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

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

( Time to get the Domestos out)

80s crooner Glenn Medeiros wa pretty rubbish, really.

My typing is rubbish too.

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

Can they "walk" at all?

Heavy Water (H2O, but where Hydrogen has a Neutron) will /kill/ you if drunk in place of Water (H2O, where Hydrogen doesn't have a Neutron) for long periods of time.

I know it's not exactly useless, but it's just so cool I had to say it.

Recently in Western-super-mere they found a real, live three-headed frog. It had two functioning eyes in each head, and six functioning legs. When the children who found it showed it to their parents, it hopped away...

I've never seen a freaky siamese frog...

Now that is a REALLY useless fact!

Too bad there's no picture.

Ask, and you shall recieve, here's the BBC news story, complete with picture...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/3534361.stm

I've seen a three-headed frog! FACT!

Oh, why did I click? What was I thinking?... I knew it wouldn't be cute like Blinky. http://www.rob-clarkson.com/duff-brewery/blinky/02.gif

Rubber bands last longer when kept in the fridge.

hmmm.... hence part of the stores onboard a shuttle is Coca-Cola, because as everyone knows, NASA can't get Seven-Up...

A truly useless fact: the very first Tiger Tank used in combat in WW2 was sent into a swamp near Leningrad, which is a sensible thing to do with a fifty-ton tank, and lost in quicksand.

Can we please have a moratorium on NASA jokes. I work at the Johnson Space Center. I'd met some of those people you're making jokes about.

Cool job, CZ, sorry you've lost colleagues.

Missouri State Law apparently requires you to have a permit to shave.

In Florida, it is illegal to play chess underwater.


Proudwart

But is it illegal to vomit underwater?

Not during a chess game, apparently.

a can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds.

Oh, enough with the vomiting.

During the Siege of Stalingrad, tanks produced in the city (before the factories were blown up of course) were sent directly to fight the German Army, without even being painted; which makes sense really.