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Title: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: The Hollywood NeoCon on November 08, 2010, 12:04:23 PM
I'm not talking about "I've found my estranged father," or some life-changing shit like that.

Just some answer to a seemingly irrelevant, yet exceedingly annoying stupid question you've had for years.

I'll go first...

Q - Why do they [bars, restaurants, McDonald's] pour gallons of ice cubes into the urinals in men's bathrooms?

A - Becuase it apparently reduces the odor.

Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Chris_ on November 08, 2010, 03:46:59 PM
this (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,50646.msg566609.html#msg566609) :whistling:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: mamacags on November 08, 2010, 04:07:07 PM
I learned why I see idiots walking about with furry animal tails hanging out their pants.

I learned why no matter how I try to get my teeth white they never get there.  Gingers have a reddish pigment in their teeth.

Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: IassaFTots on November 08, 2010, 04:20:28 PM
I learned that if you have a bunch of lightning bugs, you won't have fire ants.  Because lightning bugs love fire ant larvae. 
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Thor on November 08, 2010, 04:23:26 PM
I learned that if you have a bunch of lightning bugs, you won't have fire ants.  Because lightning bugs love fire ant larvae. 

Somebody is feeding you a line of Bullshit....... We have lightning bugs up here & fire ant mounds galore..... The ants are still here and growing in population....
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: ExGeeEye on November 08, 2010, 04:29:33 PM
Not stupid, but perhaps trivial:

Roger Bannister is still alive.

My dad was in the Air Force; from first to fifth grades I attended four schools in as many states.  In each school I read in a textbook about Roger Bannister's boyhood injuries and how he overcame them to be a famous runner.  In adulthood, when I thought of him and his inspiring story, I assumed that he had long since passed away.

A few weeks ago I was talking about schooldays to my wife, who didn't remember ever reading about him, so I looked him up in wikipedia.

I'm forty-six.  I first read about Roger Bannister forty years ago.  He's still alive.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: IassaFTots on November 08, 2010, 04:33:45 PM
Somebody is feeding you a line of Bullshit....... We have lightning bugs up here & fire ant mounds galore..... The ants are still here and growing in population....

Whoops.  What I meant to say is that if you have lightning bugs you don't have a lot of fire ants, because fire ants eat lightning bug larvae.  Which may or may not be true, but last year I had lightning bugs, and no fire ants, and this year I had less lightning bugs, and a minor amount of fire ants.

But most importantly, I learned that some people are just plain ole grumpy. You would think after having their bitch slapped out of em, they might mellow a little bit, but that don't work one iota.   :tongue:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Thor on November 08, 2010, 04:40:12 PM

But most importantly, I learned that some people are just plain ole grumpy. You would think after having their bitch slapped out of em, they might mellow a little bit, but that don't work one iota.   :tongue:

Not with THIS Native Texan!!  :-) :popcorn: :tongue:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: IassaFTots on November 08, 2010, 04:59:53 PM
Not with THIS Native Texan!!  :-) :popcorn: :tongue:

Sounds like someone is as full of wind as a corn-eating horse.... :whistling:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: NHSparky on November 08, 2010, 08:52:31 PM
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 08, 2010, 08:55:56 PM
Not stupid, but perhaps trivial:

Roger Bannister is still alive.

My dad was in the Air Force; from first to fifth grades I attended four schools in as many states.  In each school I read in a textbook about Roger Bannister's boyhood injuries and how he overcame them to be a famous runner.  In adulthood, when I thought of him and his inspiring story, I assumed that he had long since passed away.

A few weeks ago I was talking about schooldays to my wife, who didn't remember ever reading about him, so I looked him up in wikipedia.

I'm forty-six.  I first read about Roger Bannister forty years ago.  He's still alive.

Amazing - broke the 4-minute mile barrier. And he's still kicking.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 08, 2010, 08:57:44 PM
Author EB White had halitosis so bad that he was almost a hermit - very, very rarely ever went to a social function.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Alpha Mare on November 08, 2010, 10:35:12 PM
That I really did see one of these- (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGV6uLbieL-L05gppiAY67sDJ_HoIAzQ-S6whn4BwKRuQvEaI&t=1&usg=__omMK67pIXXyF7feBFaKCMXOYQTM=)
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: cavegal on November 08, 2010, 10:58:13 PM
Obama was born in Hawaii
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: dutch508 on November 08, 2010, 11:09:43 PM
Thermal nanite technology and holograms brought down the WTC towers.

MIHOP

LIHOP

Flexability of woman kind is simply awesome.

Boobiez.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: NHSparky on November 08, 2010, 11:43:47 PM
Nigerian princes are sitting on a boatload of cash they're trying to launder and give me a cut of, if only I'll write them a small check to "cover expenses."
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Celtic Rose on November 09, 2010, 12:42:41 AM
Quote
I learned why no matter how I try to get my teeth white they never get there.  Gingers have a reddish pigment in their teeth

Thanks for sharing mamacags.  I did not know that.  I'd still like them whiter though  :-)
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: vesta111 on November 09, 2010, 11:09:18 AM
The smartest dog in the world is the Border Collie.

2 Presidents owned Newfoundland dogs.===Lewis and Clark took a Newfoundland dog on their trip out west and when the Indians caught the dog they threatened to kill all Indians in the settlement if the dog was harmed and not returned.

FDR was so in love with his Scottie Falla that there is a statue of the dog at his feet in W. DC

Bill Clinton's dog , Buddy was the only friend he had that he could talk to without wondering if the conversation would be leaked.

This I am not so sure of but I do remember there is a Statue of an Irish Wolf Hound in Denmark???   Seems the dog was the  beloved pet of the king and after leaving his baby in the care of the dog he came home to find blood everywhere and no baby.  He killed his dog only to find the baby safe and a dead Wolfe behind the curtains.   Story is the king forever after never smiled.

The storeys of men in combat and the dogs that lived with them slept beside them and died to protect them--then the storeys of our combat troops that moved heaven and earth to bring home their dogs only to see them killed as not suitable for life in America.     SOB's  that prevented this.



Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Wineslob on November 09, 2010, 02:01:26 PM
Obama is black, sort-of.....
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: ColonialMarine0431 on November 09, 2010, 02:31:40 PM
Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: cavegal on November 09, 2010, 03:04:04 PM
Michelle Obama has wonderful fashion sense.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Thor on November 09, 2010, 09:17:37 PM
Michelle Obama has wonderful fashion sense.

Since you didn't indicate any sarcasm, you deserve a BS for that statement....
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 10, 2010, 07:04:48 AM
Since you didn't indicate any sarcasm, you deserve a BS for that statement....

Uh, the title of the thread is "Name One Stupid, Trivial Fact You've Learned via the Internetz..."

I'd say Michelle Obama's fashion sense is stupid all by itself. No need for additional sarcasm indicators.

Bitchslapped for being inflexible.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on November 10, 2010, 09:36:17 AM
I'm not talking about "I've found my estranged father," or some life-changing shit like that.

Just some answer to a seemingly irrelevant, yet exceedingly annoying stupid question you've had for years.

I'll go first...

Q - Why do they [bars, restaurants, McDonald's] pour gallons of ice cubes into the urinals in men's bathrooms?

A - Becuase it apparently reduces the odor.


Two girls,one cup......Who knew people did that before the internet? :o
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on November 10, 2010, 09:54:54 AM
Q - Why do they [bars, restaurants, McDonald's] pour gallons of ice cubes into the urinals in men's bathrooms?

A - Becuase it apparently reduces the odor.



It really does reduce the odor?  I don't know about that, the urinals that I've seen with ice cubes in them don't seem to smell any better than those without.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Duke Nukum on November 10, 2010, 11:27:42 AM
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 10, 2010, 11:37:57 AM
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.

man, that's pretty obscure.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: thundley4 on November 10, 2010, 11:43:17 AM
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.

I think that's wrong.  They are round because it is a shape that doesn't allow the cover to be manipulated in such a way that the cover could pass through the hole.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Duke Nukum on November 10, 2010, 11:48:46 AM
I think that's wrong.  They are round because it is a shape that doesn't allow the cover to be manipulated in such a way that the cover could pass through the hole.
Oh yeah, that's it.  So much for remembering the trival facts.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: The Hollywood NeoCon on November 10, 2010, 12:16:23 PM
It really does reduce the odor?  I don't know about that, the urinals that I've seen with ice cubes in them don't seem to smell any better than those without.

That's primarily due to the fact that most of us don't hang around in some Panama City, "Sailor, wanna hump-hump?" bar....




Like you, Wiggum.  :tongue: :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: cavegal on November 10, 2010, 05:05:15 PM
Since you didn't indicate any sarcasm, you deserve a BS for that statement....
OK Thor the topic is.....ONE STUPID,TRIVIAL FACT! so as soon as I can 1+ to you..... :-) :popcorn:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Thor on November 10, 2010, 06:06:12 PM
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: cavegal on November 10, 2010, 06:10:17 PM
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
Seems this is a "true" fact!! :hammer:   +1 :popcorn:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: IassaFTots on November 10, 2010, 06:33:44 PM
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

Awwwwww..........  :grouphug:


Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: franksolich on November 10, 2010, 06:37:40 PM
St. Jerome (circa 347-420) was the first person in history who could read without moving his lips.

Actually, I learned that in an old--I think from the 1930s--issue of the New Yorker magazine, not on the internet.  In case one doubts, the New Yorker used to have "fact-checkers" on their staff, and in its heyday the New Yorker was famous for being accurate.

Not so much the past 35-40 years, though.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: franksolich on November 10, 2010, 06:44:42 PM
Did I kill this thread?

It was really active until I posted.

Sorry; didn't mean to.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: IassaFTots on November 10, 2010, 06:57:46 PM
Did I kill this thread?

It was really active until I posted.

Sorry; didn't mean to.

Absolutely not!  I think everyone just went to go eat dinner. 
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: thundley4 on November 10, 2010, 07:02:25 PM
I learned that Rule 34 is true.   :whistling:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: cavegal on November 10, 2010, 07:03:19 PM
Did I kill this thread?

It was really active until I posted.

Sorry; didn't mean to.
No I do not think you did. I am going to go and watch TV now.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Chris_ on November 10, 2010, 07:56:29 PM
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.
Unless, like my idiot cousin, you try to use a 30" lid on a 36" manhole, then it falls straight to the bottom and stays there for 30 years
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Celtic Rose on November 10, 2010, 11:21:18 PM
St. Jerome (circa 347-420) was the first person in history who could read without moving his lips.

Actually, I learned that in an old--I think from the 1930s--issue of the New Yorker magazine, not on the internet.  In case one doubts, the New Yorker used to have "fact-checkers" on their staff, and in its heyday the New Yorker was famous for being accurate.

Not so much the past 35-40 years, though.

That is such a bizarre thought.  Reading silently is so second nature for me, that the idea of people not being able to is somewhat incomprehensible. 
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 11, 2010, 07:31:14 AM
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

Pot, meet kettle.

 :whistling:

Just to keep this on track, with all the exploits, wars, and battles that Lawrence of Arabia (T.E. Lawrence) went through, the guy died in a motorcycle accident in England at the age of 46.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 12, 2010, 03:42:11 PM
It's only stupid and trivial in the subject matter concerning . . .

Members of certain message boards will believe any tripe that is posted about those that they despise.

(DU, anyone?)
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Chris_ on November 14, 2010, 04:13:30 PM
Washington DC has more residents than the entire state of Wyoming. :popcorn:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: The Hollywood NeoCon on November 14, 2010, 05:40:54 PM
Washington DC has more residents than the entire state of Wyoming. :popcorn:

No shit?!?!?!?

That's really amazing.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 14, 2010, 05:43:12 PM
Washington DC has more residents than the entire state of Wyoming. :popcorn:

I'd go with Wyoming.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: ColonialMarine0431 on November 14, 2010, 06:22:55 PM
Ants never sleep.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: NHSparky on November 14, 2010, 08:07:08 PM
The NRA did NOT originate in the United States.  The original NRA was founded in Great Britian in 1860.  The US NRA didn't form until 1871.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: JLO on November 14, 2010, 09:35:37 PM
Obama got elected as the President of The United States of America.   :argh:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: IassaFTots on November 15, 2010, 01:38:03 PM
Obama got elected as the President of The United States of America.   :argh:

 :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 15, 2010, 02:10:52 PM
Obama got elected as the President of The United States of America.   :argh:

Well, it certainly qualifies as "stupid", but it's by no means trivial. In the short span of 22 months, he's managed to screw things up to levels of OMG never before seen by mankind.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: NHSparky on November 16, 2010, 12:37:16 AM
More bizzare stuff:

--The quack of a duck doesn't echo.

--The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

--Every episode of Seinfeld has a Superman in it somewhere.

--The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: mamacags on November 16, 2010, 06:31:19 AM
The Bible has also been translated into lolcat speak.

Nikola Tesla (one of my favorite guys from history EVER)  At the Chicago Columbia Exposition of 1893, he sent 200,000 volts through his body to prove that electricity was safe. It was, although his hair stood on end for a week.
and
By the age of five, young Tesla had already invented his own waterwheel and read the 100-volume set of the Complete Voltaire. By comparison, we could, um, count to 10 and pretty regularly avoid peeing on ourselves.
and
Tesla once predicted, “The household’s daily newspaper will be printed ‘wirelessly’ in the home during the night.”

That guy just blows my mind! 
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Thor on November 16, 2010, 06:54:01 AM
The Bible has also been translated into lolcat speak.

Nikola Tesla (one of my favorite guys from history EVER)  At the Chicago Columbia Exposition of 1893, he sent 200,000 volts through his body to prove that electricity was safe. It was, although his hair stood on end for a week.
and
By the age of five, young Tesla had already invented his own waterwheel and read the 100-volume set of the Complete Voltaire. By comparison, we could, um, count to 10 and pretty regularly avoid peeing on ourselves.
and
Tesla once predicted, “The household’s daily newspaper will be printed ‘wirelessly’ in the home during the night.”

That guy just blows my mind! 

Tesla was an absolute genius and way ahead of his time. He was also robbed of many of his inventions.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Chris_ on November 16, 2010, 09:12:44 AM
If you rank all the countries' land mass in the world per capita, the United States' position does not change.

Link goes to one enormous JPEG: What if the largest countries had the biggest populations? (http://i.imgur.com/c6Agr.jpg)
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on November 16, 2010, 10:44:27 AM
Tesla was an absolute genius and way ahead of his time. He was also robbed of many of his inventions.
Thomas Edison being the biggest culprit.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: mamacags on November 16, 2010, 02:58:24 PM
Thomas Edison along with being a thief was a piece of shit as a human.  The more I read about him the more insane he seems.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: ColonialMarine0431 on November 16, 2010, 04:13:29 PM
The NAACP was founded by white people. Sumptin' I doubt that Revrun Jessie ever mentions to his zombies.
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: JLO on November 17, 2010, 01:32:12 AM
Well, it certainly qualifies as "stupid", but it's by no means trivial. In the short span of 22 months, he's managed to screw things up to levels of OMG never before seen by mankind.

I stand corrected! :-)

Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: NHSparky on November 17, 2010, 04:01:01 AM
--Oysters are amisexual, meaning they will change their sex from male to female and vice versa, in their case several times over their lifetimes.

--Natural pearls will melt in vinegar.

--Scuba divers can't fart at depths greater than 33 feet.

Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 17, 2010, 05:26:18 AM

--Scuba divers can't fart at depths greater than 33 feet.



Now THAT is interesting.  :rotf:

I'd think I'd want to hang around at say, oh, 30 feet or so, just for the pleasure of filling my wet suit with pungent odor. I wonder if this is the origin of the term "bubble butt".  :lmao:
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: thundley4 on November 17, 2010, 03:42:20 PM
1X1 = 1
11X11 = 121
111X111 = 12,321
..
..
111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Thor on November 17, 2010, 03:48:16 PM
Now THAT is interesting.  :rotf:

I'd think I'd want to hang around at say, oh, 30 feet or so, just for the pleasure of filling my wet suit with pungent odor. I wonder if this is the origin of the term "bubble butt".  :lmao:

Every dog likes to smell his own........  :fuelfire: :lol: 
Title: Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
Post by: Eupher on November 17, 2010, 04:38:13 PM
Every dog likes to smell his own........  :fuelfire: :lol: 

arf arf.   :tongue: