Pointless fact of the day

[Ray Stafford]

I'll start.

When James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock was murdered in a Deadwood saloon in 1876, the poker hand he was holding was reputedly two pairs - black aces and black eights, known since the 1920s (nearly 50 years later) as the dead man's hand. History does not record the 5th card.

However, several other combinations of cards have also held that nick-name, including the full houses Jacks and tens and Jacks and sevens. Some of these were recorded between 1876 and the appearance of the Wild Bill legend in the twenties.

Your turn.

The fact must be a) vaguely interesting and b) utterly pointless. Conveying useful information on this thread is very poor form old boy, very poor form.

Toodle pip.

 

[gasmanrob]

When I was living at the out laws no one used to speak at meal times so I decided to start the useless fact of the day. Everyone had to come up with a true but useless fact if you didn't then you got dishwasher duty.

 

[kris]

In 1386 a pig was hanged and executed for the murder of a child.

 

[gasmanrob]

Al Capones business card said he was a used furniture dealer

 

[kris]

When we are born were born with 300 bones and when we die we have only 206.

 

[julesverne]

Coca cola would be green if colour wasn't added to it.

 

[SimonG]

The residents of Hartlepool hung a monkey as they thought it was a French spy in Napoleonic times.

 

[gasmanrob]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

uses every letter of the alphabet

 

[SimonG]

If you count out the letters from numbers starting at 1, you would get to 1 thousand before saying 'a'.

 

[SimonG]

All polar bears are left handed.

 

[bright spark]

In the US more people are killed by storms/tornadoes with women's names than men's names. They reckon that the yanks take the 1's with ladies names less serious. Don't know how true that is but nothing would surprise me

 

[Ray Stafford]

Peter the Great, Tsar of all the Russians, visited both Holland and England "incognito" in the 1690s - pretending to be a humble shipwright.

He was humoured by both states, who officially pretended to ignore him, whilst actually providing bodyguards, liaison officers etc.

 

[SimonG]

Bats alwayscturn left when leaving a cave.

 

[kris]

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand,,

 

[kris]

We have alot of useless things inside our heads

 

[Ray Stafford]

Bookkeeper is the only word (along with its derivatives like bookkeeping) in the English language with three successive pairs of double letters.

 

[Ray Stafford]

We have alot of useless things inside our heads

I predict that this thread will run and run.

 

[kris]

What i wrote was my fact , yours too ray hehe

 

[kris]

Theres no word in the english dictionary that rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

 

[Ray Stafford]

the longest palindrome in the English language is "rotavator"

 

[kris]

In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.

 

[Dotty]

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

 

[villa_tom]

Pablo Escobar spent $2500 a month on elastic bands just to hold his money together

 

[Dotty]

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes

 

[Dotty]

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.