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by **rdsrds2120** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:43 pm

Time for FACTOIDS!!!

I'm going to post some useless bit of information that could win you countless sums of money if a man in a suitcase were to come up and ask you a random question.

I will then give a CATEGORY for the next tidbit that wastes 3 seconds of our lives to be posted in. It's something that's a rare piece of knowledge, one of those things that makes you go "HMM". So, here we go!

1) A penny has 180 ridged edges on the side of it

Next category: Miscellaneous (whatever you want)!

-rd

by **Timminz** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:44 pm

You spelled factions wrong.

by **rdsrds2120** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:48 pm

Timminz wrote:You spelled factions wrong.

I wasn't going for a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics; I was aiming for a brief or trivial item of news or information, now, shhh :-$

2) Scientists have identified only 4,000 different viruses, a fraction of the estimated 400,000 believed to exist on Earth

Next Subject: Math

by **Victor Sullivan** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:50 pm

Timminz wrote:You spelled factoids wrong.

2) Victor Sullivan is a character from the Uncharted series of video games for the PS3.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:52 pm

Oh, rds, fastposting me like that... For shame...

3) e^iπ + 1 = 0

Next: Germany

by **jonesthecurl** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:55 pm

Bismarck was the first to introduce old-age pensions.

Next topic: shoelaces.

by **rdsrds2120** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:00 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:Bismarck was the first to introduce old-age pensions.

Next topic: shoelaces.

The tip of a shoelace is called an aglet.

Next: Water Statistics

-rd

by **Timminz** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:03 pm

rdsrds2120 wrote:
Timminz wrote:You spelled factions wrong.

I wasn't going for a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics; I was aiming for a brief or trivial item of news or information, now, shhh

I'll be quiet, when you fix it.

by **rdsrds2120** on Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:05 pm

Timminz wrote:
rdsrds2120 wrote:
Timminz wrote:You spelled factions wrong.

I wasn't going for a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics; I was aiming for a brief or trivial item of news or information, now, shhh

I'll be quiet, when you fix it.

It's not broken.

In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters where they pollute the usable water supply.

Next: History

-rd

by **Army of GOD** on Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:06 pm

Indira Gandhi, India's only female Prime Minister, has no relation to Mahatma Gandhi

Next subject: THE NUMBER 7

by **rdsrds2120** on Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:18 pm

Your taste buds, hair color, eye color, and something else I can't remember MAY change on a 7 year cycle.

Next: Apples

by **jonesthecurl** on Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:59 pm

Despite the saying "American as apple pie", ou can't buy Bramleys (which the Uk calls "cooking apples") in the U.S. and thus it's hard to make a good uK-style apple pie.

Next up: concrete

by **isaiah40** on Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:08 pm

Sixty percent of the 47,744 mile U.S. Interstate highway system was built of concrete, especially in urban areas where FHWA anticipated heavy traffic volumes. Concrete was selected because of its superior durability, safety, higher reflection of light at night, and greater traction.

Next: Oil