The useless, but interesting facts thread.

[Blood Trail]

You cannot lick your elbow!

Can't lick yer rear, either.

[k9trainer]

Can't lick yer rear, either.

[segbert]

Kangaroos can't jump backwards

[mfloski]

MSNBC supports Obama, yet considers themselves news!

[M16]

Women, cannot touch their elbows, behind their back.
Ask one to show ya.

Fail! The title of the thread is useless facts. This is a very useful fact.

[Sparkles]

William Taft converted the Whitehouse Stables into a four car garage in1909.

[El Viejo]

The Guinness Book of Records is in the Guinness Book of Records for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

[rossivey]

Rule of thumb

Comes from back in the day when if your wife acted up you could beat her with anything as long as it wasnt no bigger around than your thumb.

"Can't do much damage with that, now can we? Perhaps it should've been Rule of Wrist!" - Boondock Saints

Couldn't resist!!!

[Matteo]

Mice have no shoulders.

thenwhat are their front legs attached to????

[cshall999]

The saying "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when there were wooden ships.

The spots in the deck of a ship that held the cannon balls were called brass monkeys and were actually made of brass. When it got cold enough the brass would shrink thus no longer holding the cannon balls.

[Legdog]

All I learned (remember) in biochemistry in two facts:

If you crush fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) you get formic acid.

Antifreeze (ethylene glycol)is not inherently poisonous but the metabolites are. If a dog or child injests antifreeze, you can block the metabolites by giving the patient ethanol (grain alcohol).

[Sparkles]

All I learned (remember) in biochemistry in two facts:

If you crush fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) you get formic acid.

Antifreeze (ethylene glycol)is not inherently poisonous but the metabolites are. If a dog or child injests antifreeze, you can block the metabolites by giving the patient ethanol (grain alcohol).

Good ethanol fact to know there.

[Sparkles]

If you hook jello up to an EEG it registers movements almost identical to an adult human's brain waves.

[Duck-n-Shoot]

The white stripes between the lanes on a hiGhway are ten feet long with thirty feet between each stripe

[Grndchecker]

Tilapia are also called "toilet trout" because they are stocked in septic plants to help with sewage disposal. At one time, NASA had the idea to put them in the space shuttle's waste holding tanks because they will eat everything except the stems and seeds of plants.