Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Milang_Panthers]

A female sheep is called a Ewe.




























Yeah I'm shit at this.

Ewe sure are

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Ewe sure are

That's baaaa-d.

 

[Bosun]

when the royal family travel to other countries they never all fly on the same plane in case there is an accident.

That's actually fairly common across a lot of sectors, for work when we travel, colleagues and I are split up over separate flights for the same reason.

 

[The_Reaper]

I was told that if you dropped a coin off the top of the Empire State Building it would build up enough momentum during the drop that it would embed itself into the footpath below.

I recall watching an episode of mythbusters in year 10 science where this was disproved

 

[Cruyff14]

You can't lick your own elbow

It still never gets old seeing someone try.

Not true. My friend can do it, and quite easily.

My friend can lick her own elbows.

Not just touch it either, like seriously, she can lick it like an ice-cream cone.

Still can't believe it whenever my friend does it.

 

[Borry]

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/interesting-facts-about-the-world#72

 

[ioppolo]

Weed is apparently completely legal in North Korea.

The year in North Korea is 105 (apparently), not 2015, it's measured from the birth of the nation's founder, Kim Il-Sung.

 

[Gough]

Weed is apparently completely legal in North Korea.

Cool fact. Googled and found this.
http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/09/on-smoking-weed-in-north-korea.html

They seemed to be ever-so-slightly uncomfortable with our discovery of their special plant; no doubt aware of its legal status in our own countries, it was their job to make sure we saw a positive representation of the DPRK. I don’t think they had planned on chaperoning a giggling pack of red-eyed imbeciles around their country’s proud military monuments.

 

[Cmarsh]

Weed is apparently completely legal in North Korea.

The year in North Korea is 105 (apparently), not 2015, it's measured from the birth of the nation's founder, Kim Il-Sung.

and yet viewing pornography apparently is greeted with the death penalty.

 

[worbod]

A mosquito has 47 teeth

 

[Bardo State]

It does less damage to drop a cat from 50 storeys high than 7 storeys high.

When dropped from 7 storeys the cat will have already reached its (largely non-fatal) terminal velocity so dropping it from a greater height gives it more time to manoeuvre in order to minimise injury.

 

[hagansbull]

Actor Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman that murdered a judge and claimed he was on the Grassy Knoll the day JFK was shot

 

[Freofalcon]

It does less damage to drop a cat from 50 storeys high than 7 storeys high.

When dropped from 7 storeys the cat will have already reached its (largely non-fatal) terminal velocity so dropping it from a greater height gives it more time to manoeuvre in order to minimise injury.

I'd like to see Mythbusters try to prove this scenario .

 

[Zach Package]

Superbowl sunday accounts for more than 10% of yearly avocado sales in the US

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Ear prints and vagina prints are as unique as fingerprints

And human irises.

FACT: Most people who see the above .gif think it's something else entirely. Including mods.

 

[worbod]

On May 5, 1967, Paul McCartney shaved off his Sgt Pepper moustache.

 

[Messenger]

And human irises.

FACT: Most people who see the above .gif think it's something else entirely. Including mods.

We're not the only ones who have trouble identifying crucial anatomy at key moments.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

We're not the only ones who have trouble identifying crucial anatomy at key moments.

Unfortunately that bit of trivia DID have a point...

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The oldest person ever (Jeanne Calment of France) lived to be 122 years old.

She was already 81 years old when the 1956 Olympics happened in Melbourne.

 

[Messenger]

Unfortunately that bit of trivia DID have a point...

I understand, but the door was wide open.

 

[TheLoungeLizard]

I hate mushrooms.

 

[aflcliche]

Salmon swim upstream, tuna swim downstream

 

[worbod]

T. S. Eliot is an anagram of toilets

 

[Rod Stroker]

The capital of California is Sacramento, not LA.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The capital of California is Sacramento, not LA.

The capital of Florida is Tallahassee and not Miami.