Useless facts

[no1tovote4]

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm

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http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usamhi...graphies/animals/Horses/equestrianstatues.doc

I hate to tell you this one... This one is a romantic urban myth... Two sources confirm that there is no actual relation to hooves and the type of death of a soldier...

Also added to the myth, if the soldier is standing beside the horse the horse died in the battle.

It is however a vocational standard, but all statues are not made specifically by those who are by vocation statue makers...

 

[no1tovote4]

The Camel Brigade really did happen....

The Army experimented with Camels as an alternative to horses in the 1800s...

 

[Joz]

Kermit is left-handed.

 

[Mr.Conley]

Kermit is left-handed.

 

[no1tovote4]

The "truism" that humans only use 10% of their minds is a myth...

Unfortunately we use most of our minds, which begs the question...

Is this all that there is?!

:scratch:

 

[KarlMarx]

The brightest star in the sky is Sirius in the constellation of Canis Major

The nearest star to our sun is Proxima Centauri at 4.2 light years (a light year is the distance light travels in a year, approximately 6 trillion miles)

Only 5 planets were known up until the 1700s, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The planet Pluto was not discovered until the 1930s

Mercury and Venus are the only two planets that do not have a moon

The largest planet is Jupiter. If hollowed out, it could contain 1,000 planets the size of Earth.

The only moon in the Solar System with an atmosphere is Titan, which orbits the planet Saturn

The four largest moons of Jupiter are known as "The Gallilean Moons" because Galileo Gallelei was the first to see them.

The planet planet with the most moons, 21, is Uranus.

The largest star in our galaxy that is known to us is the star Betelgeuse with an estimated radius of 650 Solar Radii (about 270 million miles).

The largest crater on our moon is Ptolemy, with a diameter of 153 kilometers (91 miles) and a depth of 2.4 Km (1.4 miles)

On another note....

The smelliest substance known is Ethanethiol. Humans can detect the smell of ethanethiol in concentrations as low as one part in 50 billion parts of air. Not surprisingly, this substance forms part of a skunk's musk.

The most poisonous substance know is Botulinum toxin. This substance is the main ingredient in Botox and in botulism.

 

[KarlMarx]

The "truism" that humans only use 10% of their minds is a myth...

Actually, College students on Spring Break are known to use much less than 10% of their brains (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less), as anyone who has seen the DVD "College Girls Gone Wild" can attest to.

 

[Abbey Normal]

During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

 

[Joz]

The movie on at the drive-in when the Flintstones come on is called, The Monster.

 

[no1tovote4]

During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

It's a VW Bug. I pointed it out to my mother the first time I saw it on TV...

 

[Mr.Conley]

Seoul, South Korea has the largest population of any city on the planet.

 

[Semper Fi]

Sitka, Alaska is the largest city on earth.

 

[Mr.Conley]

Sitka, Alaska is the largest city on earth.

Wasn't it Anchorage?

I'll check.

 

[Mr.Conley]

According to the site I found, Australia's Mount Isa as the largest city by area.

 

[Semper Fi]

According to the site I found, Australia's Mount Isa as the largest city by area.

Fine, Sitka's the largest in north America.

 

[Jimmyeatworld]

The Baltimore Colts won the first overtime championship game in NFL history.

The Cleveland Browns beat the New York Jets in the first Monday Night Football game.

Millard Fillmore was the last U.S. President not recognized as a Republican or Democrat (He was a Whig).

James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was missing part of a finger.

Ernie Kovacs was driving a Chevrolet Corvair when he died.

Gary Burghoff (Radar from MASH) had a deformed left hand. He also played drums in a jazz trio.

Cap Anson was the first major league baseball player to reach 3,000 hits.

The Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Philles played in the first night game in major league history.

The first batting helmet was used in 1941.

Winston Churchill's last words were, "I'm bored with it all."

Humphrey Bogart's last words were, "I never should have switched from Scotch to Martinis."

Gavin Rossdale didn't say his first word until he was 4 years old. (It was "cookie")

Benito Mussolini's favorite drink was a strawberry sherbet frappe.

Adolph Hitler was not a vegetarian, despite a long believed myth to the contrary. Stuffed squab was one of his favorite foods. He also liked Bavarian Sausage.

 

[no1tovote4]

Adolph Hitler was not a vegetarian, despite a long believed myth to the contrary. Stuffed squab was one of his favorite foods. He also liked Bavarian Sausage.

Adolph Hitler would say he was a vegetarian while eating sausage and squab... He would say things like, "My one weakness!"

He also said he didn't drink, but loved beer...

The man was a whole grip of contradiction. A short brown-haired brown-eyed guy who believed the perfect Aryan had blonde hair and blue eyes... Silly mustachioed he would not allow his elite corp to grow any facial hair...

So forth...

 

[Nienna]

Adolph Hitler would say he was a vegetarian while eating sausage and squab... He would say things like, "My one weakness!"

He also said he didn't drink, but loved beer...

The man was a whole grip of contradiction. A short brown-haired brown-eyed guy who believed the perfect Aryan had blonde hair and blue eyes... Silly mustachioed he would not allow his elite corp to grow any facial hair...

So forth...

That's the kind of thing that makes me wonder how people could have followed him... couldn't they see the contradictions?

 

[dilloduck]

That's the kind of thing that makes me wonder how people could have followed him... couldn't they see the contradictions?

Look how many Americans believe liberal "leaders". Not so different.

 

[CSM]

Very good.

You can, however, see the light from the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, because of it's blue light atop the pyramid that shines straight up.

Doesn't that mean you have to be looking straight (or nearly so) to see it from "near" space or be light years away and wait for a very long time!