Useless Information Thread

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 1:12 pm

InDaZone1219 wrote:Pyrexia is the medical name for a fever.

now you know...

As a Magic: the Gathering fan, this amuses me.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:49 pm

InDaZone1219 wrote:
Amazee Dayzee wrote:I'm gonna start washing everything I eat and scrubbing it so that I don't get any sicknesses.
Watch out for mosquitoes and sandflies too.
Then there are Human Bot Files that tackle and lay eggs on a mosquito during
mid-flight. This is so when the mosquito goes to suck blood from a human, the heat of
the blood causes the eggs to fall onto the skin. The larvae hatch and eat their way into
the skin and thrive with their posterior breathing hole sticking out and barbs to hold
themselves in place. This is so they harm the human when they are trying to be extracted
from their burrows. After maturing, they leave the skin and take down another mosquito.
Did I mention that they can stretch to about a foot long when being extracted?

Are you TRYING to make me a paranoid mess? Because you are doing a real good job with it. xD

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:55 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:
InDaZone1219 wrote:
Amazee Dayzee wrote:I'm gonna start washing everything I eat and scrubbing it so that I don't get any sicknesses.
Watch out for mosquitoes and sandflies too.
Then there are Human Bot Files that tackle and lay eggs on a mosquito during
mid-flight. This is so when the mosquito goes to suck blood from a human, the heat of
the blood causes the eggs to fall onto the skin. The larvae hatch and eat their way into
the skin and thrive with their posterior breathing hole sticking out and barbs to hold
themselves in place. This is so they harm the human when they are trying to be extracted
from their burrows. After maturing, they leave the skin and take down another mosquito.
Did I mention that they can stretch to about a foot long when being extracted?
Are you TRYING to make me a paranoid mess? Because you are doing a real good job with it. xD

I just got into da zone and I like biology.

Btw im not trying to creep anybody out, sorry if it did.

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:02 pm

During the making of Chicken Run, Ginger was going to have a little brother named Nobby. But Aardman decided to cut Nobby out because they felt he would've made the film "too cute".

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:58 pm

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

herobrineharry · Post by **herobrineharry** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 9:20 pm

Yeah...

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:07 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Maiden name or married name?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 6:30 pm

Maiden. If she was married, her name would be Carson (Ken's last name).

Vegas · Post by **Vegas** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 8:55 pm

The original drafts for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory featured around ten children, several of them were killed throughout the story. And the original draft for Matilda featured the main character as a brat who died at the end.
Roald Dahl was WARPED.

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:05 pm

The X-Seed 4000, with its 4 kilometres of height, is the highest skyscraper ever projected, envisioned and completed (but not also planned) for the construction. Besides face physics problems, there's the not less important one of the cost, estimated in about 1 trillion of dollars. It was projected for Tokyo in 1995.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:25 pm

Roald Dahl actually hated the Gene Wilder "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" movie because he thought it focussed too much on Wonka and not enough on Charlie. Personally I preferred the Wilder one to the Depp one.

The movie itself was filmed in Munich and Nördlingen, both in Bavaria, Germany. The chocolate river was actually only 2 feet deep and was made of chocolate cream mixed with water. This eventually turned rancid and stank awfully.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:51 pm

I liked both movies but I watched the Wilder one. My favorite part in the movie was the part with the ceiling fan.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 3:35 pm

Tussis is the medical term for a cough and Rhinorrhea is a runny nose.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:17 pm

E.B. White hated the animated film of his book "Charlotte's Web", complaining that the story is interrupted every few minutes so someone can sing a jolly song. His wife actually wrote the following to the producer of the film: "We have never ceased to regret that your version of "Charlotte's Web" never got made. The Hanna-Barbera version has never pleased either of us...a travesty..."

Personally I loved that movie.

Vegas · Post by **Vegas** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:34 am

Speaking of authors who hated the movie adaptation, PL Travers, the writer for Mary Poppins, broke down in tears at the end of the premiere. Because people gave it a standing ovation. She did admit that it's a good movie in it's own right, but she still hated what Walt Disney did to it.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:44 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:E.B. White hated the animated film of his book "Charlotte's Web", complaining that the story is interrupted every few minutes so someone can sing a jolly song. His wife actually wrote the following to the producer of the film: "We have never ceased to regret that your version of "Charlotte's Web" never got made. The Hanna-Barbera version has never pleased either of us...a travesty..."

Personally I loved that movie.

I wonder what they would have thought of the 2006 movie then.

Another useless fact. Katharine White died 4 years after the release of the 1973 movie and was 7 years older than her husband.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 11:44 pm

People who read this will try to lick their elbow. Some will deny
doing so and some haven't even attempted to lick their elbow.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:23 pm

Back in 1956 recording artist Johnny Mathis was forced to make the decision between trying out for the United States Olympic team (his specialty was track) or recording his first album for Columbia Records. He chose the latter and went on to become the eighth biggest selling album artist of all time. His 1958 album, Johnny’s Greatest Hits, was the first Greatest Hits album ever marketed, spending three weeks at #1 and 490 consecutive weeks on Billboard’s Pop Album chart (that’s almost 9 ½ years!).

Vegas · Post by **Vegas** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:38 am

Lynda Carter tried to do most of her own stunts for the Wonder Woman television series, including the close up shots for this one. She got blasted by CBS for doing it.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:29 pm

Everyone knows that spinach is loaded in iron and makes you stronger - Just look what it has done for Popeye's career. Well, Popeye was wrong. So were all of those parents that stuffed it down their kids' throats. In reality, spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable. This spinach misconception dates back to the 1950's when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach. His decimal place was off by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:52 am

On that same note, apparently the "carrots are good for your eyes" is a misconception that was made after the British used the excuse that their pilots ate lots of carrots. To hide their new radar technology.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:58 pm

Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:19 pm

The actual chandelier you see in the 2004 movie "The Phantom of the Opera" weighs 2.5 tons!
The one you see crashing to the stage, however, is a lightweight version which only weighed half a ton. The flame you see when it hits the stage is quite real though. They actually did set the set alight using gas, polystyrene and an unnamed accelerant!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:24 pm

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

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:29 pm

Due to chemical reactions all over the body, we actually glow in the dark. But we can't see this glow because our eyes are too weak.

Word

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:41 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

wouldn't that be 1.2345678987654321?

Post by **ArcWolf** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:39 pm

InDaZone1219 wrote:Due to chemical reactions all over the body, we actually glow in the dark. But we can't see this glow because our eyes are too weak.
Word

By that logic, everything glows in the dark.

This factoid brought to you by: Infrared

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:04 pm

Intussusception is where part of the intestine to collapses into another, like a telescope.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:05 pm

InDaZone1219 wrote:Intussusception is where part of the intestine to collapses into another, like a telescope.

Is that a medical issue or a natural function?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:07 pm

It's a medical issue and can be caused by a range of things. It can be life-threatening too.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:15 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:It's a medical issue and can be caused by a range of things. It can be life-threatening too.

Absolutely correct! Did you have a patient with it before?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:31 pm

No but we have learned about it. It's dangerous because it can cause the blood supply to sections of intestine to be cut off and that can cause said sections of the intestine to die.
Common causes include hypermotility (too much bowel movement), linear foreign bodies (e.g. a swallowed piece of string), or any obstruction that causes the intestine to strain excessively.

I could show pictures but I think I've pushed the boundaries enough.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:36 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:No but we have learned about it. It's dangerous because it can cause the blood supply to sections of intestine to be cut off and that can cause said sections of the intestine to die.
Common causes include . . . linear foreign bodies (e.g. a swallowed piece of string)

Remind me never to swallow a piece of string.

InDaZone1219 · Post by **InDaZone1219** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:44 pm

Isn't science fascinating?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:02 am

Moral of the story is be cautious when you have a piece of string near your mother.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:40 am

It's actually quite common in horses with colic and in cats that swallow strings that they're playing with. So keep an eye on your kitties.

GameCobra · Post by **GameCobra** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:57 am

Especially high scent string ~ such as mint floss.

My cat, Candycorn a long time ago got ahold of floss without us knowing. we use to throw our floss in the garbage, but he ended up swallowing it one time without us knowing. He always hung around the bathroom and it never occourred to us the scent of the mint floss attracted him towards it. We thought at first him not eating was just him being suck, but then the vet told us what they flushed out of him that we put two and two together.

I'm sure he didn't know any better. it was just the scent.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:31 pm

Another case of: "This smells nice, can I eat it?" "Try!" Then eh CameCobra?

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:47 pm

Catnip and Mint (When they're plants) are pretty similar. So cats tend to be attracted to Mint.

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:06 pm

useless info to most but; Gamecobra has/had a cat named Candycorn. Which I find to be an awesome name for a cat and sounds adorable