Useless Facts

[Wyrd Bid Ful Araed]

Oh there is a ton of unscripted stuff in the LotR films. At Helm's Deep when the Uruk-hai are doing their spear-stamping haka thing? One guy started that when he got bored just standing around in the rain. Everyone else started to join in and it wound up in the movie. I think in the third film Theoden batting the Rohirrim's spears with his sword was something Bernard Hill came up with and, again, the crew just thought "well why not?"

[CHTrilogy]

D'you know, I've just realised: the golf courses in the original Wii Sports are exactly the same as the ones on Golf for the NES!!!

[Bfahome]

Also, in Fellowship, Lurtz the Orc threw a dagger straight at Aragorn. Aragorn deflected it. This was unscripted. Lawrence Makoare's vision was obscured by makeup and threw it at Mortensen's face instead of the nearby tree he was supposed to have thrown it.

 

 

He also took a couple of real punches and to the face because of the same vision issue.

 

Basically, Viggo Mortensen is Aragorn.

[Timelady Gallade]

Jaffa Cakes have apricot in them rather than orange. It would also take a 90 minute game of football to work off the calories from eating a whole pack of them.

I guess Chelsea can just eat Jaffa's before a match eh? Omnomnomnonmnom....Also: -Humans are just as hairy as chimps.- Bulls will charge at any colour of cloth you wave, not just red.- 3 week old human embryos look like fish embryos.-Macs don't the recognize British spelling of 'Colour'. And favourite. Thats it for now!Byyyyyyyye!!

[PutYaGunsOn]

The Humpty Dumpty rhyme never actually mentions that he's an egg.

[Wyrd Bid Ful Araed]

Jaffa Cakes have apricot in them rather than orange. It would also take a 90 minute game of football to work off the calories from eating a whole pack of them.

I guess Chelsea can just eat Jaffa's before a match eh? Omnomnomnonmnom....Also: -Humans are just as hairy as chimps.- Bulls will charge at any colour of cloth you wave, not just red.- 3 week old human embryos look like fish embryos.-Macs don't the recognize British spelling of 'Colour'. And favourite. Thats it for now!Byyyyyyyye!!

Technically, if you look at quantity of hair follicles per square inch of skin, we're more hairy than a chimpanzee

 

Also, the mac I'm using right now recognises the British spellings of favourite and colour, so that last one might just be a problem with yours

[Timelady Gallade]

Jaffa Cakes have apricot in them rather than orange. It would also take a 90 minute game of football to work off the calories from eating a whole pack of them.

I guess Chelsea can just eat Jaffa's before a match eh? Omnomnomnonmnom....Also: -Humans are just as hairy as chimps.- Bulls will charge at any colour of cloth you wave, not just red.- 3 week old human embryos look like fish embryos.-Macs don't the recognize British spelling of 'Colour'. And favourite. Thats it for now!Byyyyyyyye!!

Technically, if you look at quantity of hair follicles per square inch of skin, we're more hairy than a chimpanzee

 

Also, the mac I'm using right now recognises the British spellings of favourite and colour, so that last one might just be a problem with yours

I think my one is from 2010 anyway.

 

The creeper is acutely a failed pig model. lol

 

Var sings beautifully.

[BBCCD]

Christmas fact:​

 

On the Christmas where baby Jesus was visited by the 3 wise men, Jesus was actually 2-3 years old by the time those wise men made it.

 

Christmas Fact

Jesus wasn't born on Christmas.

[CHTrilogy]

I recall the Nostalgia Critic saying, when discovering that MGM distributed The Garbage Pail Kids - "I can't take anything from them!!" and "oh god, it feels disgusting viewing anything by those people". Which kind of results in a paradox! He says on several occasions he loved the Tom & Jerry cartoons - which were distributed by MGM! There's also the question of the James Bond movies and The Wizard of Oz.

[Jonathan Crane]

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

There are more chickens than people in the world (at least before that chicken-flu thing).

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
• Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop Faster than the rest of us.
• Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

• • Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
  • Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc. Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.
  • Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.
  • The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
  • The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
  • The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
  • The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotam-eteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-whenu a kitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
  • Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.

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  • Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
  • The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
  • The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie" (Thus the name of the Don McLean song).
  • When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
  • The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  • If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  • The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
    • The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
    • In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
    • It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
    • Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
    • There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
    • The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
    • Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
    • The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
    • When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
    • Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

[HeavyMetalSunshineSister]

It should be noted, however, that grass is generally not killed by grazing animals, because the roots and the base of the stem remain intact, allowing it to grow back. (Plus, seeing as most cows these days, at least in America, are fed corn instead of grass, and taking the fruit of a plant doesn't really count as killing it... In fact, I don't see a good argument for saying that fruit in general destroys life, especially fruit from plants that do not die after reproducing.

[~Xemnas~]

A tarsier cannot rotate its eyes in their sockets- it must turn its head to look around.

Edited January 30, 2013 by Toa Xemnas of Crystal

[Sybre]

During the filming of a movie called "The Crow", during the death scene of Brandon Lee's character, he was supposed to be shot by a gun that fires blanks. Somehow, an actual bullet shot out of the gun and killed Brandon in real life.

[Guest X-G.12]

Chuck Norris once punted a football. today this football is known as the moon. (couldn't help myself )

 

there are only three known only-girl elemental powers: water, electricity, and Pysonics. the reason why Orde is a guy and a toa of Pysonics is because he was hot-headed at the time, and the GB decided that girls would be gentler with it.

[Sybre]

I hear Paul Revere's midnight ride was a lot different from what we all thought it is.

[teslakana]

the human body has 32,000,000 million bacteria per square inch

[Van Hohenheim]

everytime you sneeze, your heart skips a beat.

[Dapper-Sama]

Rumor has it that Russia shot a las0r at an American Space-Station in '48.

[Canama]

If you take a set of 23 randomly-chosen people, there is a 50% chance that two of them will have the same birthday. At 57 people, the probability is 99%. (However, it's not until there are 367 people that it reaches 100%.) This is known as the birthday problem.

[Dapper-Sama]

"Arrow to the Knee" was not the only Skyrim Internet meme. "Someone Stole your Sweet Roll" was a contender for a while as well.

[Sybre]

The idea for Sonic the Hedgehog games were inspired from the original Mario Bros. game. Sonic's creator said he tried to complete the levels as fast as possible, thus inspiring the Sonic game.Also, the first Donkey Kong game was supposed to be a Popeye (the sailor man) game, but when the license with Popeye's creators ended, the Nintendo CEO filled in the blanks with his own characters (Mario, Donkey Kong, and Pauline).

[Hitoshura]

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes fully open.

[Dapper-Sama]

Insect exoskeletons are made of a material similar to Hum'n fingernails.

[Hitoshura]

Crickets detect sound through their knees.

[teslakana]

coke is used by the police to clean blood

in natoma, kansas it is illegal to throw knives at men in striped suits

richard ll died age 33 in 1400 a hole was left in the side of his tomb so that people could touch his corpse (not that i'd want to)

but 376 years later someone took advantage of this and stole his jawbone

in california it is illegal to use dirty underwear to dust

it is a criminal offense to drive a dirty car in russia

if you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2 and subtract the original number it'll always be 5

abe lincolns dog, fido was also assassinated O.o

dueling is legal in paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

in england the speaker of the house isn't allowed to speak

it was custom in ancient rome for men to place their hand on their testicles when taking an oath

the modern term testimony is derived from this tradition

Edited March 17, 2013 by teslakana

[Dapper-Sama]

Contrary to popular belief, Coca-Cola has no effect as a spermicide. Sprite, however, does.

[Sybre]

Toothpaste tubes were once made of aluminum, but toothpaste and the aluminum were revealed to be poisonous.

[Van Hohenheim]

people used to brush their teeth with charcoal

[TheSkeletonMan939]

The fax machine was invented some time before the Civil War.

[Sybre]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

 

I'm gonna go try that!

Edited March 12, 2013 by Sybre of the Green

[HeavyMetalSunshineSister]

Well, of course, that energy would have to be stored, transferred to heat, and applied to the coffee cup.

 

Also, if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would get laryngitis and then simply tear your vocal cords, probably well before the coffee was even lukewarm.

[Van Hohenheim]

about 300 people have been in space, but only roughly 12 have been on the moon.

[HeavyMetalSunshineSister]

Roughly twelve, or actually exactly twelve? Twelve seems a lot easier to be precise about than numbers in the 300 range, and I think we'd know if twelve and a half people had been on the moon.

[Van Hohenheim]

Roughly twelve, or actually exactly twelve? Twelve seems a lot easier to be precise about than numbers in the 300 range, and I think we'd know if twelve and a half people had been on the moon.

sorry, I use "roughly" when I mean "I'm pretty sure". yes, 12 people have walked on the moon. sorry for the confusion :/

[CHTrilogy]

The Flintstones: Although Rosie O'Donnell just doesn't resemble Betty Rubble, she still got the role on the account of her replicating her original giggle.

[Dapper-Sama]

A Russian cosmonaut who's name I can't remember, traveled forward 1/46th of a second, forward in time, while in orbit. Thanks, relativity.

Edited March 16, 2013 by Dude w/ a Hat

[teslakana]

all in all humans spend up to six years worth of their lives dreaming

 

falling in love makes the same type of "high" as taking cocaine

 

cats have been blamed for the extinction of 33 species

 

the word "verb" is a noun

 

daydreamers are apparently good at solving complex problems

 

rowan atkinson once saved a plane from crashing, saving his wife and two children after the pilot passed out

 

it takes 21 days to form a habit

 

around 10 million people have the same birthday as you

 

being ignored causes the same chemical reaction in the brain as experiencing physical pain

 

there is a town in nebraska with a population of 1 (O.o)

 

whenever a video is buffering you can play an actual game of "snake" by using the arrow keys

 

on good friday 1930 BBC announced"there is no news"

 

40% of women would consider dumping a BF just because fer friends don't like him (typical, much?)

 

smarter people are proven to make sarcastic comments quicker than people who aren't smart

 

it's also been proven that most people with mental health issues are also smart than one might think

 

grammar pendatry syndrome is a form of OCD in which sufferers need to correct grammatical mistake

 

bob marley's last words to his son were: "money can't by life"

 

according to albert einstein if honey were to disappear from earth humans would die in 4 years

 

there was a man SO dedicated to april fools day that he flew hundrds of tyres into a dormant volcano in alaska

 

and set them on fire fooling the local populace and coastguard into thinking the volcano was active

 

there is actually a flower that smells like chocolate

 

the longest recorded marriage lasted 91 years and 12 days

 

you can buy GPS choes that can guide you home by clicking your feet together

 

the creator of pringles had his ashes stored in a pringles can after he died

 

everything is more annoying if you hate the person doing it

 

"scrubs" has been proven the most medically accurate show on air

 

ben and jerry's actually have a graveyard were they bury discontinued flavors

 

a man spent $12000 trying to make the worlds greatest tree-house

 

the word "bride" is derived from an old english word meaning "cook"

 

using your friends/room-mates netflix to watch movies is a ederal crime

 

earless bunnies have been found in china

 

the US government is $17 trillion in debt

 

jellyfish and lobsters are considered biologically immortal - they don't age and won't die unless actually killed

 

fake smiling can cause real happiness

 

humans start lying by the age of 4

 

sarcastic people tend to be more creative

 

you're 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist

 

video games help the brain make faster real-life decisions

 

niagara falls completely froze over in 1911

 

metathesiophobia is the fear of change

 

in 1980 a las vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die

 

talking to yourself actually makes you smarter

Edited March 24, 2013 by teslakana

[Van Hohenheim]

assuming that Toa are 7 feet tall and that the MU is 4000000 feet tall, it would take 28000000 Toa standing on top of each other to equate to the size of the MU.

[teslakana]

ymper trymon is SMARTER than strack

[Unauthorized Autobiography]

- In USA, the first person arrested by speed excess was going at 15 KPH.

 

- Goats can get up on trees.

 

- There is only 1 theme (apart from credits, I think) in the whole Predator movie.

 

- BIONICLE was thought out in 1999, begun on 2000, and was officially sold in 2001.

 

- Certain Sloth species have a weed that only grows on its hair, and a moth that only eats that weed.

 

- Most birds only blink until the quarter of their eye.

 

- Fingers don't have muscles

 

- "The Claw of the Tiger" Kung-Fu move is able to rip skin flesh and muscles.

Edited March 30, 2013 by Jungle Predator