Give me a piece of Interesting but useless information

[Dr. Jekyll]

Since 1945, British military tanks have had water boiling vessels to facilitate making tea, among other things. British soldiers were most vulnerable at teatime because they had to get out of the tanks to boil water. A week after D-Day, June 13, 1944, the Germans ambushed a British brigade, in the French village of Villers-Bocage in Normandy, while the men were having a morning tea and killed 14 tanks in 15 minutes.

 

[debodun]

Alan Alda was the last actor cast for the TV show "M*A*S*H" and was the only actor that appeared in all of the episodes.

 

[VaughanJB]

It is estimated that we could only go back in time somewhere between 400 to 500 years ago (approximately from the mid-1500's, ie the mid 16th Century) and understand the language (assuming English is the language in question).

We could only go back in time 450 million years and still be able to breathe.

 

[FredAx]

The Great Salt Lake is overrun with sea monkeys.

 

[Paladin1950]

Jimmy Hoffa never met Mother Teresa.

 

[Paladin1950]

Don Corleone actually preferred French cuisine.

 

[Bretrick]

The Great Salt Lake is overrun with sea monkeys.

Sea Monkeys - Are they Brine Shrimp?
I remember them being advertised for sale via mail order back in the 60s/70s.

 

[Paladin1950]

The New York Giants football team was actually named after a race 12 foot humans whose skeletons have been found in the Catskill Mountains.

 

[gruntlabor]

The New York Giants football team was actually named after a race 12 foot humans whose skeletons have been found in the Catskill Mountains.

The tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), who was 8'11" --Guiness World Records paraphrased

 

[Bretrick]

Our stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.

 

[timoc]

My potted plant has 43 leaves on it.... oops, no, sorry, there are only 41, two have fallen off.

 

[GoneFishin]

Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes.

 

[911]

Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints. The vast majority of identical twins have identical DNA. However, only lately, have some identical twins been found to have a few genetic differences.

 

[feywon]

Seems to me that data, on casual glance only shows that people are more interested in (more often search for) 'useless' info, but if you look carefully more than one other category would be acknowledged as useful by most folks.

Doing the math on just the few visible on this segment:
doctor info 3600
aids info 4400
airport info 5400
vitamin D3 info 6600
website info 8100
Total 28100

And that reality is in itself a somewhat useless piece of info since we clearly don't have the full list nor do we know HOW the source (a crucial part of determining accuracy and usefulness) is defining the categories of useful and useless.

 

[Pappy]

Australia is wider than the moon.

 

[debodun]

Both Donald Sutherland (recently deceased) and Alan Alda portrayed Hawkeye Pierce in "M*A*S*H" (Sutherland in the 1970s movie and Alda on the TV series). They also both contracted polio as children.

 

[debodun]

Barbara Billingsley, an actress perhaps best known for her work on the TV series "Leave It to Beaver", always wore a necklace when in front of the camera to hide a scar on her neck.

 

[Pappy]

I don’t care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.

 

[helenbacque]

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

 

[Paco Dennis]

After today is tomorrow, and after that is the day after tomorrow, and then it becomes a few days.

 

[Sunny]

Hiccups accomplish absolutely nothing

 

[-Oy-]

Wallace & Gromit are from my old hometown of Wigan.

 

[Shadowman]

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz​

German philosopher and mathematician
Born 1 July 1646, Died 14 November 1716

 

[squirrelwhisperer]

Flies urinate every 3 seconds. Remember that the next time they are walking on the rim of your drinking glass.