Useless Factoid of the day

[Fubar512]

I'm starting a new thread, one that everyone's welcome to contribute to. Here goes my first contribution...

 

Fact: Las Vegas, Nevada, is the only major city in North America that's "defended" by an S-300 (SA-10) SAM battery

[macelena]

Fact: Las Vegas, Nevada, is the only major city in North America that's "defended" by an S-300 (SA-10) SAM battery

 

 

What ?

 

Ok, Cartagena, eastern Spain, is the only city defended by a regiment of NASAMS in the Mediterranean. Is it the

kind of useless factoid you mean´t? Put all my effort on it

 

EDIT: Yes I´m from there. What does it matter? I´ve got a good air defence

Edited November 20, 2008 by macelena

[+suhsjake]

The United States Army National Guard is the oldest branch in the US Military, est. 1636.

[+Dave]

A giraffe has an extremely long tongue.

[Fubar512]

What ?

 

[Syrinx]

Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee in his pants on the Moon.

[+Zurawski]

Blue whales have the largest penis of any living mammal, measuring 10 feet long and 1 foot in diameter...

 

... wait, was this meant to only pertain to military factoids?

 

"never-mind"

[Fubar512]

Blue whales have the largest penis of any living mammal, measuring 10 feet long and 1 foot in diameter...

 

... wait, was this meant to only pertain to military factoids?

 

"never-mind"

 

 

But relative to its size, the lowly barnacle has the largest penis in the entire animal kingdom.....or so says Hugh Laurie, as Dr. Greg House

[macelena]

lowly barnacle

 

 

Good, i found my new callsign

[JediMaster]

The female star of the maligned film 10,000 BC that came out earlier this year was the little girl attacked by tiny dinosaurs at the start of The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

[Syrinx]

The latin name of these tiny dinosaurs was Compsognathus longipes.

[Fubar512]

Male sharks have....errrrrr...TWO penises!

[+Dave]

The toilet on a ship is called a head.

[+SkippyBing]

The Latin name of the American Buffalo is Bison Bison.

 

Clue's in the name people, clue's in the name.

[Fubar512]

The Latin name of the American Buffalo is Bison Bison.

 

Clue's in the name people, clue's in the name.

 

Prarie Oysters?

[Gr.Viper]

Tsar Bell never rang. Tsar Cannon never fired a shot. Tsar Bomba was only tested once and at half-power.

[Caesar]

Your typical two-hand sword (commonly referred to as Zweihander) weighed between 3 and 5 pounds.

[+starfighter2]

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it

starves to death.

(Creepy.)

[+starfighter2]

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

[+Zurawski]

Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.

 

A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.

 

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

 

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

 

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

 

(Anyone see a pattern developing re: Kentucky?)

 

More...

 

When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole".

 

The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.

 

Pokemon stands for "pocket monster."

 

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof'.

Edited November 20, 2008 by Zurawski

[+starfighter2]

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

EDIT> Ok - enough posting here for next 3 days :yes:

Edited November 20, 2008 by starfighter2

[Fubar512]

The actual origin of the term "port" is speculated to be because the left side of old merchant sailing ships had a loading or entry port. The right side had a steering board that hung over the side of the ship (before the invention of rudders) which is where the term starboard comes from. So if the steering board hung over the right side, the boat would need to dock on its left side, or put into port on its left side.

[thundercheif]

Jimmy Carter was the first US president who was born in a hospital.

[+SkippyBing]

The original term for the Port side of the ship was Larboard. This may have caused some confusion.

[Fubar512]

The original term for the Port side of the ship was Larboard. This may have caused some confusion.

 

Yes, that's true, and you'll often read of (or hear) that term used in novels, and older films that were striving for accuracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_(nautical)