Useless or interesting facts?

[Bretrick]

1 - House Flies hum in the key of F
2 - If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
3 - In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 km of a private home.
4 - Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms.
5 - Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
6 - A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
7 - It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down.
8 - 99.97% of Japanese are cremated.
9 - Dreamt (and it's derivatives) is the only English word that ends in the letters 'MT'.
10 - In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.

 

[horseless carriage]

When a blue whale farts, you could fit a full-grown horse in the gas bubbles.

 

[MrPants]

If you put a frog on its back then stroke its belly, the frog will stop moving and go into a trance!

 

[Irwin]

Not so much a fact, but something I was thinking about when I woke up from my nap...

You can have a rash of break-ins, in a neighborhood, for example...​

... and you can break out in a rash...​

So does that mean you can break out in a rash of break-ins?​

 

[win231]

"Fat Chance" & "Slim Chance" mean the same thing.

 

[Paco Dennis]

"I just found out what Wi-Fi means. It's almost certainly not what you think.​

Wi-Fi is something most of us use every day. It's a miraculous technology that allows us to communicate and share large amounts digital information to multiple devices without the use of cables. Requesting a Wi-Fi password is almost akin to asking for a drink of water in many houses and establishments. But what does it mean? If you're anything like me, all your guesses are going to be wrong.

Wireless Fidelity? Wrong. Wireless Finder? Nope. Withering Fireballs? Not even close, my friend.

According to MIC (opens in new tab) quoting this interview from 2005 by Boing Boing (opens in new tab), Wi-Fi doesn't mean any of these things, and in fact actually means basically nothing at all. Rather, Wi-Fi was a name settled on between a group now known as the Wi-Fi alliance (opens in new tab) and some brand consultants from Interbrand agency. This kinda feels like when you find out a friend has actually been going by their middle name for years.

The original term IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence was seeming a bit of a hard push in the slogan driven 90s, so the alliance was on the hunt for something a bit more marketable. Ten names were proposed by the brand agency, and in the end the group settled on Wi-Fi, despite the emptiness the name holds. Though a meaningless name didn't work for everyone.

"The only reason that you hear anything about 'wireless fidelity' is some of my colleagues in the group were afraid. They didn't understand branding or marketing. They could not imagine using the name 'Wi-Fi' without having some sort of literal explanation," said Wi-Fi Alliance founding member, Phil Belanger, in the interview. "So we compromised and agreed to include the tag line 'The Standard for Wireless Fidelity' along with the name.

"This was a mistake and only served to confuse people and dilute the brand."

A word that many of us say potentially several times a day is actually straight up marketing nonsense.

So Wi-Fi means nothing, but maybe it's the friends we made along the way? After all, we're currently skipping ahead from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 7 (opens in new tab), and it hasn't even been certified yet (opens in new tab). You can get Wi-Fi range extenders (opens in new tab), USB adapters (opens in new tab), update Wi-Fi drivers (opens in new tab), and connect to Wi-Fi all day long. Wi-Fi truly is a sweet smelling piece of tech, no matter the name."

https://www.pcgamer.com/i-just-found-out-what-wi-fi-means-and-its-sending-me/

 

[Gaer]

"Tom Sawyer" was the first novel ever written on a typewriter.

There is no "Betty Rubble" in the Flintstones chewable vitamins.

Women blink twice as much as men.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Leonardo Di Vinci invented the scissors.

 

[debodun]

About the 1960s TV show "Leave It to Beaver"

Hugh Beaumont was in his 50s when the show was in production.
Beaumont was an ordained Methodist minister and had a Masters degree in Theology from USC.
Barbara Billingsley always wore a necklace when in front of the camera to hide a scar on her neck.
Beaumont and Billingsley didn't get along well at first.
Tony Dow (Wally) and Jerry Mathers (Beaver) were only 3 year apart in age although in the show they were represented as being 6 years apart.
"LITB" was the first prime time American TV show to have a series finale.
It was the first TV show in America to show a toilet in the bathroom.
Jeri Weil who portrayed teacher's pet and snitch, Judy Hensler, left the show due to early adult development. She refused to bind her chest.
This show made its debut on the same day the Soviets launched Sputnik (October 4, 1957).
The pilot for the show was entitled "It's a Small World". Only Jerry Mathers and Barbara Billingsley remained from the original cast when it began series production.

 

[Paladin1950]

If you put a frog on its back then stroke its belly, the frog will stop moving and go into a trance!

If you kiss it, it will wake up.