Useless facts

[Joz]

The raised reflective dot on a highway are called Botts dots.
There are 123,000,000 cars being driven on highways in the U.S.
Ninety percent of NYC cabdrivers are recently arrived immigrants.
The orange vest that highway workers ( & crossing guards) wear are called Retro-reflective or International orange.

Interstate numbers:
Odd numbers run north & south
Even numbers, east & west
Three digit numbers beginning with an even number are beltways
Three beginning with odd numbers are bypasses or spurs.

 

[Jimmyeatworld]

New Yorker Harry N. Allen was the first person to import petrol powered taxis to the United States. Allen is also the first to coin the term "taxicab" and the first to paint his cabs yellow.

Taxis of Hong Kong have three colors based on service area. Taxis working urban areas are red, New Territories taxis are green, and taxis on Lantau Island are blue.

Tony Danza is driving the taxi across the bridge during the opening credits of the TV show "Taxi".

 

[KarlMarx]

the most abundent element in the universe is Hydrogen

 

[deaddude]

Until the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China, the Great Wall of China was the only man made object visible from the moon

This is false the great wall of china is not visible from the moon.

http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwal.htm

 

[Jimmyeatworld]

The Great Wall of China is about 4,000 miles long.

In China tree hugging is forbidden.

China has only about 200 different family names.

 

[KarlMarx]

The Great Wall of China is about 4,000 miles long.

In China tree hugging is forbidden.

China has only about 200 different family names.

Chinese family names are usually, if not always, monosyllabic (one syllable)

 

[fuzzykitten99]

In China tree hugging is forbidden.

Sorry, Greenpeace!!

 

[Joz]

Jedi is an official religion with over 70,000 followers in Austrailia.

 

[no1tovote4]

Jedi is an official religion with over 70,000 followers in Austrailia.

I wonder what they use in place of Mitichlorians....

 

[Nienna]

At any given time, one-third of your hair follicles are turned "off." These hairs, then fall out. So at any given time you are losing one-third of your hair.

 

[KarlMarx]

Crucifixion (i.e., the form of execution by which Christ died) was not begun by the Romans (although they probably perfected it!), the first recorded crucifixion was by order of the Persian king, Darius I, in 519 BC.

 

[KarlMarx]

The longest military campaign of World War II was "The second battle of the Atlantic" which ran almost the entire length of the war - September 3, 1939 to May 7, 1945.

 

[Joz]

Turtles can breathe through their butts.
A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
A starfish has no brain. (so can they feel?)

 

[Jimmyeatworld]

The Swastika is a very old sacred symbol from near-prehistoric times and referred to in Germany as the Hakenkreuz. Traditionally a sign of good fortune and well-being, it is well-known in Hindu and Buddhist cultures and was used by the Aryan nomads of India.

 

[fuzzykitten99]

At any given time, one-third of your hair follicles are turned "off." These hairs, then fall out. So at any given time you are losing one-third of your hair.

tell that to Tim...he's a fur bearing mammal!

 

[Adam's Apple]

The world’s largest dam, currently being built in China, will be more than one mile wide and 600 feet high when it becomes operational in 2009. The reservoir created by this dam will be approximately the size of the state of Arizona. Unbelievable but true--the site of this massive dam is built over a seismic fault.

 

[KarlMarx]

The company name Lego comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well". Officially, the name is always spelled in capital letters, i.e. LEGO

 

[KarlMarx]

Mel Blanc, aka "The Man of a thousand voices", did most of the voices of the Looney Toons characters. In addition, he provided the voices of Barney Rubble, Secret Squirrel, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman and the voice of the raven in the TV series "The Munsters".

Contrary to his popular cartoon character Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc hated to eat raw carrots, because he was allergic to them. He would spit them into a wastebasket immediately after recording the line, then continue with the script.

It should be noted that Mel Blanc told fans of the cartoon characters that he didn't voice them, he managed them. At first Mel Blanc said these things so the kids would still watch the show; he was afraid they wouldn't if they knew the cartoons weren't real. That set a trend that almost every actor who has voiced a cartoon character has followed.

Mel Blanc provided the voice of Private Snafu, a character created by Frank Capra (director of "It's a Wonderful Life") in a series of training films during WWII. The scripts of which were written, by none other than Theodore Geissel (aka Dr. Seuss)

 

[KarlMarx]

If you spent $1 million a day, it would take almost 22,000 years to spend the amount equal to the national debt (which is over $8 Trillion)

 

[Joz]

If you spent $1 million a day,........

Let me have a shot at it.

The company name Lego comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well". Officially, the name is always spelled in capital letters, i.e. LEGO

Since 1949, the LEGO company, based in Denmark, has produced more than 200,000,000,000 of the plastic elements that make up the Lego System.
There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the 8-studed bricks of one color.