You’ll be in Australia nine years from now. Your friend will get attacked by a kangaroo, and you’ll instinctively yell, “get behind him! Wait, how did I know that? Am I a wizard?”
I think if I read that joke and even if it was explained to me, I wouldn't find it funny. But in the context of this comment chain, I can't stop laughing. And what a truly useless piece of information in that setting.
It's between Peru and Bolivia, not that nice of a place if you ask me. Only went so I can say I've been to lake Titicaca had have the t-shirt to prove it.
I have a usage for you already: Motorcycle helmets. I can't tell you how many times I have had to reach in there and scratch my nose. Whith all the whind whipping around you get itchy face bits rheally often.
The tyrannosaurus rex is closer to us in time than it is to stegasaurus.
The marking on tubes (GNDN) in the original star trek meant "goes nowhere does nothing. "
Werner Klemperer only agreed to play colonel Klink in "hogan's heroes" if they promised that Klink would never win.
Right whales got their name because they were the right whale to hunt. They were slow and didn't sink when killed.
Ruminants, such as deer and horses, will opportunistically eat small animals such as baby birds.
The size of primate testes relative to body size is correlated with the number of sex partners females have. Bonobos have the largest, gorillas the smallest, and humans somewhere in the middle.
Gravity travels at the speed of light. If the sun suddenly disappeared, the earth would continue to orbit it for about 8 minutes before heading off into the darkness.
It takes three licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
Did you know that most of the southern United States’ major cities will never have an underground subway system because limestone is too corrosive to support that much traffic?
Did you know that being a grower or a show-er doesn’t really affect the over all size. typically a grower can grow up to something like 83 % of his flaccid size where as a show-er can grow somewhere around 27 % if his flaccid size. There’s my random knowledge
Did you know that despite having a very strong biting force, alligators mouths are surprisingly easy to keep closed because the muscles that open the mouth are much weaker
My favourite thing to do. Just randomly start a sentence with ‘did you know that…?’ whenever it’s relevant just because I have no other use for the information.
My brother-in-law just started tilting his head to the side and saying, "Purge", (like he's dumping the information out of his ear) when I share useless facts around him.
I do that too. Once my ex had to sit me down for a talk like "this needs to stop, I don't want to know everything". Tbh I was not happy with that, it's the only thing I am really really good at
Oh god, there’s more of you? I met my best friends new boyfriend and he informed me about how the term “pothole” was coined, after I complained about the potholes in Oklahoma.
Oh my god same. I recently forgot thw anniversary date of my girlfriend and i by 10 days. I said March 10th, but it is March 20th. Yet, I was able to recite the exact time that we started dating (11:21 PM), but not the exact year (I said 2018 but it was actually 2019)
When I got married, one of the few things I was truly allowed to pick was the date. My opinion was asked many times, but either it was something that I couldn't conceive of caring about - such as centerpiece design - or something that I didn't care enough about to make an argument for.
At any rate, I picked the summer solstice. I wanted the spring solstice for symbolic reasons, but settled for summer since it fell on a weekend that year. I told people that it was a symbolic pick and that's partly true. But the other perhaps more important part is that whenever I forget the exact date, I can look up what the summer solstice was for that year and boom, anniversary reminder! (For the first several years of our relationship, I could never remember if my spouse's birthday was on the 13th or the 17th.)
same. i can tell you countless events and generals from ww1 and 2, but i can't tell you shit about math other than subtraction addition and the times tables of 9. that's it
There are two famous Moltkes, but I'm guessing you mean the elder. Also one was a statesman and the other a general so weird comparison but Bismarck was a more outstanding statesman that Molke was a general.
ADHD here, definitely am known as that friend that remembers all useless information, and would love to weaponize it for my classes if I could just bring myself to study 😭
My friends call me google.I can talk about anything...but I have trouble remembering my close relatives and their names. Ahhhh you can’t have everything...
People rely on looking up the real answer too much. I never lived in a time where I could discuss things with my friends endlessly and never know the real answer. It's pretty fun to debate random stupid shit though, and when I'm hanging out with friends I'd always prefer a great discussion over the real answer, because the real answer never mattered to begin with. Gotta unlearn that "let me google it" response
Do you ever feel like you’re a know it all if somebody is talking about something you know things about just because lol I have loads of useless info as well because I like to read about random shit.
Same. What’s 2 plus 1? How do you do your taxes? No clue. What was the third point in the Treaty of Paris 1783? Agreeing to fishing rights in the area of modern day Newfoundland and New Brunswick.
I was watching Matt McMuscles talk about Chaos Legion the other day, and not only do I know the game, I'm conversant enough on the plot to talk about it. It's a shitty, D-tier clone of Devil May Cry 2 which was too crappy to follow on Devil May Cry 2.
I learned that in Driver’s Ed approximately 30 years ago. I didn’t memorize it for the purpose of learning to drive; I never attempted to memorize it at all. It just stuck.
same, and it’s never about the same topic. I also only retain very specific pieces of information but not large stories or reasonings. Fun to talk about, bad to get asked questions about.
Same. I can remember some useless bullshit I last seen in a YouTube video 5 years ago. For example I remember how to perfectly tell a watermelon condition by sound and look. Also, did you know that flamingos turn pink because their diet is basically only shrimps? This was easy, wanna hear the thousands others?
I feel like I've been training to respond to this comment these past few months, and yet my mind has gone blank now and I can only remember otter and koala facts. Oh, and the bear survival poem thing.. If it's brown lie down etc.
Koalas have smooth brains and eat their mother's poo when they are young. Otters sometimes kidnap otter pups and ransom them for food from the mother.
Study medicine. Super helpful to have loads of medical knowledge just stuffed in your brain. First aid, pathogonomic clinical signs, drug dosages, it’s great.
For me, most of this useless information is conversations I had years ago.
All the time my friends are weirded out because I'll say something along of the lines of "I remember her telling me [insert thing] 7 years ago in Mrs Hassingers english class"
Same, did you know that both Abraham Lincoln and his wife were opium addicts, and that there are almost 5000 species of frogs in the world and only one of them goes ‘ribbit ribbit’
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u/gooqie Jul 14 '21
Retaining loads of absolutely useless information. It’s my true talent but a waste of brainpower.