The thread of pointless facts

The thread of pointless facts

I'll start

It takes 22 pounds of chocloate to kill a human being

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Snooker was invented in india

It is unlawful to lend your vacumn cleaner to your next door neighbour in Denver-Colorado

Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas"

"Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars

In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field

In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet

In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark

The words "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatossilphioparaomelitoatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolatoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", "Taumatawhakatangihangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapiikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and "Nordosterjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningmaerielunderhallsuppfoljknintssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" are all in the spell checker, but not in any dictionary, yet the words ""Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and "Floccipaucinihilipilification" are in the English Dictionary, but not in the spell checker!

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

*Edit*

I was hoping somebody wouldnt just paste the whole first page of the first site that appears when you google for "pointless facts"

Sorry!

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

Re: The thread of pointless facts

i used to think penguins were actually 6 feet tall, human size

for every grain of sand on the earth, there are a million stars

thats probably my favourite fact of them all

who counted all the sand ? and who counted all the stars ?

Thats a good fact actually!

me

if you didvide the length of your arm from fingertip to shoulder by its length from elbow to shoulder you get the same number (the divine number) as you would get if you divided the length of your leg from toe to hip by hip to kneecap .

the entire body is made up of divisions of one number !

even for midgets?

even for those who are vertically challenged yes ! or *cough* those woth larger or smaller equipment

someone with a lot of time on their hands maybe?

85% of life on earth is plankton

Aww thats lovely!!

thats the one fact i love to bore people with!

One fifth of the worlds population is chinese.

People in Holland must look under their cars and sound the horn before reversing out of their driveways!!

turtle rhymes with purple