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Uselss But Possibly Fun Facts

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Uselss But Possibly Fun Facts


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Nice and simple.
 
Post any facts that you may find useless and possibly enjoyable to some sad sack somewhere out there


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Before football referees started using whistles in 1878, they used to rely on waving a handkerchief.
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so lets get started.

of the 4175 forum membrs on YF, 2744 have not ever made a post



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Fark, what's the point?

Three for me, and two for them.

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I got a useless fact.

Love means nothing to a tennis player.

Three for me, and two for them.

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well depends wat are you referring to?
 
my point about members not posting or about the topic?
 
if the former-its just a lot of people that havnt posted
 
if the latter-just somewhere for supposedly useless facts that others may find interesting (or may not)
 
 


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It's the former. Why sign up if you're never going post anything whatsoever? And i've seen some of them and they haven't even been here since April or May last year!!!

Three for me, and two for them.

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i know its a complete waste. though saying that my old username had been unused for 3 or so months without being used.
 
anyway: in america more people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
 
oh and my internet is playin up (both a useless fact and a reason for my slow replies)


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In 1943 the following quote was made by Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM: 
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
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Whaling is illegal in Oklahoma.
 
**if you dont get it check a map of the US**


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Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg

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Cat urine glows under a black-light!

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in queensland, australia it is still constitutional law that all pubs must have a railing outside for patrons to tie there horses to


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it is illegal in alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church


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it is legal for women in saudi arabia to divorce their husbands if they do not keep them supplied with coffee


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A scientist once did a study on the first case of homosexual necrophillia in ducks.
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67% of facts are incorrect

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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And 88% of those facts are just made up in the first place.
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Juventus  play in black and white striped shirts to this day in respect of  Notts County.  Juventus played in pink shirts with polkadots until John Savage sorted them out with black and white striped shirts from Notts County in 1903.
 
 

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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40% of McDonald's profits come from the sale of Happy Meals

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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The electric chair was invented by a dentist

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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In Newcastle, Australia, it is legal to punch linesmen in the crotch
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the bible is the #1 shoplifted book in the states


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in michigan its illegal to place a skunk in your bosses desk


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Not everything tastes like chicken. Toenails do not.
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The world's smallest car is 4nm long
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Deer do not eat hay


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If you take the reciprocal of the square root of the product of permittivity of free space and the permeability of free space, you get the speed of light.

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Milk comes from cows
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The largest known prime number is 9,808,358 digits longyomcat2008-01-24 08:40:20
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reportedly the saab 900 turbo has a faster 60-100mph time than the porshe 911 turbo


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2+2=5 (for sufficiently large values of 2)

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Jag wrote:
Juventus  play in black and white striped shirts to this day in respect of  Notts County.  Juventus played in pink shirts with polkadots until John Savage sorted them out with black and white striped shirts from Notts County in 1903.
 
 
 
you wouldn't happen to have an image of that shirt would you? I have a mate who's a juve fan I'd like to remind about that faux pas!

Queenslander 3x a year.

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square pi and get around about g
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It is illegal to wear a suit of armour in the house of commons
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