DMP'S useless knowledge

[DeadMansParty]

Chicken feathers and water are the only legal things that can be released from your car.

 

[Carek1230]

The term "dodger" (from the Brooklyn Dodgers, now known as the Los Angeles Dodgers) was a shortened form of "trolley dodgers," which described Brooklynites for their ability to avoid being hit by trolley cars

 

[MsPurrl]

In the 1960s, A&W became the first fast-food restaurant chain to add bacon to a cheeseburger.

 

[love_u2_adam]

Couples who have a TV in their bedroom have sex half as often as those who don't. The effect is especially strong among couples over age 50.

 

[Carek1230]

"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (a lung disease) is the longest English word according to the Oxford English Dictionary.


(learned that in my medical terminology course!)

 

[Purplereign]

Morrisseys ebut solo album 'Viva Hate' was originally going to be released as 'Education In Reverse' in the antipodes . . . record company changed its mind at the last minute . . . but some copies were sold before it was pulled from the shelves and repackaged as 'Viva Hate' . . .

 

[DeadMansParty]

the term " hooker" came from General Hooker who used to bring in women to visit his troops.

 

[MsPurrl]

Three Spanish scientists posit that the observed acceleration of the expanding cosmos is an illusion caused by the slowing of time. According to their math, time may eventaully stop, at which point everything will come to a standstill.

 

[Carek1230]

The Greek word "gymnasium" means "to exercise naked". In Ancient Greece, gymnasts wore no clothes.

 

[DeadMansParty]

In the new release edition on the film E.T., Steven edited the scene where the boy's begin to fly on bike's. at the Police stop the police were holding shotguns, now he CGI'ed walkie talkies in thier hands.

 

[Carek1230]

A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!

 

[RedRocksU2]

Ticketbastard sucks.




one more,



Contrary to popular belief, U2.com sucks.

 

[Carek1230]

Ticketmaster = Ticketbastard


^What happened, Carlos?

 

[Purplereign]

The television series "ER" was originally planned as a movie to be directed by Steven Spielberg. When plans fell through and the project eventually became a series, Spielberg became interested in another Michael Crichton creation: Jurassic Park

 

[MsPurrl]

Einstein showed that gravity makes time run more slowly. Thus, airplane passengers, flying where Earth's pull is weaker, age a few extra nanoseconds each flight.

 

[Carek1230]

Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern US state.

 

[MsPurrl]

Until the 1800s, every village lived in its own time zone, with clocks synchronized to the local solar noon.

 

[Carek1230]

^Wow, could you imagine if it was like that today?!!!!

 

[MsPurrl]

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.

 

[Carek1230]

If you drop a penny off of the Empire State Building, it will be going 106 miles per hour (terminal velocity) when it reaches the ground. Something moving this fast may actually cause head injuries if it lands on you. (OUCH)

 

[MsPurrl]

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.

 

[waynetravis]

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

 

[waynetravis]

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

 

[waynetravis]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

[Carek1230]

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

 

[MsPurrl]

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy % of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

 

[Carek1230]

The Cure for Insomnia (1987) is the longest movie ever made at a total running time of 85 hours (5,220 min) . It premiered in its entirety at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois from January 31 to February 3, 1987, in one continuous showing.

 

[DeadMansParty]

DMP old band Is in American pie 2, lol, nothing im proud of

YouTube - American Pie 2 - Tomas Falsas

thats me on guitar and vox, the lyrics are me making fun of an old friend

 

[Carek1230]

I think it's awesome, DMP!!

 

[MsPurrl]

Walter Hunt invented the safety pin in 1848.