Most pointless facts EVER!

Cosimo · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:46

Have some facts:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18153610

PapaLazaru · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:47

At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

Deadbeat · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:48

lowrider007 said:
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.

oooh, I can play this game!

Hippopotomonstrososesquipedaliophobia - fear of extremely long words

Anatidaephobia - fear that a duck is watching you

Arachibutyrophobia - fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

These three, as far as I am aware, are fictional. These are not:

Proctophobia - fear of rectums

Pogonophobia - fear of beards (as made famous by Margaret Thatcher

Semiskimmed · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:48

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

alexevans92 · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:54

Thats pretty cool.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Deadbeat · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:55

Fact: at least half of the viable facts in this thread have been featured on QI, my "states of matter" fact included.

Cybermyk · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:57

The Pentagon has twice as many toilets as necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate facilities for blacks and whites.

Cosimo · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:00

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Deadbeat · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:03

simulatorman said:
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Humans & dolphins are the only animals to have sex purely for pleasure.

Cybermyk · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:04

simulatorman said:
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Wouldn't that be a useful fact if you were a pig farmer trying to inseminate pany pigs or you was just thinking of having a quickie?

alexevans92 · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:07

yeah lol

Semiskimmed · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:08

simulatorman said:
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

lucky buggers, no wonder their tails are so curled

MikeHunt79 · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:12

alexevans92 said:
Thats pretty cool.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

I wonder who found this one out?

alexevans92 · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:14

i know you would have to be pretty silly to want to take a cow upstairs in the first place

wannabedamned · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:15

MikeHunt79 said:
I wonder who found this one out?

I wonder how he's getting on with a cow living upstairs

Castiel · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:17

alexevans92 said:
i know you would have to be pretty silly to want to take a cow upstairs in the first place

A confused Welshman perhaps...?

Cosimo · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:17

Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

Von Smallhausen · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:19

Superewza said:
I assume you mean speed of sound?

I do.

Manflu you see.

Von Smallhausen · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:20

simulatorman said:
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

alexevans92 · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:23

I bet the cow is really getting on his nerves now considering it cant go downstairs.