10 Really, REALLY Useless Facts

[Kesmai]

http://blog.payitforwardonline.com/2006/09/24/10-really-really-useless-facts/

M.I.T. Boston in the 1930s. Every male student that brought a girl to a ?dorm party? had to pay an admission fee based on his date?s weight. They paid 1 cent per pound and an addictional 10 cents if if their date was a blonde, 15 cents for brunettes and 20 cents for redheads.

 

[imported_LoKe]

6. When a male honeybee is doing the dirty with the queen honeybee, after he is finished, his genitals explode.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[intogamer]

lolz...

 

[abefastcash]

now my life is a little more complete!

 

[dexvx]

5. Total cereal provides 100% of your daily requirement of iron, REAL IRON. It has very very small flakes/particles of iron in it. Try it yourself: Crush up the cereal into a fine powder. Add water to the cereal and drop in a strong magnet. Stir for a long time (your arms will be sore after this activity - use a mechanical magnetic stirrer if you can get one). When you pull the magnet out, you will see lots of little iron shavings attached to it.

We actually tried it in our 8th grade science class years back. Its quite surprising.

 

[her209]

Overweight redheads = owned?

 

[Epic Fail]

shens

 

[Kesmai]

i feel for the honeybee, imagine someone put an m80 firecracker to your balls.... awww poor honeybee

 

[Amused]

Electric Pickle.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3795273284666354708

Confirmed.

 

[Amused]

http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/Plants_Human/bees/bees.html

Explode? No, ripped off? You bet.

Ouch!

 

[Kesmai]

Originally posted by: Amused
Electric Pickle.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3795273284666354708

Confirmed.

HAHA, thank you for that.

Everyone go digg this article:

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/10_Really_REALLY_Useless_Facts

 

[Amused]

7. When a male praying mantis is doing the the dirty the female extends her jaw and chomps off his skull. This causes an endorphin-like chemical to be released in the headless male?s body and he completes his task.

Not always true. This is something that happens only occasionally.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_007

 

[mugs]

This is at least the third link you've posted to your blog in the last two days (well, one of those links was to a Digg link to your blog). I think that's generally discouraged here.

 

[Kesmai]

i read a little bit and it explained in detail.. but i'm not trying to read a story about praying mantis's =P

 

[Kesmai]

who said it's my blog? and even IF it was, are these posts not extremely entertaining?

do you know what assume spells? ASS-U-ME.. makes an ass out of you and me.

 

[AnyMal]

Sun-dried raisins are dried in the sun

That was a revelation

 

[Amused]

The Teflon story is a complete fable:

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/o...//web.mit.edu/invent/iow/plunkett.html

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Kesmai
who said it's my blog? and even IF it was, are these posts not extremely entertaining?

do you know what assume spells? ASS-U-ME.. makes an ass out of you and me.

The dolphin one was entertaining. This one is kind of meh. I knew the praying mantis one is not true most of the time, so that made me wonder how much truth there is in the rest of the list. The list isn't so entertaining if you don't believe it's true. Maybe cite some sources?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Amused
The Teflon story is a complete fable:

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/o...//web.mit.edu/invent/iow/plunkett.html

Yeah I figured that one was false too, since teflon was invented by DuPont...

 

[SlitheryDee]

4. Teflon is the most slippery substance known to man, that?s why they use on pans to prevent sticking. It took the creator of it two years to find a store that was willing to sell them, that store sold 200 of them within 2 days. Everyone wanted them now, so he created a manufacturing plant, but by the time it was constructed, dozens of others already stole his idea and had their pots & pans in stores.

from wikipedia

PTFE is sometimes said to be a spin-off from the U.S. space program with more down-to-earth applications; this is an urban legend, as Teflon® cooking pans were commonplace before Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961. PTFE was discovered serendipitously by Roy Plunkett of DuPont in 1938, while attempting to make a new CFC refrigerant, when the perfluorethylene polymerized in its storage container. DuPont patented it in 1941, and registered the Teflon® trademark in 1944.

someone's wrong here...

Edit: damn beat me to it.

 

[Amused]

Microwave story is true:

http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/history.html

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

4. Teflon is the most slippery substance known to man, that?s why they use on pans to prevent sticking. It took the creator of it two years to find a store that was willing to sell them, that store sold 200 of them within 2 days. Everyone wanted them now, so he created a manufacturing plant, but by the time it was constructed, dozens of others already stole his idea and had their pots & pans in stores.

from wikipedia

PTFE is sometimes said to be a spin-off from the U.S. space program with more down-to-earth applications; this is an urban legend, as Teflon® cooking pans were commonplace before Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961. PTFE was discovered serendipitously by Roy Plunkett of DuPont in 1938, while attempting to make a new CFC refrigerant, when the perfluorethylene polymerized in its storage container. DuPont patented it in 1941, and registered the Teflon® trademark in 1944.

someone's wrong here...

You're a little late...

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: her209
Overweight redheads = owned?

...that'll teach em .

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: Amused
The Teflon story is a complete fable:

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/o...//web.mit.edu/invent/iow/plunkett.html

Yeah, that one didn't pass my bs detector. If the fictional inventor could prove he invented it first then he could just get a patent after the fact and sue/force licensing fees on the copycats.

 

[jtusa]

Originally posted by: dexvx

5. Total cereal provides 100% of your daily requirement of iron, REAL IRON. It has very very small flakes/particles of iron in it. Try it yourself: Crush up the cereal into a fine powder. Add water to the cereal and drop in a strong magnet. Stir for a long time (your arms will be sore after this activity - use a mechanical magnetic stirrer if you can get one). When you pull the magnet out, you will see lots of little iron shavings attached to it.

We actually tried it in our 8th grade science class years back. Its quite surprising.

Stupid question...is that a good thing?