Useless Information! AKA Trivia that you cannot live without!

Gemme · 08-17-2017, 05:36 AM

Left-handed folks live, on average, 7 years less than right-handed folks.

Bonus: Marilyn Monroe was a leftie.

homoe · 08-17-2017, 08:26 AM

At the nearest point, Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.

o 0 (perhaps Sarah Palin was right after all)

homoe · 08-17-2017, 08:28 AM

Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

homoe · 08-17-2017, 08:55 AM

August 17th, 1969 was to be officially the final day of the Woodstock Music Festival billed as 3 days of peace and music near Bethel, N.Y. but ultimately it ran four days! On August 18th 11 additional acts performed!

Many believe it was the greatest gathering of 60's musicians and is still thought to be the greatest live concert ever staged.

Bèsame* · 08-17-2017, 09:09 AM

You can heal paper cuts immediately and stop the pain with Chapstick.

According to research, bilingual brains are better at ignoring distractions and are generally more efficient.

The. "Q" in Q-tip, stands for quality.

girl_dee · 08-17-2017, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by homoe

August 17th, 1969 was to be officially the final day of the Woodstock Music Festival billed as 3 days of peace and music near Bethel, N.Y. but ultimately it ran four days! On August 18th 11 additional acts performed!

Many believe it was the greatest gathering of 60's musicians and is still thought to be the greatest live concert ever staged.

The last act was Jimi Hendrix, here's a video of him playing to the aftermath of Woodstock. Check out the people trying to find shoes!

Gemme · 08-17-2017, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by homoe

Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Not true! Pigs have sex for pleasure and can sustain orgasms for up to half an hour. Also, some other primates do as well. They're animals! *rawr*

Killer whales are actually a species of dolphin and they are very, very smart, especially in hunting strategies.

ksrainbow · 08-17-2017, 10:00 PM

Why is the nickname for Kansas the Sunflower State?
Inspired by this, George Morehouse filed legislation to make the Sunflower the state's official floral emblem. In 1903, the wild Sunflower became the official state flower of Kansas. (Interestingly, less than a decade earlier, lawmakers had unsuccessfully called for the eradication of the “noxious weed.”)Dec 10, 2015

homoe · 08-18-2017, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemme

Not true! Pigs have sex for pleasure and can sustain orgasms for up to half an hour. Also, some other primates do as well. They're animals! *rawr*

Killer whales are actually a species of dolphin and they are very, very smart, especially in hunting strategies.

Hoping if there really is such a thing as reincarnation, that I come back as a pig.

Gráinne · 08-18-2017, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by girl_dee

The last act was Jimi Hendrix, here's a video of him playing to the aftermath of Woodstock. Check out the people trying to find shoes!

And just for my useless information, the organizers of Woodstock tried to get Roy Rogers to sing "Happy Trails" after Jimi's set. He declined.

Oh, well-The reason natural gas has a rotten egg smell is that the smell (hydrogen sulfide) is added. In 1937 a school in oil-booming New London, Texas developed a gas leak. Gas filled the walls of the school but it had no scent. A shop teacher threw a switch, the school blew up, and 300+ students and teachers died. Now that smell alerts us to leaks.

girl_dee · 08-18-2017, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Gráinne

Oh, well-The reason natural gas has a rotten egg smell is that the smell (hydrogen sulfide) is added. In 1937 a school in oil-booming New London, Texas developed a gas leak. Gas filled the walls of the school but it had no scent. A shop teacher threw a switch, the school blew up, and 300+ students and teachers died. Now that smell alerts us to leaks.

i had no idea. this is useFUL information!

homoe · 08-17-2017, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemme

Left-handed folks live, on average, 7 years less than right-handed folks.

Bonus: Marilyn Monroe was a leftie.

James A. Garfield,Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman,Gerald Ford, Ronald Regan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama we also all lefties!

homoe · 08-17-2017, 09:35 AM

At least three presidents have been "ambidextrous," meaning they could use both hands to write.

James Garfield, Harry S. Truman, and Ronald Reagan. Reagan, in fact, was reported to be totally left handed; however, he was forced at an early age to switch, quite possibly because of the old beliefs that left handedness was a disability!

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ksrainbow Member How Do You Identify?: Valued Relationship Status: UNO Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Kansas Posts: 773 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,759 Thanked 2,193 Times in 573 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I am rededicated.. Why is the nickname for Kansas the Sunflower State? Inspired by this, George Morehouse filed legislation to make the Sunflower the state's official floral emblem. In 1903, the wild Sunflower became the official state flower of Kansas. (Interestingly, less than a decade earlier, lawmakers had unsuccessfully called for the eradication of the “noxious weed.”)Dec 10, 2015 Last edited by ksrainbow; 08-17-2017 at 10:04 PM. Reason: I am a weed..

08-17-2017, 08:26 AM	#2
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