so nice 50% of Giraffes are Bisexual, they have the same vertebrae in their necks as we do(9) and they have 21 inch long tongues to clean out their ears.
I watch a lot of animal documentaries before anyone asks why I know a lot about animals "
*7 vertebrae, not 9 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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For anyone who is into useless information there is a very good podcast called “why would you tell me that” that discusses in detail the most random facts. |
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. My heart is tearing for the poor people of Texas living such an awful hardship 
