The "Useless Information" Thread

[twerppoet]

I had ZWAQ on a triple word score once. Unfortunately it was challenged.

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You should have told them them the consonants were silent.

 

[The OB]

I had ZWAQ on a triple word score once. Unfortunately it was challenged.

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The highest scoring word in Scrabble is said to be "oxyphenbutazone" (a drug used to treat arthritis)
EDIT: forgot to add, you get 1178 for that

 

[Roy Rob]

In 1920 for the first time in recorded history, the average life expectancy of human beings exceeded that of goldfish. Before that year, a newborn infant could expect to live 48.4 years. For many species of wild goldfish, the projected life span was over 50.

 

[Gabriel1]

Can you stand some more numbers? If you could fold a piece of paper 51 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the sun.
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I can't disprove your reasoning but in order to fold a piece of paper 51 times the area of the paper to start with would have be larger than the surface of our planet.

Hmm, I'm out on a limb here but I seem to recall that it's impossible to fold a piece of paper in half, then in half again, etc, etc.....more than nine times.

Go on, try it, you know that you want to!

The Archangel

 

[Gabriel1]

Hmm, I'm out on a limb here but I seem to recall that it's impossible to fold a piece of paper in half, then in half again, etc, etc.....more than nine times.

Go on, try it, you know that you want to!

The Archangel

Oh my, I thought I was at the end of the thread when I posted that only to realise it had been discussed to death!

I'm off to hang my head in shame!

The Archangel

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Oh my, I thought I was at the end of the thread when I posted that only to realise it had been discussed to death!

I'm off to hang my head in shame!

The Archangel

Into the alligator filled moat with you!

AA

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[Gabriel1]

Into the alligator filled moat with you!

AA

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Hmm, I was only planning on standing in the naughty corner!

The Archangel

 

[KevinJS]

Into the alligator filled moat with you!

AA

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Hmm, I was only planning on standing in the naughty corner!

The Archangel

I think your punishment should be limited to entertaining us with a bit of useless information.

Here's a bit of geographical trivia. The only bit of Africa that is now owned by a European country is the peninsula of Ceuta, which borders Morocco. Ceuta is politically a part of Spain.

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[Gabriel1]

I think your punishment should be limited to entertaining us with a bit of useless information.

I'll take that....does this count.....

I once lived in a 14th century house that has at various points in it's history been used as a bakery, a recording studio (the only band that I know for sure that used it is the Rolling Stones) and an adult movie studio!!

The Archangel

 

[Roy Rob]

In the marriage ceremony of the Ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

I wonder if they can divorce by giving them back?

 

[twerppoet]

In the marriage ceremony of the Ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

I wonder if they can divorce by giving them back?

Probably not. I'm guessing a divorce involved giving them the boot instead.

 

[Roy Rob]

Probably not. I'm guessing a divorce involved giving them the boot instead.

LOL Probably so(le)

 

[Roy Rob]

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

 

[LannyC]

The heart rate of a blue-throated hummingbird was measured at 1,260 beats per minute while it was hovering.

milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

 

[Roy Rob]

Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.