Useless Trivia

[fireedud]

57.3% of all statistics are made up.

and 67.09% of people will not question a statistic

[animorpherv1]

The longest war lasted 115 years, the shortest one? 38 minutes.

[reminisco]

the largest underground mall in the world is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the USA.





and it is very shitty.

[wicked]

the largest underground mall in the world is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the USA.

Wrong. PATH is, in Toronto.

According to Guinness World Records, PATH is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with 27 km (16 miles) of shopping arcades. It has 371,600 sq. metres (4 million sq. ft) of retail space. In fact, the retail space connected to PATH rivals the West Edmonton Mall in size.

[reminisco]

the largest underground mall in the world is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the USA.

Wrong. PATH is, in Toronto.

According to Guinness World Records, PATH is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with 27 km (16 miles) of shopping arcades. It has 371,600 sq. metres (4 million sq. ft) of retail space. In fact, the retail space connected to PATH rivals the West Edmonton Mall in size.

interesting. i stand corrected. then, the Gallery I & II in Philadelphia must be the largest underground mall in the USA.

someone correct me if that's wrong too, but i'm definitely going to need to find out when the brochure was printed.

[heavycola]

I think it's written "St", but the name is "Saint" (hence the full stop after the contraction). Pedantically, you could say that the sign has none of the letters of the word "mackerel" in it. The name, however, does.

It is still a fascnating fact, and one of the most magnificently useless I've ever seen.

I'll eat heavycola's hat if you can find me one instance of St John's Wood, London anywhere on the internet as "Saint John's Wood". Here this should get you started - http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=f ... gle+Search

thank you bertros. jesus christ.

FACT:
123,000 rwandans are being slaughtered EVERY DAY and all you right-wing evangelical fundamenterrorist cocksuckers can think to do is argue about dubious factoids. You should all be ashamed. This thread is hereby renamed the 'stop the genocide' thread. And if you dare try to rehijack - and listen """moderator""", that includes suboptimal posts about """"keeping things on track"""" or some such NONSENSE, then you DON'T CARE ABOUT AFRICA.

DO YOU CARE ABOUT AFRICA?

Hmmm...should've thought of that before you kicked out the white man, eh, Samba?

Are you asking me for a dance?

[DAZMCFC]

This is a shameful - of my "Did you know that?" thread that I started.

did you know that we dont care?


Hull was, before being promoted this season, the largest city in europe not to have had a top flight football team

Psst, Sam, they've not been promoted yet. they have to beat Bristol City in the play-off final.

[The1exile]

Over 700 types of apple are grown in britain today, yet only 3 types are usually sold in supermarkets thanks to prescott.

[The1exile]

A "Gropecuntelane" is the earliest citation in the entry for the word "cunt" in the Oxford English Dictionary, which dates the reference to about 1230.

[sam_levi_11]

This is a shameful - of my "Did you know that?" thread that I started.

did you know that we dont care?


Hull was, before being promoted this season, the largest city in europe not to have had a top flight football team

Psst, Sam, they've not been promoted yet. they have to beat Bristol City in the play-off final.

yes but as much i wish them to fail, they wont

[Dancing Mustard]

Ping-Pong was invented in China and named after its two creators, who created the game while serving on a warship stationed in Kowloon harbour.

[suggs]

Mao's favourite meal was a Big Mac.

[V.I.]

Fred Rogers and Jim Henson were the last true American heroes.

[animorpherv1]

I don't count that as a statistic. I count it as a point of view.

[Dancing Mustard]

The most insiginificant thing ever to be recorded by man was captured at 2210 GMT in Mustard Laborotories, London, England. The substance was named "Animorpherv1's Stupid Wrong Opinion" and was statisticaly measured as "Completely fucking insignificant", it had a total weight of only 0.0000000 Significons.

[suggs]

The funniest thing i've seen for ages

[rhoges6]

John Hancock was succeeded as governor of Massachusetts by Thomas Cushing.

[william18]

John Hancock was succeeded as governor of Massachusetts by Thomas Cushing.

[suggs]

John Hancock was succeeded as governor of Massachusetts by Thomas Cushing.

funny as f*ck.
damn it. I meant williams response. fucking genius.

[Snorri1234]

The most insiginificant thing ever to be recorded by man was captured at 2210 GMT in Mustard Laborotories, London, England. The substance was named "Animorpherv1's Stupid Wrong Opinion" and was statisticaly measured as "Completely fucking insignificant", it had a total weight of only 0.0000000 Significons.

One of these days I'm going to make a thread which features all of your posts that made me giggle.

[suggs]

Save if for when Mustard gets perma banned. Like the BBC, we should have our Obituaries all in place and ready to go, so a nation can mourn

[V.I.]

Vanna White was born with both male and female sexual organs.

So was Randy Jackson, of "American Idol" fame.

[V.I.]

Music legend Bjork sleeps between 16-18 hours each day.

[Snorri1234]

Save if for when Mustard gets perma banned. Like the BBC, we should have our Obituaries all in place and ready to go, so a nation can mourn

A Free Mustard thread is forming in my mind already.

[rhoges6]

If you ate nothing but rabbit, you would die because there are not enough vitamins and minerals in the meat to keep you alive. It takes more vitamins and minerals to digest the meat than you get out of the meat.