Totally Useless Facts

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
-- a New Zealand hill. (See if your spell check has this word)

Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Poriuncula" and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."

Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.

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www.freemaninstitute.com...

Did you know that the only two species on earth who make love for pleasure are Humans and Dolphins...

Yes i did know that. I did not read the website, i alerady knew that.

Good find Nans, I found them quite interesting.

I've heard all of those before and most of them seem true, however I also heard that the duck quack "fact" was, in actuality, an urban legend...Then again, maybe the refuting of the "fact" is the true falsity....who/where can you trust to get your Facts?

Nice page, I liked it too

Chimp's have sex for pleasure also ... Don't know how that could've slipped past that site ....

yeah the Bonnobo monkey(not sure on spelling) definitely does

a ducks quack definately does echo, so that web page might have some other faulty info

hamsters can't vomit

ducks quacks do echo. on many a hunting trip, in the early morning, no wind, it echos like crazy when they're coming in to land on the pond. as far as this stuff being useless, it's always good to have these kind of facts on hand for an icebreaker, or just shooting the bull.