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Useless Knowledge!

In Natoma, Kansas it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of th human stomach.
Pain travels through your body at 350 feet per second.
The area code in Antarctica is 672.
The dot over a lowercase I is called a tittle.
The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.
Baby beavers are called kittens.
Phobatrivaphobia is the fear of trivia about phobias.
 
JoshYEAH said:
It's based on how influential a person is, which, given how the voter turnout was for that election (one of the highest in recorded history) would suggest that Obama certainly did make people sit up and pay more attention to the politics of their country, ergo he is indeed influential. If you want to complain about any awards Obama has received, make it the Nobel Peace Prize - Time magazine's influential person award though, has been a pretty good thing throughout its time. The only one where they dropped the ball was making it "you" if you ask me, but even that one still made sense.
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even then, josh. correct me if i'm wrong but it's supposed to be the most influential person throughout the world, yes? but obama primarily influenced the voters in america due to his orating skills. sure, everyone in other countries heard about him due to the american presidential elections being a fairly large event throughout the world due to our being a superpower, but he still didn't do.. well, anything to the other parts of the world. Yes, the Nobel Peace Prize is something to be much more frustrated about, and I probably should have brought that up in my previous post.
 
It got a lot of people to sit up and take notice of that superpower though, at least on a more political level. Before Obama the Bush administration allowed the whole idea of American politics to become a huge joke to the rest of the world.

Time is an American institution and even they aren't able to stay out of the trap that the world doesn't exist beyond American borders. They're not without their own problems and all, but the reality of the situation is that the influential person thing is a good concept, they just occassionally drop the ball on it.
 
Guess what?

There is a word that rhymes with PURPLE! It's CURPLE!

Curple is another word for butt.
 
zapto369 said:
Also, it's impossible to tickle yourself.
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Untrue, there is a spot on the roof of your mouth where most people can tickle themselves. If you just run your finger around for a while, you'll find it.

Lightning Raider said:
A teacher told me once that there are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver. The closest I got was purple/verbal but close doesn't cut it.
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I don't think they're in the dictionary any more, but on QI they said there were two words that rhymed with purple, I believe they were 'durple' and 'curple'.
 
Ceromax said:
Human skin burns around 130 F Degrees!
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Well, I wouldn't say that this is useless...






Lesse... it's illegal to eat in a restaurant that's on fire in Illinois.
Also, Arkansas has outlawed the mispronunciation of "Arkansas."
 
Shuam said:
even then, josh. correct me if i'm wrong but it's supposed to be the most influential person throughout the world, yes? but obama primarily influenced the voters in america due to his orating skills. sure, everyone in other countries heard about him due to the american presidential elections being a fairly large event throughout the world due to our being a superpower, but he still didn't do.. well, anything to the other parts of the world. Yes, the Nobel Peace Prize is something to be much more frustrated about, and I probably should have brought that up in my previous post.
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Despite how much we as Americans may feel about him now I know he made us look better to the world at large.
 
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is, ironically, the fear of long words.
 
In Connecticut, it is illegal to pirouette (twirl) while crossing the street.

Jedi is an official religion in Australia.
 
There are 306-309 bones in the human body.
A giraffe has the same amount of bones in its neck that we do.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
Half your blood cells are replaced every week.
Dinosaurs were the best headbutters in the world. (Proven fact, look it up)
 
When the Titanic sank, many of the passengers didn't flee to safety because they were too distracted by the movie being shown in the dining hall. That movie was the original version of "The Poseidon Adventure".
 
People say it's impossible to lick your elbow, but I can..

If the Earth were the size of a quarter, the sun would be the size of a 9-foot ball and a football field(100 yds) away. If the entire solar system were the size of a quarter, the nearest star would be 300 feet away, and the sun would be only visible under a microscope. If our galaxy were the size of a quarter, the nearest galaxies would be anywhere from 1 - 1,000 ft away.
 
In PA it is illegal to beat your wife with anything wider then your wrist (I believe)
In Tulsa, OK it is illegal to open a bottle of soda without a licensed engineer with you
A Russian doctor performed an appendectomy on himself in Antarctica.
Supposedly, there was a live pterodactyls found in Spain in the 1800s.
The dot on the letter 'i' is called a tittle, so don't forget to tittle-ate your i's.
 
Every 3 minutes, there is a report of a UFO sighting

There are only 14 blimps in the world.

Only newborn babies can swallow while breathing

80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb

Although they won't admit it, women fart as much as men.

Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second

More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight

Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite

1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper

In Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
 
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