Useless Corner


Useless Activities
June 5, 2008, 4:07 pm
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  1. Sunbathing in Geneva, (can’t… Stop… the .. Rain)
  2. Bar Hopping in Saudi Arabia, (alcohol is considered illegal)
  3. Raising Ant Farms, (…)
  4. Stealing Lighters from your friends, (best if you develop other activities since it’s bound to occur)
  5. Taking a ride on Space Mountain, (it isn’t actually space…pretty pointless)
  6. Sucking other people’s blood, (it won’t turn you into a vampire)
  7. Baking bread, (you can think Spinney’s and Carrefour for that)
  8. Blog Posting
  9. Teaching frogs how to sing
  10. Collecting lint
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McUseless Facts
May 24, 2008, 8:32 am
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  1. McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every four hours.
  2. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have a McDonald’s restaurant – yet.
  3. Ronald McDonald is “Donald McDonald™” in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. In Singapore he’s known as “Uncle McDonald.”
  4. McDonald’s international restaurants occasionally develop other items which appeal to local tastes, such as McSpaghetti™ in the Philippines.
  5. Sälen in Sweden opened the first SKI-THROUGH McDonald’s in the world.
  6. More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with “Bachelor of Hamburgerology” degrees from McDonald’s “Hamburger University.
  7. In India the “Big Mac” is changed into the “Maharaja Mac”, a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions against the consumption of beef and pork.
  8. 40% of McDonald’s profits comes from the sale of Happy Meals.
  9. Every day, McDonald’s serves more than 46 million people.
  10. The busiest international McDonald’s restaurant is located on Pushkin Square in Moscow, which serves 40,000 people every day.
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Useless Facts: The Grim Reaper Collection
May 23, 2008, 3:59 pm
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  1. On average, 100 people choke on ballpoint pens every year.
  2. People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
  3. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul’s armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
  4. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father’s assassination as well as during President Garfield’s assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
  5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
  6. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
  7. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
  8. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
  9. It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.
  10. OJ did it!
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Usless Quotes: Dumb and…Yea…
May 22, 2008, 6:50 pm
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  1. ” Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything “, Ivana Trump
  2. ” Smoking kills. If you’re killed you’ve lost a very important part of your life “, Brooke Shields
  3. ” It is time for the human race to enter the solar system “, Dan Quayle former US Vice-President from 1988 to 1992
  4. ” The internet is a great way to get on the net “, Bob Dole former Republican presidential candidate
  5. ” China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese “, Charles De Gaulles
  6. ” Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver “, Carol Malia BBC Anchorwoman
  7. ” If only faces could talk “, Pat Summerall legendary American sports announcer
  8. ” I just want you to know that when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace “, President Geroges “Dubbya” Bush
  9. ” I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father “, Greg Norman former golfing great
  10. ” The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll come back as a paintbrush “, Sylvester Stallone
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Useless facts: Beyond Useless
May 22, 2008, 9:37 am
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  1. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
  2. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
  3. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  4. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
  5. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
  6. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
  7. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  8. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
  9. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  10. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the 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 of battle wounds; if all four of the horse’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Useless Facts: English101
May 16, 2008, 4:36 pm
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  1. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
  2. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
  3. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
  4. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”.
  5. The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
  6. There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  7. A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
  8. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
  9. The “if” and “then” parts of conditional (”if P then Q”) statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
  10. The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.
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Useless Facts: Animal Planet version1.0
May 16, 2008, 4:20 pm
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  1. All polar bears are left-handed.
  2. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  3. Butterflies taste with their feet.
  4. Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
  5. A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
  6. Only female mosquitoes bite.
  7. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
  8. Camel’s have three eyelids.
  9. Rats and horses can’t vomit.
  10. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
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Useless Facts About the Month of May
May 12, 2008, 2:40 pm
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  1. The Month was named after a Roman goddess of spring and growth.
  2. Over 30 international events and holidays are celebrated during this month, including Cinco de Mayo where the Mexican army defeated the French back in 1862.
  3. Napolean died on May the 5th 1821 exactly three years after the birth of Karl Marx -05/05/1818
  4. irritating occurences frequently appear for absolutely no rational reason
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