Totally useless information/trivia
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Topic: Totally useless information/trivia
Posted By: flipper
Subject: Totally useless information/trivia
Date Posted: 02 July 2011 at 12:18pm
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Title explains it really, what random information do you know that is totally useless, you don't really know why you know it, its not even interesting really, but you know it and have kept it in there for some reason. Falling coconuts kill more people than sharks do.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. ------------- Warwickshire County Cricket, Edgbaston Birmingham England. County Champions 2012 |
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Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 02 July 2011 at 2:20pm
| My dad has been smoking for 55 years and still runs 3 miles daily |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 04 July 2011 at 6:45am
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Some species of shark are cannibals before being born ! Yep , in the womb the unborn young eat their siblings so more often than not , just one makes it into the world. Interestingly , at birth the mother releases a hormone that takes her apetite away so that she doesn't eat her own offspring!
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Posted By: vote4peace
Date Posted: 04 July 2011 at 7:30am
I can see why you have the picture of a shark on your avatar. Seem to know an awful lot about them. ------------- I distrust a camel.. and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. 
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Posted By: kirankri
Date Posted: 04 July 2011 at 9:33am
When viewed from top or bottom?
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Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 05 July 2011 at 9:10am
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Good question Kiran ! Uranus actually rotates at 99 degrees , so is spinning on it's side - weird huh ! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: flipper
Date Posted: 07 July 2011 at 5:34pm
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As a child, Stephen King would read the obituaries in the papers and cross the names out of his local phone directory. ------------- Warwickshire County Cricket, Edgbaston Birmingham England. County Champions 2012 |
Posted By: flipper
Date Posted: 07 July 2011 at 5:44pm
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The shortest war in history was between You can not die in Parliament! If you die in Parliament it has to say on your death certificate that you died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. ------------- Warwickshire County Cricket, Edgbaston Birmingham England. County Champions 2012 |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 6:45am
Only marginally faster than the French capitulation to the Germans in 1940 then !! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: flipper
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 9:17am
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