Useless Information

[rumpus]

The keyboards on modern computers have the 'Qwerty' layout because when it used to be 'ABCDE' the typists of the day used to go so fast that the thin metal arms on typewriters used to get all tangled up and break.

 

 

The boffins of the day decided to jumble up the letters to slow the girls down. Didn't work though as they just got used to the new set up and go just as fast. There was no point in changing again as the same would happen.

[Karl Fletcher]

There is more time between a Stegosaurus and a T-Rex existing than there is a T-Rex and humans existing.

 

The Mothers of Rupert Murdoch and John McCain are still alive aged 103 and 100, respectively.

[spamspamspam]

111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

[Big Man]

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

 

Hence the mantra tails never fails (55.5% of the time).

[BrianFaePerth]

If you toss a penny 1000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

 

Hence the mantra tails never fails (55.5% of the time).

 

Ye sure about that chief?

[Big Man]

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes.

[daytripping]

If you toss a penny 1000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

 

Hence the mantra tails never fails (55.5% of the time).

 

You sure about that chief?

[BrianFaePerth]

You sure about that chief?

 

 

Copycat.

[Big Man]

You sure about that chief?

 

Be right back. I'll go and find a penny to test...

[BrianFaePerth]

Be right back. I'll go and find a penny to test...

 

It'll be a helluva penny to come up with those results

[daytripping]

The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.

[Big Man]

It'll be a helluva penny to come up with those results

 

 

Proof

 

[BrianFaePerth]

Big Man has no idea how to write 10,000

[Dynamo]

 

Proof

 

Missed out a 0 in your 1000 then!

[daytripping]

Big Man,

 

Remember and toss it 10000 times and not 1000 if you want the correct result.

[Big Man]

Big Man has no idea how to write 10,000

 

 

I just noticed that as well...

[daytripping]

I was too slow.

[Big Man]

The average British motorist is overcharged by

[looksgoodinred]

Dolphins have an opposable penis.

And they've been known to rape people as well as gang bang other dolphins. They have rape caves.

 

http://www.aardvarknyc.com/about/dolphins-rape-people/

[BrianFaePerth]

And they've been known to rape people as well as gang bang other dolphins. They have rape caves.

 

Give them a football and they could play in the EPL

[Robbie Winters]

No country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted any of the 21 Winter Olympic Games and of the 30 Summer Olympics it has only ever been held in the Southern Hempishere twice, Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000

[Dynamo]

No country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted any of the 21 Winter Olympic Games and of the 30 Summer Olympics it has only ever been held in the Southern Hempishere twice, Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000

 

Rio will be 3 then.

 

No surprise about the winter Olympics! No resort big enough to make it worth while. Was surprised to see how small the NZ ski areas are.

[K-9]

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

 

Hence the mantra tails never fails (55.5% of the time).

But most people toss coin and catch it on one hand and flip onto back of other hand to reveal which makes heads the better bet.

[Bluto10]

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes.

 

harcus has webbed feet.

 

as does tup.

[granite sheep]

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes.

Goebbels had a club foot, and Hitler did indeed only have one ball! So much for the genetic superiority of ze Aryan race!

[The Oxford Don]

Beavers (stop smirking) were hunted to extinction in Britain and most parts of Europe, not as is commonly supposed for their skins, but because they secrete from their anal glands a powerful painkiller, called castoretum.

 

Pair wee beaver...

[BrianFaePerth]

Beavers (stop smirking) were hunted to extinction in Britain and most parts of Europe, not as is commonly supposed for their skins, but because they secrete from their anal glands a powerful painkiller, called castoretum.

 

Pair wee beaver...

 

Eh won't even ask how they discovered that

[Terrorfex]

A day (sunrise-to-sunrise) on Mercury is longer than a year.

[looksgoodinred]

corn sex is fraught with potential difficulties. and much more goes into making a corn cob than i thought.

 

Corn sex is complicated. As Michael Pollan observes in

[Karl Fletcher]

Dolphin rape.

 

Corn sex.

 

Anything involving butter.

 

Anything else you'd like to add to the list!?