Posts Tagged ‘ useless knowledge ’

In light of my recent trip to Ecuador….I thought you should all know a really cool (yet useless) fact. During this trip, I *of course* had to see (and straddle) the Equator. I didn’t know that there were so many science experiments and tricks that you could do there (Example: You weigh less in...
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This fact made me a little sad… In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. Read more! Poor piggy!
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The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
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Pennsylvania dairy tastes 500 x better than Wisconsin or Californian dairy. …..what? it’s true.
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The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet! Wow. It’s really funny. If you have a blackberry and you try to change your font the sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” previews that font. I always thought that was so weird....
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The Statue of Liberty is actually a statue of two different people. The face was that of Charlotte Bartholdi, the mother of the designer Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The sculptor’s girlfriend, Jeanne-Emilie, was the model for the statue’s arms and body. Who-da thunk it?
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In Tucson, Arizona, it is illegal for women to wear pants. Update:  No, it’s not.
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The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
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Useless knowledge of the day (UK of the day – catchy right?): The dot over the I is called the “tittle.” Okay…since it’s the first UK of the day i’ll give another one.. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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