The Useless but Interesting fact thread

[ARYANTO]

According to Guinness World Records, the first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz—but since the speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today's standards. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s and earning Arnold the speedy distinction

 

[ARYANTO]

Pineapple works as a natural meat tenderizer.

The fruit is packed with the enzyme bromelain, which breaks down protein chains, making it an ideal marinade for meats when you don't have a lot of time.

 

[ARYANTO]

Hottest spot ever recorded on Earth is El Azizia, in Libya, where a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded on Sept. 13, 1922. While hotter spots have likely occurred in other parts of the planet at other times, this is the most scorching temperature ever formally recorded by a weather station.

 

[ARYANTO]

Despite what you may have seen on other lists of random trivia, your fingernails and hair ,do not continue to grow after you die . To grow, these must have a steady supply of glucose, which is cut off after the heart stops beating, preventing any further growth.

 

[Stranger]

What if you are diabetic ?

 

[Stranger]

According to Guinness World Records, the first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz—but since the speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today's standards. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s and earning Arnold the speedy distinction

Pics or it never happened.

 

[ARYANTO]

It must have looked something like this...

 

[Stranger]

No man, I want to see what Mr Walter Arnold looked like .

I found the copper, his bike is in for service.

 

[Drikusw]

 

[zadiac]

Despite what you may have seen on other lists of random trivia, your fingernails and hair ,do not continue to grow after you die . To grow, these must have a steady supply of glucose, which is cut off after the heart stops beating, preventing any further growth.

It's the skin receding that makes it look like nails and hair is growing after death.

 

[ARYANTO]

No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.

 

[ARYANTO]

If you're trying to locate Rome on a map, you'd probably head right to the boot-shaped country of Italy. But Europe isn't the only continent that decided to use that particular name, or rather, the Italian version, "Roma." In fact, there's a Rome on every continent except Antarctica, according to National Geographic.
Rome in Italy is properly spelled "Roma," -(Europe)
Roma, Indonesia(Asia)

http://www.geonames.org/6403948/roma.html
Roma, Lesotho (Africa)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma,_Lesotho
Roma, Queensland (Australia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma,_Queensland
La Roma and Pto. Roma, Ecuador (South America)

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/EC/10/La_Roma.html

http://www.geonames.org/3652745/puerto-de-roma.html
Roma, Texas, USA, putting a "Roma" on each of the six inhabited continents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma,_Texas

 

[ARYANTO]

During World War II, then 18-year-old Princess Elizabeth was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, making her the only woman in the British royal family to have served in the armed forces and the only living head of state to serve in the Second World War.

Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, as she was called during her service, trained as a mechanic and military truck driver, according to Time. Interestingly, Her Majesty is also the only person in Britain who doesn't need a driver's license to get behind the wheel!

 

[ARYANTO]

"Schoolmaster" is an anagram of "the classroom."

 

[ARYANTO]

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love to sleep naked and those who could never drift off if they aren't wearing proper PJs. But according to a survey conducted in 2018 by MattressAdvisor.com, plenty of people prefer to head to bed in the buff. The poll found that 65 percent of millennials sleep in the nude.

 

[ARYANTO]

The Twitter bird has a name.

It's Larry, Supposedly, the blue bird was named after former NBA player Larry Bird, who used to play for Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's home-state team, the Boston Celtics.

 

[ARYANTO]

First, what we now know of as a mouse had the name: "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System," then it got the snappier moniker turtle, then rodent, and finally mouse.

 

[ARYANTO]

According to Kutztown University, a 999-sided polygon or enneahectaenneacontakaienneagon can be broken down into the Greek names for the numbers ennea (9), hecta (100), enneaconta (90), kai (and) ennea (9), with gon (side) on the end

https://bestlifeonline.com/

 

[ARYANTO]

Asia is the most densely populated continent, with 246 people per square mile.

 

[Stranger]

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

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You probably know your fair share of men who sport some sort of facial hair. But if you suffer from pogonophobia—the fear of beards—then you'd rather avoid them. And it turns out, this fear could be justified: A 2018 study published in the journal European Radiology suggests that beards contain "significantly higher" amounts of bacteria than dogs do.

You mingers.

 

[Grand Guru]

The first oranges weren’t orange
The original oranges from Southeast Asia were a tangerine-pomelo hybrid, and they were actually green. In fact, oranges in warmer regions like Vietnam and Thailand still stay green through maturity.

(And Carrots were white...)

 

[Grand Guru]

Peanuts aren’t technically nuts
They’re legumes. According to Merriam-Webster, a nut is only a nut if it’s “a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel.” That means walnuts, almonds, cashews, and pistachios aren’t nuts either. They’re seeds.

 

[Grand Guru]

There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive
Most of the volcanoes probably stopped one billion years ago, but NASA findings have suggested there might still have been active lava flow 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still roaming.

Imagine the view!!!

 

[Grand Guru]

You only have two body parts that never stop growing
Human noses and ears keep getting bigger, even when the rest of the body’s growth has come to a halt.

 

[Stranger]

There is a part of my body that has intermittent growth.