Useless Fact of the Day

[taz775]

queen bees can lay up to 800-1500 eggs each day

[thecarl775]

When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less.
this would be good for chubby people

[Lonny]

Utility workers in the desert of southern California have developed a unique system for finding gas leaks. The desert areas of South California are heavily populated by a bird known as the turkey buzzard, which has an exceptionally keen sense of smell. The utility companies add a substance to the natural gas (which is odorless in its pure state) that gives it a smell that arouses the turkey buzzard's mating instincts. Whenever there is a break in the line, vast numbers of excited birds are drawn to the spot. By looking for the clusters of these anxious birds, linemen are able to determine the precise location of the leak.

Not really useless but thought id share.

[taz775]

A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid. i wonder why they would call it a ten gallon hat

[ICBM]

Taken from: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2021/whats-the-origin-of-ten-gallon-hat

"Ten-gallon hat" is the result of a linguistic mix-up. "Galón" is the Spanish word for "braid." Some vaqueros wore as many as ten braided hatbands on their sombreros, and those were called "ten galón hats."
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[taz775]

oh so it doesnt really mean gallon it means braids thankyou very much i never knew that

[The Big Hobb]

i got a haircut this morning, and not gonna lie, im looking quite dapper

[taz775]

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime i wonder how pople know this do they count or something

[Ernie]

There are about 40 million different possible games of checkers. There are about 10 trillion ways to play out the first 10 moves of chess.
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[doughtakerSTM]

In any variant of 5-card draw video poker, there is exactly a 1 in 649,740 chance on any hand that you will receive a natural royal flush on the deal.

[Lonny]

The high roofs of London taxicabs were originally designed to keep gentlemen from knocking off their top hats as they entered and left the vehicles.

[taz775]

Brain waves can be used to power an electric train. this is not that useless just thought some of you pople would want to know

[Lonny]

There is a 6 foot high stone monument dedicated to the comic-strip character Popeye in Crystal City, Texas.

[voosit]

The TV show "Friends" was orignally called "Insomnia Cafe"

Personally I think "Friends" is a much better name.

[Lonny]

In 1924 a Ford automobile cost $265 and the average annual salary was $1236.