Topic: Useless but Interesting Facts

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

@MattEriks

...holy crap.

Ummm... Yes, you can. There's even an episode of MythBusters where Adam sneezes with his eyes open. They busted the myth that your eyeballs will be ejected from their sockets, if you sneeze with your eyes open.

In martial arts the belief that belts were originally never cleaned and gradually changed colour over many years until they turned black is a just a myth.

Anyone who's played 999 should already know that >: (

Uwe Boll makes horrible video game movies.

Toni Basil who sang the 80s one hit wonder 'Mickey' renamed the song to 'Mickey' from the original 'Kitty' to make it about a guy, Mickey was chosen as Toni in her younger years had a crush on Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees whom she met when she was a choreographer on The Monkees 1968 movie HEAD in which she can be seen dancing with Davy Jones of The Monkees in a scene in which Davy sings and dances to the song Daddys Song

i`ve had my wii for 5 years, in that time i`ve saved various messages from friends and wii sports (& resort) achievements.
this morning i turned on my wii, it decided that the message board data was full, and promtly decided to move all of the messages to my sd card, and delete them from the wii`s internal memory.
this supprised me as i`ve never heared of the wii being capable of doing this until it decided to to that till today.

Plenty of them here: http://didyouknowgaming.com/

Barack Obama technically is the 43rd US president as opposed to being the 44th like the official numbering states. This is because Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected twice, like many presidents, but not in two consecutive terms. His first term lasted from 1885 to 1889 but he was then defeated by Republican Benjamin Harrison during a reelection bid. He ran a third time successfully, however, making him president once more from 1893 to 1897 and the first and so far only person to serve two non-consecutive terms as president. As a result, he is counted as both the 22nd and 24th president. So while Obama is officially the 44th president of the United States, really only 43 people actually took office.

@Shane_Gill
I thought I wad the only one that knew about that site. Great Website!

-Johnny Depp lost his virginity at the age of 13.

Tarzan hasn't appeared in a Kingdom Hearts game since the original,because of some license problems.

If your parents didn't have children, studies show, neither will you.
That was lame.
I forgot a really good one, I'll post here later...

from this article:

Despite the introduction of electricity, running water, and "labor-saving" household appliances, time spent on housework did not decline. Indeed, the typical full-time housewife today spends just as much time on housework as her grandmother or great-grandmother. In 1924, a typical housewife spent about 52 hours a week in housework. Half a century later, the average full-time housewife devoted 55 hours to housework. A housewife today spends less time cooking and cleaning up after meals, but she spends just as much time as her ancestors on housecleaning and even more time on shopping, household management, laundry, and childcare.

Harley Quinn of Batman Universe was only suppose to be a one time character on Batman the Animated Series. Originally the episode Joker's Favor the Joker was suppose to jump out of a birthday cake. Paul Dini thought it would be to bizarre having the Joker jump out of the cake for a room full of men (even though they ended up having Joker jump out of the cake) so he created Harley Quinn to do it. Her voice actress Arleen Sorkin is good friends with Dini so he modeled Harley after her from one time on the Soap Opera Days of Our Lives which Arleen's character wore a jesters costume. Because of the response the animators got from fans from her first appearance they decided to make here a staple on BtAS and eventually she became a staple of the Batman/DC Universe.

James Avery (Uncle Phil on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air) was the voice of The Shredder in the Original TMNT cartoon series.

I KNEW IT!!!

Swedens entry to Eurovision Song Contest 2001 (Listen to your heartbeat) is the theme to an 2003 anime called Di Gi Charat Nyo! albeit that version is in japanese

Mankind hasn't yet found a way to grant you access to money you won in your dreams.

Now that explains everything.

i wouldn`t even be sitting here typing this out if my parents had no children, so that study is flawed.
i wonder who commissioned and carried out the study to get to that conclusion, and how much time, money, and effort was spent on it.
tbh, i would like to read the report, and see if there other factors on the study, based on whether these parents have a single child, or if they`ve adopted children, maybe there`s another reason for them to have gotten to their outcome.

in the original arcade release of street fighter 2, ken and ryu`s hadouken move would, on ocassion, send out a random orange fireball instead of the inteded blue one
after numerous tests, the programers at capcom found that the code didn`t cause any faults what so ever with the rest of the game. so, rather than fixing the code, they left it in as an easter egg suprise.