Useless information

So did you know that butterflies taste with their feet?

 

I got that off of a Heinz ketchup packet on lunch tonight. Thought I would share.

 

Anyone else got some good useless information?

President Garfield could write in Latin with his right hand, and in Greek with his left, simultaneously.

An ant held deep enough in water (once that air bubble they always make around their heads when they go under expires) head will explode

 

This has been another Useless fact

Baby back ribs are pork.

Important Safety fact!!!!:

 

Heliacon is now 100% Teflon free.

To the cones ( or is it rods) in your eyes, red and green are opposites... the same is true of yellow and blue. That's why if you look through red sunglasses for any length of time, when you remove them everything appears to be tinted green. (can try the same thing by staring at a union jack.... AHHH... go get a first year psych book)

Okay I wanted to contribute and waste everyones time. So here is a fun useless story to read. And a link where I got it, so I don't have to worry about plagerism.

 

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/pudding/index.html

 

The Pudding Guy

 

What would you do with over 12,000 cups of pudding?

Most people have a junk drawer, but I'm proud to say that I have a junk closet. The only time it's ever cleaned out is when I move. Since that doesn't happen too often, you can imagine the mess in there. This closet just happens to be the place where I store all of those things that I have purchased, but never found a use for. These were deals that just seemed to good to be true when I first came across them.

 

A Davis, California civil engineer named David Phillips found himself in a similar boat in May of 1999. While cruising the aisles of his local supermarket one day, a promotion for Healthy Choice foods caught his eye. The deal was quite simple: For every ten Universal Price Codes that were sent in to the company, the customer would receive 500 frequent flyer miles. And, if the UPC codes were mailed out by May 31, the value of the labels would be doubled.

 

Phillips did some quick math in his head and was sure that he had stumbled across a deal that was too hard to resist. He had been considering taking his family to Europe that summer, so why not eat their way there?

 

Clearly, the cheaper he could get the Healthy Choice products, the lower the cost of the family's vacation. His first discovery was cans of Healthy Choice soup at about ninety cents each. He loaded his cart with the cans and proceeded to the checkout.

 

His next step was to drive over to the local Grocery Store Outlet, a chain of warehouse-style supermarkets that specialize in overstock and discontinued merchandise. The store was selling Healthy Choice chocolate pudding at twenty-five cents apiece. And, to top that off, each container had its own UPC code. He quickly purchased the store's entire inventory.

 

Having hit the mother lode, David then continued on to the remaining ten Grocery Store Outlet stores in his area. When they all ran out of pudding, David requested that the store manager bring in an additional sixty cases. His final take was 12,150 containers of pudding. Do a little bit of math and you will quickly realize that he was eligible for 1,215,000 frequent flyer miles!

 

Now, can you imagine what your neighbors would think if you carried over 12,000 containers of pudding into your home. First, they would probably conclude that you were either crazy or perverted. Then they would think up all kinds of strange uses for the pudding. Could they be using it for pudding wrestling? Pudding baths? Could they actually be eating it? David's answer was perfect: They were stocking up for Y2K.

 

But, there was one hitch. The May 31st deadline was quickly approaching. His family could not peel the labels and fill out the required reimbursement forms fast enough.

 

What to do? What to do?

 

David had the perfect answer. He donated the remaining pudding to local food banks and the Salvation Army. In exchange, their volunteers would peel off all of the UPC codes and give them back to him.

 

Once all of the coupons were ready to go, they were mailed off to Healthy Choice. David wasn't sure that the company would honor the deal, and when they didn't send him the airline miles in a reasonable amount of time, he began to get nervous. He called the company and they claimed that they had never received the package. Luckily, David had sent the package by registered mail and had photographs to prove his purchases. Shortly thereafter, the company mailed him his certificates.

 

In the end, David and his family collected 1, 253,000 miles from his puddings and soups. He split 216,000 of the miles among Delta, United, and Northwest airlines. The remaining 1,037,000 miles were posted to his American Airlines account. And since he topped the million mile mark, he automatically became a lifelong member of American Airlines AAdvantage Gold club. David now has lifetime access to a priority reservation number, priority boarding, and additional perks.

 

Healthy Choice's cost for David's travel bonanza is estimated to be around two cents per mile or a little over $25,000. David's cost, however, was only $3,140.

 

I guess that sometimes deals that sound too good to be true can actually be true!

 

Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.

Bees and dogs can smell fear!

Dont cross the streams!

 

 

You guys know what I'm talking about.

when you make yourself into a letter "T" with your arms stretched out the length from finger tip to finger tip should be close to your actual height.

 

on you pointer finger from the tip of it to the first crease is about an inch.

 

your forearm, from wrist to elbow should be close to your foot's length.

 

um. also heard that your fist is about the size of your heart and if you put your fists together like your praying but with fists instead of open hands thats about the size of your brain. dont know this one to be true cause ya know i cant get to my heart or brain to check. the other ones are pretty right on though.

I have to say those last 2 are true Erlin, too many years in school gives you useless info like that sometimes. However, it is only true for a HEALTHY human. If you have problems your heart can be MUCH larger or slightly smaller from use, and while your brain can't get MUCH larger w/o causing death, it actually can get a bit small before the grim reaper takes you under its wing...

 

My 2 copper pieces for this thread

Ok, so im going to give you all a lesson on things i know which equate the the number PHI, or 1.618 unless im mistaken. Its a ratio which occurs in tons of things, almost anything naturally occuring.

 

The distance from the top of your head, to the ground, divided by the distance from your belly button to the ground will create this number, or pretty dam close, if not, they yes, you are a freak.

 

The radii of a conch shell, or any spiral shell will produce this ratio when you divide the larger radius by the smaller radius.

 

anyways, this number occurs everywhere, google it and be amazed.

Hmm, I reluctantly post this as I don't want to get into a debate with anyone here - especially about a series of books that were mediocre at best (IMHO).

 

However, for those of you whom, like I, were schooled way too long...

A more detailed explanation of the Golden Section, or PHI, of which the Fibonacci sequence is directly related, is here...

 

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html

 

For the semi-normal people.

 

http://www.textism.com/bucket/fib.html

 

Oh, and as for my addition to this useless info...

With PHI = 1.618 and phi = .618 (the other important number here but left for another time)

1 / phi = phi +1 = PHI

 

-Xarn out