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Ok, so you know all that useless information floating around out there? Well I bet at least some of it's useful to someone!

How about you offload some of those little pointless tidbits you know you're never going to need, and throw 'em all in this here thread! That way, instead of going to waste they can be recycled as shiny new useful tidbits for someone else, and you can free up some brainspace to concentrate on writing something like you're supposed to be doing! Everybody's happy!

And you never know, you might be leafing through this thread later and find just exactly what you never knew you needed!

Brilliant!
 

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Wear rubber gloves when handling chili peppers. If you don't, even after several hours and washing your hands several times, rubbing your eye is going to really, really hurt. I've lost a few disposable contact lenses that way.
 

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MadScientistMatt said:
Wear rubber gloves when handling chili peppers. If you don't, even after several hours and washing your hands several times, rubbing your eye is going to really, really hurt.
Not to mention having a pee.
 

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pot became illegal in 1933. but cocaine use was a popular pastime throughout the 1920s--both for the US.

adult toys (if you know what i mean) are illegal in atlanta.

there are musical condoms.

there are condoms named after the US flag--old glory condoms they are.

hitler was missing 1/2 of his manhood--really. a birth defect.

FDR died in the bed of his mistress.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife set her hospital on fire--it is so believed.

yup, most of mine are dirty and weird. acadamia will do that to you.
 

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You don't need to drink alcohol to get drunk.

Drink 60 glasses of water in one hour and you will be legally drunk and feel all the same effects.

That's what I heard on the Discovery Channel.
 

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Hermit said:
You don't need to drink alcohol to get drunk.

Drink 60 glasses of water in one hour and you will be legally drunk and feel all the same effects.

That's what I heard on the Discovery Channel.

humm. maybe i should try that. might save on my bar bill. but the peeing . . . how in the heck would i manage?
 

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MadScientistMatt said:
Not to mention, cocaine was never outright banned like marijuanna. It can still be obtained legally by prescription.

why yes, yes it is. and when you have a terminal disease, or even in an intense flare with lupus--or the likes, doctors will rx it to you by the bottles.
 

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The "fresh after rain" smell is caused by bacterial spores reproducing themselves. Depressing, huh?

Stuff in the freezer still goes bad eventually (I made it to twenty-six before I learned this, so no laughing).

If you add a pinch of cloves to a burned pot of stew, or just about any hearty beef dish, it helps hide the burned taste.

Add a tablespoon or two of unsweetened Dutch chocolate to chili; it gives it a really rich, full-bodied taste.
 

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Here's a good one:

If you run out of dishwasher detergent, dishwashing liquid is not a good substitite.


In fact, it's probably one of the worst things you can do. :(
 

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Great Wall of China

Great, a chance to address one of my pet peeves!
That is: "The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space."
NOT so!
If you think about it for a moment, perhaps you'll understand:
the wall is very llllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnng
but not very high.

By the way -- "The Great Wall" is not actually one wall, per se. Several Chinese emperors built "a great wall" during different dynasties. They don't line up.

I have an academic background in traditional Chinese culture, and life experiences in both the PRC and Taiwan -- so, if you have any questions in this area, just let me know.
 

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Come on people, you can't have gone a whole week without learning anything trivial! Ok, I've got one for you:

You can't immobilise a car by pouring sugar in the tank. The sugar won't dissolve and all it'll do is clog up the filter. Eventually. Maybe.

Your turn!
 

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The Power of Pineapple Juice

OK, here's something that may be of use -- if not for some novel, then personally:
The fastest way to clear up a bruise (black-and-blue mark) is to drink pineapple juice.
Seriously.
 

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Don't eat polar bear liver without mixing it with lean meat like rabbit - you'll give yourself Vitamin A poisoning.
 

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Sleep researchers are using fruit flies to study sleep cycles. It turns out that their sleep needs are similar to humans' sleep needs. Gross. I hate bugs. :eek:
 

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Okay, here's one that everyone probably already knows...

Premarin is made from Pregnant Mares Urine....mmmm, get me some o' dat!
 

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In feudal Japan, it was legal for a samurai to cut off a peasant's head to test the sharpness of a new sword.

Go, fedualism!
 

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One one-hundredth of an inch of rain (0.01”) falling on one acre of land weighs approximately 1.1 tons.

The hard cylinder on the end of your shoelace is called an aglet.

It would take 1.2 million mosquito bites to drain an adult human of all blood.

Maryn, unable to use these in a novel
 

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Japan and Russia have technically been in a state of war for the past fity years.

You probably know that the Soviet Union declared war on Imperial Japan after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, right before the end of the War in the Pacific. But the two countries have never signed a peace treaty, due to a dispute over the ownership of the Kurile Islands.
 

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Laser pointers aimed at an aquarium will cause the fish to have convulsions. Very bad for the fish.