Useless Facts about anything

[calvan]

Thank you for the enlightenment.

[pete]

PREMATURE TREEJACULATION

the act of erecting one's festive decor in any month other than december

[Dave Eds]

34 minutes ago, pete said:

PREMATURE TREEJACULATION

the act of erecting one's festive decor in any month other than december

?

Come again?

[Bibs]

Happy Palindrome Day, apparently. Being 02 02 2020 or if you’re American also 02 02 2020 and if you’re computerish 2020 02 02 this is the first time since 11 11 1111 that the date has been a palindrome no matter which format you use. So long as it’s not 2 2 20 or 2 February 2020 I suppose. The next is 12 12 2121 and we’ll all be dead by then! It is also a palindrome day of the year (33) with a palindrome number of days left in the year (333). This will never happen again!

[USAndretti42]

Won't the palindrome day thing happen again every leap year on the 2nd of February?

[USAndretti42]

The last World Championship F1 race won by a car that wasn't a Red Bull, Ferrari or Mercedes-Benz was the 2013 Australian GP which was won by Kimi ("Don't talk to me.  I know what I'm doing.") Raikkonen in the Lotus F1 entry.

Team Lotus won the constructors' championship 7 times.  Mercedes-Benz has won it only 6 times as of the end of 2019.

[Kimbers]

In his book, Plain Facts for Old and Young: Embracing the Natural History and Hygiene of Organic Life, John Harvey Kellogg listed some of the damaging symptoms of masturbating, including mood swings, bad posture, acne, epilepsy, palpitations and a fondness for spicy food. He was a Seventh-day Adventist and worked as a physician who staunchly believed in celibacy and that sex was unhealthy and immoral.  Mr Kellogg was such a firm believer that sex was damaging to the mind and body that he slept in a separate room from his wife and never consummated the marriage, choosing instead to adopt all their children.

But Mr Kellogg had a solution to all this suffering, believing that meat and rich flavoured foods increased sexual desire, while plain foods like nuts and cereals suppressed it.

With this in mind he set about making a range of plain tasting breakfast foods that would once and for all put a stop to these impure desires, which resulted in the cereal we know and love today — Corn Flakes.

So if you have ever noticed that your thoughts are particularly wholesome while having your morning cereal, then you have Mr Kellogg to thank.

[andydclements]

12 hours ago, USAndretti42 said:

Won't the palindrome day thing happen again every leap year on the 2nd of February?

the next leap year would be 2026, so that's 02 02 2026 which isn't a palindrome.

[Bibs]

 

[RobinB5]

1 hour ago, Bibs said:

 

More info on this fascinating subject : https://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-are-weirded-out-to-discover-that-some-people-dont-have-an-internal-monologue/

Personally I flit between both states (though never as Captain Picard :)) 

[USAndretti42]

12 hours ago, andydclements said:

the next leap year would be 2026, so that's 02 02 2026 which isn't a palindrome.

I meant the 33rd day of the year with 333 left to go.

[Bibs]

Dogs pretty much only poop aligned either directly North or South. 

[Chillidoggy]

42 minutes ago, Bibs said:

Dogs pretty much only poop aligned either directly North or South. 

But what happens if they’ve got the squitters? N, S, E & W?

[comem47]

2 hours ago, Bibs said:

Dogs pretty much only poop aligned either directly North or South. 

Yup, I tell my wife the prolonged dance they do first is "geo-positioning" so they can perform the perfect poop. It's gotta be "just right" 😉

[USAndretti42]

Also, they don't poop when aligned East-West to the magnetic North.  How bizarre.

[mayevora]

The Actor who played the voice of Dick Dastardly also invented the heart pace maker.

[Bazza 907]

Wacky Pacemakers

[Escape]

On 29/02/2020 at 17:05, Bibs said:

Dogs pretty much only poop aligned either directly North or South. 

Ours only poops with his rear pointing upwards, usually against a tree or something and preferably with a few twigs or grass rubbing his privates...

Never paid attention to the alignment, but I will now!

[Chillidoggy]

I went for a walk yesterday morning, saw a dog crapping. It was definitely facing north east.

[Sparky]

How does one calibrate a canine?

[RobinB5]

Carefully.

[Chillidoggy]

Vernier collar.

[RobinB5]

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

[RobinB5]

The phrase: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.” Contains 9 different pronunciations of “ough.”

[tim_marra]

11 hours ago, RobinB5 said:

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

Do the post coital cream cakes count then?