Senior Forum's Useless Information Exchange

[fuzzybuddy]

Do you want help with your taxes? Don't look here. You want a cure for what ails ya? Don't look here. You want a great recipe? You get the idea. This is Senior Forum's Compendium of Useless Information. If you have some Useless Information, it goes right here,
For instance: Bananas float in water.

 

[CeeCee]

Haha...lots of things float in water...I won’t mention the first thing that popped into my sick mind, lol.

 

[Sunny]

Most popular dog breed in the U.S. and Britain: Labrador Retriever

 

[RadishRose]

My car is silver.

(Recipes here are good tho')

 

[CeeCee]

Here are quite a few...I didn’t know most.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/adamdavis/useless-facts


Let me know if anyone tries #14...yikes!!

 

[Laurie]

For instance: Bananas float in water.


That's not useless information.

If ever I've got to swim between two tropical islands I will use a hand of bananas as a buoyancy aid!

 

[Pappy]

Good to know, but it makes them hard to eat.

 

[RadishRose]

Good to know, but it makes them hard to eat.

 

[AZ Jim]

The Great Wall of China is 5500 miles long.

 

[Camper6]

Do you want help with your taxes? Don't look here. You want a cure for what ails ya? Don't look here. You want a great recipe? You get the idea. This is Senior Forum's Compendium of Useless Information. If you have some Useless Information, it goes right here,
For instance: Bananas float in water.

With or without the skin?

 

[Camper6]

The recipes posted here are an inspiration for those who live alone and cook for themselves.

It's not useless information. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

 

[Ruthanne]

My vacuum cleaner is red. Who cares, right?

 

[JFBev]

Both my car and my vacuum cleaner are gray. :tmi: ?

 

[RadishRose]

The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 93 millions miles. At least it was when I was in grade school

 

[RadishRose]

Here are quite a few...I didn’t know most.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/adamdavis/useless-facts


Let me know if anyone tries #14...yikes!!

I did- this is what I got-

 

[CeeCee]

I did- this is what I got-

haha...useless buzzfeed.

Where is that, do you know?

 

[RadishRose]

haha...useless buzzfeed.

Where is that, do you know?

Oh yes, The Netherlands, by latitude and longitude.

 

[Old Dummy]

The all-time record high temperature for both Hawaii and Alaska was +100° F.

 

[RadishRose]

from that Buzzfeed link-

[h=2]A jiffy is an actual unit of time, not just an expression.[/h]
In computer engineering, it is the length of one cycle of the computer's system clock (around 10 milliseconds). In chemistry and physics, a jiffy is the amount of time it takes light to travel a distance of one centimeter — about 33.3564 picoseconds.

 

[CeeCee]

The all-time record high temperature for both Hawaii and Alaska was +100° F.

The hottest temperature ever recorded in Fresno, California is 115 degrees, which occurred on July 8, 1905. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the state of California is 134 degrees, which occurred on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley.Feb 8, 2018

[h=3][/h]

 

[CeeCee]

from that Buzzfeed link-

A jiffy is an actual unit of time, not just an expression.


In computer engineering, it is the length of one cycle of the computer's system clock (around 10 milliseconds). In chemistry and physics, a jiffy is the amount of time it takes light to travel a distance of one centimeter — about 33.3564 picoseconds.

thats pretty useful, lol....Now I know when someone tells me they’ll be here in a jiffy....it’s probably pretty fast.

 

[applecruncher]

The all-time record high temperature for both Hawaii and Alaska was +100° F.

This surprises me; I'd think Hawaii would be considerably higher.

 

[gumbud]

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more like the great wail of china imo

 

[Catlady]

The hottest temperature for Tucson was 117° on June 26th, 1990. The average is about 104 during the summer (but, it's a dry heat, so we might roast but won't boil).

 

[Old Dummy]

The hottest temperature ever recorded in Fresno, California is 115 degrees, which occurred on July 8, 1905. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the state of California is 134 degrees, which occurred on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley.Feb 8, 2018

[h=3][/h]

The hottest temp ever recorded in the world was 136 F in Libya (if memory serves). But in recent years the number has come into dispute about the way it was recorded, and Death Valley's 134 may now be the record. This was as of a few years ago; I don't have anything current.

Speaking of Death Valley: Within the entire 3,000 mile-wide lower 48, the highest point is Mt. Whitney in Cali at 14,505' above sea level. The lowest point, Death Valley at 282' below sea level, is only about 75 miles away from Mt. Whitney.

And, supposedly, from points in Death Valley you can see Mt. Whitney. I found these bits of trivia quite fascinating. YMMV.