Useless Talents/Facts

Useless fact: I have been to a total of 7 (or more) places out of state.

Useless fact: Abraham Lincoln grew a beard after a girl told him that her father would vote for him if he had a beard.

Where did you learn that?

The Abraham Lincoln home in Springfield, Illinois. You’ve got to check it out if you’re in the area.

I’ll be sure to do that (if i do go there!)

4356’s square root is:

Root: 66

Terrible. XD

You used a calculator for that one did you? :confused:

No, i memorized it years ago because i wanted to know how to get “Route 66” on a calculator. Useless if you ask me. :laughing: Or if i ask myself. lol

Oh! I see. Route sounds just like Root, the mathematical term. That’s pretty good!

In the first century AD, Roman doctors endorsed the brushing of teeth with urine. Heck, some doctors even advised in drinking it.

Disgusting, but it’s not poisonous so you’re fine.

Urine is a great way to clean your clothes of almost everything; except urine.

:open_mouth:

[jar drops]

oh that is gross…

well It’s true

unfortunitely…for my stomach (full of breakfast) it is

SInce that was so much fun for Al-Bob’s stomach, here’s some more useless facts! :laughing:

Criminals in medeival France would often be punished by chasing a chicken through the streets of the city naked.

Lost mountain hikers often survive by drinking their own waste.

My aunt grew a tooth under her tongue! They had to…pull it out!


Freaky, eh? :sunglasses: and if i’m sorta responsible for that mess that’s now on the carpet, sorry.

Random Fact #445: nobidy cares about the north of England,

I wouldn’t consider this talent useless, but I can play by my ears. Meaning I can figure out how to play a certain Disney song (and some others) on the piano by myself, purely just by listening to it. No music sheet, believe it or not. After I quit taking piano lessons, it gave me more time for “freeplay” on the piano than playing songs I don’t even like, which led me to realizing I had this talent. I don’t want to brag, but I can play the basic melody of A Whole New World, Part of Your World, Under the Sea, I Won’t Say I’m in Love, The Siamese Cat Song, That’s How You Know, and some others, too. I’m still practicing on the background music, though.

Get a load of these handful of weird, but true facts

-Sea cucumbers escape predators by squirting their guts out and swimming away. The predator eats the guts, and the sea cucumber grows replacements.

-After giraffes chew and swallow their food, the food travels all the way up the long neck to be chewed a second time.

-A cockroach can survive up to a week with its head off.

-A blue whale feeds on about 40 million krill a day to satisfy its hunger.

-Polar bears are actually not white- their fur is transparent, and all of them together create an optical illusion of the color white.

-It used to be believed that goldfish only have a 3-second memory span. Why? Because people used to think that they were so small the brain couldn’t possibly hold much memory. However, this has been disproven, and goldfish actually turned out to be smarter than thought. One goldfish had actually been trained to tell the difference between classical and blues music!

-Some ants actually keep herds of aphids, just like farmers keep herds of cattle. They keep watch over them and “milk” a clear liquid out of them for the ants to eat.

-Rats can eat just about anything, but they cannot puke.

-If you took all the insects on Earth and weighed them, then took all the other creatures (including people) of the world and weighed them, the insects altogether would weigh more.

-A female dolphin is called a cow. A male dolphin is called a bull. A baby dolphin is called a calf.

-One South American lizard can run across the surface of water (like Dash from TI, hehe)

-Vampires are real! (dun-dun-dun!) But they’re just bats. Vampire bats need to drink half its weight in blood every day (or should I say night?).

-A fully grown hippopotomus can bite a crocodile in half.

-Bees communicate by dancing.

-People report the most UFO sightings when Venus is closest to Earth (coincidence?)

-Comparing our Solar System to the rest of the Milky Way is similar to comparing a quarter to the state of Texas.

MOst of of these facts you posted, I know already, but there were some on the list that really intrigued me. Where did you get these facts huh? Just currious.

I got them from magazines and books. But they can be found on the internet as well.

Here are some more fun facts! :slight_smile:

-Naming the ninth planet (though it’s not considered a planet anymore) Pluto was a suggestion from a kid.

-The Supreme Court once ruled over the differences between fruits and vegetables.

-Seaweed can be used to thicken ice cream.

-Frogs breathe through their lungs on land and through their skin underwater.

-People who have eaten ants say they taste like vinegar and chips.

-Women digest most of the lipstick they apply.

-The fear of long words is hippopotomonstrosesquippediliophobia.

-There is a tree that actually moves by itself to find a spot for just enough sunlight. It’s found in the amazon, if I remember correctly (don’t remember the name,though).