h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

something else was invented when something slipped and went OFF in his hand.......

well according to a male colleague here at any rate, that's his excuse!!...

In 1932 British born actress Lillian Millicent Entwistle comitted suicide by climbing up a workman's ladder,and jumping from the 'H' on the Hollywood(land) sign in California.

An oyster can change its gender several times during its life.

good trick to have... wish i could do that

To simulate blood in the shower scene in Psycho Alfred Hitchcock actually used chocolate syrup. Although the scene lasts only 45 seconds on screen it took 7 days to film.

Each year, about 500 new human deseases are discovered.

New Humans can vomit under water

Another useless law

In Orlando, Florida, you are not allowed to just fasten your elephant to a parking meter, you have to pay the normal parking fee.

i knew that about elephants.... and i think it's a downright disgrace..
my elephant took umbrage at being 'parked'..i refused to pay and got into a fight with the traffic warden..poor jumbo was so stressed that we had to leave, took me 2 hours to get that sticker off his arse

I had the same problem when I parked a double yellow lion. They ate the warden, tickets and all.

my uncle's hampster was killed in a scalectrix truck "accident".

He'd set up the track on the same table as the hampster's cage, & hadn't noticed the hampster had escaped. Too late, the truck hit... giving the poor rodent a heart-attack.

Shhh! Don't talk about hamster death... the ones which make the site work are getting recalcitrant as it is!

Useless fact: Most of the silly UK laws which are quoted in this kind of thread were actually repealed by act of Parliament a couple of years ago.

Did someone mention my name??

I'm sure I didn't mention a hamster

there was a reference to scalectrix, way back on the second page of useless facts.

funny how telling you this ACTUALLY COUNTS as a useless fact.

In 1976, a woman from Los Angeles married (in the presence of 20 guests) a 50 pound heavy rock.

*Blinks*

Married a rock? Did anyone even bother to find out whether or not the rock *really* loved her?

It was never going to last. It was a rocky relationship and he was a rolling stone.

Don't worry, it's LA and this kind of thing happens all the time over there.

Also he had a vein of violence. She filed basalt charges a week later.