CM's completely useless factoid thread.

[ChristopherMaxwell]

Here is the place for your most completely useless and pointless trivia....


....such as....the name of the highest court in Italy: the Court of Cassation. Well, actually might come in handy, if you get in legal trouble while in Italy.

 

[starrkers]

The capital of Paraguay is Asuncion.

 

[Guest]

Cheese is often found where you least expect it.

 

[slyc_willie]

Oh, I'm gonna love this thread, I just know it . . .

America was named for one Amerigo Vespucci . . . .

Can you imagine if this continent had been called Vespuccia?

"Those damn Vespuccians."

"The good old US of V."

"God bless Vespuccia."

 

[yevkassem72]

Benito Mussolini was named after Benito Juarez, the Mexican President and full-blooded native Mexican. He was so named because his father was an anarchist that went around smashing ballot boxes on election day.

Oh, and his mother was a scullery maid and a devout Roman Catholic, while her husband was an atheist and a blacksmith.

 

[slyc_willie]

The majority of ancient calendars dissect the solar year into 13 months, not twelve, based upon the waxing/waning of the Moon. This leaves only a single 'Holy Day' left at the end of the year.

September, October, November, December are all leftovers from this calendar, when they were the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months of the Roman year.

So why is the modern Gregorian calendar better?

 

[cantdog]

Unfortunately, I know why the Gregorian calendar is better.

 

[slyc_willie]

Unfortunately, I know why the Gregorian calendar is better.

Yeh . . . so do I . . . I just prefer the simplicty of the older reckoning.

Damn that one extra day! Lol

 

[Sherry Hawk]

The French Quarter in New Orleans is actually built on top of bales of cotton. As the cotton has compressed, that section of the city has sunk, and continues to sink.

 

[FatDino]

Buddha was actually a prince. He starved himself to death to understand his people's lives.


No offense, but I think that was pretty silly.

 

[yevkassem72]

Yeh . . . so do I . . . I just prefer the simplicty of the older reckoning.

Damn that one extra day! Lol

When it was instituted in England, the people rioted, demanding, "Give us back our eleven days!"

 

[rgraham666]

There is a species of termite that defends their nests by blowing themselves up.

 

[Vermilion]

Said George the III with a smile, there's 1760 yards in a mile...

1760 also being the date of his coronation I believe.
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[Equinoxe]

Buddha was actually a prince. He starved himself to death to understand his people's lives.


No offense, but I think that was pretty silly.

That's not quite true. He was a prince (of the Shakya) and he did leave the palace and undergo hardship to understand life, but Gautama Siddhartha didn't starve himself to death: he died at the age of 80, in fact, probably as a result of the last thing he ate (although, the Tipitaka suggests that he decided that it was time to die).

 

[R. Richard]

Benito Mussolini was named after Benito Juarez, the Mexican President and full-blooded native Mexican. He was so named because his father was an anarchist that went around smashing ballot boxes on election day.

Oh, and his mother was a scullery maid and a devout Roman Catholic, while her husband was an atheist and a blacksmith.

Yeah, but he made the trains run on time!

 

[Vermilion]

Yeah, but he made the trains run on time!

They still do. Fantastic train service in Italy, compared to the UK (not that that's saying much, mind) - can get a wee bit busy though.

The Fiance nhas just claimed, when asked for a useless fact, that if you rolled out his willy to its full length it would extend around the world three times.
No comment.

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[oggbashan]

Indecent bathers

It is illegal to swim on my local beach without wearing a "university" swimming costume i.e one with at least three inches of sleeve and leg covering, and for women, a skirt over the three inches of leg covering.

Mixed bathing is not allowed after 7 am.

The last prosecution for breaking this local law was in 1914.

Og

 

[rgraham666]

Hey ogg. Did they ever get that guy down from the Cliffs of Dover? You know, the one who was supposed to ring a bell if he saw Napoleon's fleet coming?

 

[ChristopherMaxwell]

It is illegal to hunt at all in Kenya.

 

[scriptordelecto]

Minimum wage was first established in 1938 at a rate of 25 cents per hour.

 

[FatDino]

Male lions sleep over 18 hours a day. They don't participate in hunts but always get the first bites when food is brought back.

 

[Vermilion]

Male lions sleep over 18 hours a day. They don't participate in hunts but always get the first bites when food is brought back.

so much like the modern male homo sapiens and supermarket shopping then...

It's still illegal for London cabbies to drive w/o a bale of hay for the horse.

 

[scriptordelecto]

One of my favorites....where I currently reside, Missionary is the only legal sexual position.

I've always wondered how they'd regulate that.

 

[ChristopherMaxwell]

One of my favorites....where I currently reside, Missionary is the only legal sexual position.

I've always wondered how they'd regulate that.

Peeping Toms?

 

[FatDino]

so much like the modern male homo sapiens and supermarket shopping then...

LMAO...

Male lions place second or third in top ten laziest animals on Earth by Discovery Channel. Homo sapiens are supposed to be far superior than other animals so just how higher modern male homo sapiens would place in that list