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Stavros
05-20-2018, 02:45 PM
The first dog recruited by the Police Service in Scotland, in 1910, was an Airedale Terrier called Flipper.

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Nick Danger
05-20-2018, 03:10 PM
The little plastic bit at the end of a shoelace is called an "aglet."

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Murmdrum
05-20-2018, 04:21 PM
Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
seth123
05-20-2018, 05:46 PM
Your weight in Hudson Bay Canada will be less than normal .

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070511-weird-gravity.html
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2014-04-14/the-laurentide-ice-sheet-maphead
Cereal Escapist
05-21-2018, 03:26 AM
The line between the numerator and denominator in a fraction is called the vinculum.
morim
05-21-2018, 07:43 AM
I really love this thread (this is the useless info)
Stavros
05-21-2018, 11:47 AM
The line between the numerator and denominator in a fraction is called the vinculum.

That is useful, not useless information for anyone using maths in their daily life.
Cereal Escapist
05-21-2018, 12:27 PM
69 truly is the greatest thing ever.
if you square it (69^2), you get 4761
if you cube it (69^3), you get 328509

Together, this uses all 10 digits from 0 to 9 without repeating any.
BeardedOne
06-01-2018, 11:56 PM
When May Piertsorf, aged five, was mailed to her grandmother's house in 1914 the postage (Including the weight of her suitcase) was only fifty-three cents.
seth123
06-03-2018, 03:12 AM
Gleeking:

The act of spraying saliva from under your tongue in a stream or mist




Catenary:
The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon only by no other forces
DGinmass
06-03-2018, 03:55 AM
In 2004 Ford produced 72 competition orange svt mustang cobra convertibles, making it one of the rarest modern day mustang produced.
Cereal Escapist
06-03-2018, 06:02 AM
Shakespeare's plays have been translated into Klingon.
Nikka
06-03-2018, 05:32 PM
The first Communist was Jesus
Nick Danger
06-03-2018, 07:40 PM
It takes 846 licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQebo_1Np64
Cereal Escapist
06-03-2018, 08:07 PM
Tootsie Roll, the legendary song from 1994, reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early January 1995.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs7f3ssuEjA