The useless, but interesting facts thread.

[bryan sandlin]

five counties in texas that have only one city.

[Speedgoat]

Domestic cats will feed on your dead body within the first 24 hours of your demise.

[Monster Buck]

If a step is off by a 1/4 inch you will trip on it.

[Kingrabbit]

i love lamp..

[lbbf]

In an abridged dictionary, the kind that doesn't have all the words in it, still has the word dictionary in it.

[Sparkles]

The founder of Segway died in a Segway accident.

[AJMag]

Asteroids are in the hemisphere but hemeroids are in your arse. Shouldn't it be reversed?

That one's going in the books for later use in a biology research paper

[Bowanta]

Elephants masturbate using their trunk

That is because they do not have Thumbs

[Bowanta]

A mouse has 7 vertabrea in it's neck. The same as a Giraffe and a Human.

[Neck]

Unless you're Gene Simmons or double jointed, you cannot touch your elbow with your tongue.

Hahaha! You just tried it didn't you?!?

[rwurz]

Ha just got my wife to do it. Greatness

[PSD Ryan]

My cats breath smells like cat food.

I bent my wookie

[boblee]

The term "hooker" originated during the civil war.
Union General Joseph Hooker had a penchant for prostitutes
and when on leave in Washington, he visited them frequently.
They came to be known as "Hooker's girls". Later on,
simply "hookers".

Bob Lee

[Matteo]

Unless you're Gene Simmons or double jointed, you cannot touch your elbow with your tongue.

Hahaha! You just tried it didn't you?!?

There are many things we can't lick on our own body.

[SouthTX1911]

The word Sh*t is actually an acronym that stands for: Shipping High In Transit (S.H.I.T.).
When there was a very unpleasant smelling cargo aboard old day ships they would raise it up in the air to keep from stinkin up the whole ship. It could be anything with an offensive smell but more regularly it was manure.

A Black Widow spider's bite is 15x more toxic than a Western Diamondback's. (ounce per ounce of venom)

Native Americans used to use Locust thorns as small game arrow heads. They effectively acted like a judo point.