What pointless pieces of information do you have stored away in your brain?

razorblunt

Ruu wrote: »

Plenty of Sega Megadrive and Master System cheat codes. :cool:

Up C, Down C, Left C, Right C.

Deco99

Dawsons creek series 3 boxset dvd doesnt have the rights to use the theme tune "I dont want to wait" so there's a different less memorable song used......however if you turn the language settings to german dubs it will play the original song during the opening credits. That is more pointless than any universe or science stuff.

Valetta

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery, than the celery has in it in the first place.

Dave_The_Sheep

I memorised "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the song. Bring it out occasionally.

Better than milkshake for bringing the boys to the yard, let me tell you.

eisenberg1

A guy In a pub told me that a million pound notes stacked one on top of the other, would be 365 feet high.

No, he didn't say if they were new or used.

Mr. CooL ICE

I know the number of steps of every stairs I use frequently. Most houses have 14 steps, but one house I lived in during college had 15 steps and it fcuked with my head.

A few weeks ago, I was getting the luas home while drunk and realised the stairs out of the station didn't go 12 steps -> 12 steps -> 12 steps -> 12 steps -> exit. I looked up, realised I was at the wrong side of the tracks.

alpha_a

The jive talk scene in Airplane.

What are those?

The line from Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 'I know you dont understand a word im saying but youre the most beautiful woman ive ever seen in my life and id like to strip you down and butter you like a piece of wonderbread,shave your armpits,poor honey all over your naked body and for the next two weeks pretend im a hungry bear.RAWR’

Speedsie

The phone number for the Bord na Mona office in Offaly in the 50s was 'Blue Ball 2'.

I wasn't even a twinkle in my parents eyes in the fifties. Hell, they hadn't even met in the fifties. I've no idea why I know this.

IvanRakitic

every capital city in the world, strange childhood

Bio Mech

IvanRakitic wrote: »

every capital city in the world, strange childhood

Swaziland?

Buddamus.

bnt

Ronald Reagan, B-movie actor and President of the United States of America ... had a really small head.

eamonnq

Lia_lia wrote: »

Hymns from signing in the school choir.

Was it a choir for the deaf ?

Mesrine65

eisenberg1 wrote: »

A guy In a pub told me that a million pound notes stacked one on top of the other, would be 365 feet high.

No, he didn't say if they were new or used.

370", a pound note is 0.113mm

eisenberg1

Mesrine65 wrote: »

370", a pound note is 0.113mm

370 feet, that is close enough for me. Same height as St Paul's Cathederal (365 feet that is) per the same bloke in the pub:)

Capt'n Midnight

Mesrine65 wrote: »

370", a pound note is 0.113mm

370 inches ? You're miles out. I can't fathom how you did that or have you been using the imperial system furlong ?

If you meant 30' 10" then at least you gave it the whole nine yards.

Mesrine65

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

370 inches ? You're miles out. I can't fathom how you did that or have you been using the imperial system furlong ?

If you meant 30' 10" then at least you gave it the whole nine yards.

You are correct sir, I concur

370' it is

OU812

80% of the world's supply of tictacs are produced in cork including loads of varieties they don't sell here.

By volume alone, Lego is the worlds largest manufacturer of tyres producing over 360 million a year.

eisenberg1

OU812 wrote: »

80% of the world's supply of tictacs are produced in cork including loads of varieties they don't sell here.

By volume alone, Lego is the worlds largest manufacturer of tyres producing over 360 million a year.

A Lego tyre? Must be a very bumpy ride:D

Andrewf20

68% of the earths land mass is in the northern hemisphere (as seen from space).

Applause

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 :pac:

blastman

Valetta wrote: »

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery, than the celery has in it in the first place.

Probably not true

King George VI

Jeanne Calment and Isaac Brock both lived until the age of 122 years, 164 days. Jeanne (21st February 1875 - 4th August 1997) is confirmed to be the verified oldest person ever to have lived. Isaac (1st March 1787 - 3rd September 1909) allegedly one of the oldest. Coincidence that they lived to the exact same age.

5rtytry56

1044ZU Dad's Mk1 Ford Escort Registration Number. We don't have it any more, but a few Irish vintage car owners have them...fighting an uphill battle with rust in them. (Ford did'nt make them to last that long)

Dublin Bus doubledeckers were once a buff yellow colour.

5rtytry56

In the first Flight Simulator produced for the ZX Spectrum by Psion software, the plane's instrument panel had a compass which had 370 degrees, and not 360.

skipper_G

wendell borton wrote: »

Hangdadj was a code for the original GTA, don't have a clue what it did.

twas HANGTHEDJ = God Mode


My useless info is the nuclear missile cheat for Command & Conquer on PS.
R,D,L,L,D,R,R,D,L,X,U,X

tastyt

Only boys can be born colourblind.

Sudance

That the strange looking holes on the rocks at a local beach,that has people baffled, are rock cores taken by geologists. Even more pointless ...I know where they've posted their results

nelly17

I was going to bleat on about how the word SH1T came from the acronym of Store High In Transit during 17th & 18th Shipping, but on googling my facts to ensure you are not ill-informed I actually discovered that that story is a croc of SH1T.

Sudance

Applause wrote: »

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 :pac:

Pmsl...after I googled it..... cause 01189 rings a bell for me, think it might be the dialling code for Reading in Berkshire UK. Have to satisfy my "why do I know that number so well" feeling now.

Samaris

tastyt wrote: »

Only boys can be born colourblind.

That one's not -quite- true, but it affects boys far more than it does girls, approximately 8% of male children and 0.5% of females. The genetic information for differentiating colour is located on the sex chromosome and it's a recessive issue, so a male only needs to get one faulty gene for it to occur, whereas a female has to get both defective for it to be expressed wrong (i.e. having colour-blindness). Leaving aside partial expression and all that, that's why boys are waay more prone to it than girls, it's just a matter of probability in getting one wrong compared to the genetic info from both parents being faulty.

As a side-note, if a woman has the faulty gene and is colourblind herself, and her husband is too, the children will be colourblind, as they more or less have to get the faulty ones. If the man is and the woman has a good gene and a bad gene, the children have a high chance of colourblindness, and if the man is and the woman has two "good" genes, there is a far lower (but not impossible) chance for boys to be colourblind, but the girls will not be.

I think. Mendalian inheritance anyway!

Sklarker

The guy who landed a small plane in Red Square in the 80's - Mathias Rust. Panagiotis Paraskeyopoulis the guy who won silver in the 1896 olympic javelin (or discus).My best friends wife of 15 years name, my car reg, other stuff i should know etc....not a clue

OU812

The term "Bug" in relation to computer errors was coined today in 1947 when on inspecting a malfunctioning computer, an IBM tech found a moth inside

fiachr_a

The scrolling opening credits from Star Wars was previously done in an old Western from the 1930s called Plainsman.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Christina Aguilera is 5'2" and her birthday is December 18th. Logged those knowledge nuggets about 12 years ago and they really dug in there. I'm also really good at remembering phone numbers for a really long time, including those of people who've emigrated and people who I used to sleep with and who I really shouldn't be calling at 3am

fiachr_a

That old Carlsberg ad with the actors from a war movie: John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews.

mud

Lots of phone numbers from years ago. I met my mate's new girlfriend for the first time and he said "oh mud is a freak for remembering numbers" I then started showing off my 'talent' by reciting his old numbers/car regs/addresses etc. His new lady was so unimpressed that they ended up having a row because "clearly you and mud belong together" :pac: Frickin' hilarious and a lucky escape for him.

blastman

OU812 wrote: »

The term "Bug" in relation to computer errors was coined today in 1947 when on inspecting a malfunctioning computer, an IBM tech found a moth inside

That bug is preserved in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

Applause

Sudance wrote: »

Pmsl...after I googled it..... cause 01189 rings a bell for me, think it might be the dialling code for Reading in Berkshire UK. Have to satisfy my "why do I know that number so well" feeling now.

What makes it worse is that I can't even remember my own mobile phone number. :rolleyes:

fiachr_a

An Post won't process your printed online Irish Water bill because there's no bar code on it.

Chancer3001

How to bless myself in the housa language.

The entire lion king movie off by heart.

That less ferdinand scored the 1,000th AND the 10,000th goal in the premier league.

Sudance

jester77 wrote: »

Showing my age, but there used to be a time when mobile phones didn't exist and we had to use landlines and pay phones. I still have the numbers of all my ex-girlfriends in my head, well probably their mums phone numbers now

Aww dunno why but that sounds sweet.

Sudance

Andrewf20 wrote: »

68% of the earths land mass is in the northern hemisphere (as seen from space).

Now that's a cool thing to know.

Sudance

Applause wrote: »

What makes it worse is that I can't even remember my own mobile phone number. :rolleyes:

And thanks to you I've had 01189 01189...... 01189 running through my head since I read that number..trying to remember the phone number it preceeded!! Grrrrrr

Now I gotta listen to some Mahna Mahna

eisenberg1

fiachr_a wrote: »

That old Carlsberg ad with the actors from a war movie: John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews.

Ice cold in Alex

diomed

The names and year of birth of hundreds of famous thoroughbred horses.
Never ask me a question about horses. If you do, run.

Diomed (1777)

Sudance

diomed wrote: »

The names and year of birth of hundreds of famous thoroughbred horses.
Never ask me a question about horses. If you do, run.

Diomed (1777)

lol.....ok, you win, this has got to be the most pointless piece of information evvver

The Pheasant2

All the cheats codes to Age of Empires II
The evolution levels of any generation 1 Pokemon
Name a year and I can tell you who the Heavyweight champion of the world was at the time (more difficult nowadays as there can be several)
Numerous useless facts concerning the natural world

Timberrrrrrrr

Elephants are the only animal's with 4 knees