Useless Knowledge

[cabinetman]

Only 47 decimal places of pi would be sufficiently precise to inscribe a circle around the visible universe that doesn't deviate from perfect circularity by more than the distance across a single proton.

I can't verify the truth or accuracy of that bit of knowledge. It doesn't matter as this thread is about useless knowledge.

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[jackellis]

Well here's another useless bit of related information that might be an urban legend. Sometime in the 1990s, the Indiana legislature tried to pass a law that would limit the value of Pi to two decimal places (3.14).

[cabinetman]

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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[Pappy]

Maybe not completely useless...

...if you need to defend against a ticket.

The law in most states requires a driver to signal 100 feet before making a turn or lane change. At 70 MPH you will travel 102 feet per second. If the signal blinks once, you are legal!

[LCHIEN]

82.3% of all facts are made up.

[cabinetman]

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

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[scmhogg]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." Abraham Lincoln.

Supposedly, Eisenhower was appalled at the fact that one half of Americans have below average intelligence.

Steve

[gsmittle]

It takes a big dog to weigh a ton. Imagine the pooper scooper.

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[phrog]

There are no words in the English language that rhyme with "orange" or "silver."

[cabinetman]

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.


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[phrog]

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.


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A group of geese in your yard is a mess.

[cabinetman]

A group of geese in your yard is a mess.

We don't get geese, just ibis...
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[Dal300]

Crabs walk sideways and Lobsters walk straight.

[phrog]

We don't get geese, just ibis...
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So, what is a group of ibises called? In fact, what is the word for more than one ibis? ( I guessed ibises.) We ain't got nothin' like that in East Tennessee. Closest thing we got are buzzards.

[LCHIEN]

A group of geese in your yard is a mess.

in some parts of the world it is dinner.