My coworker got annoyed with me knowing random facts, so here are some things we sent her

"CB" (jrcb) 02/26/2020 at 23:19 • Filed to: Can't get an HR complaint if HR was in on it

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- A golf ball has 336 dimples (most commonly, at least)

- There are 5280 feet in a mile

- Most American car horns honk in the key of F

- The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan”

- Bananas are actually a berry, not a fruit

- Barbie’s last name is Roberts

- Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter

I hope you feel useless smarter.

bob and john > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:27

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more useless information:

gravity pulls up
the sky if pink
Peter doesnt do wheelies
Apple makes reasonably priced consumer electronics.


never said it was true.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:28

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Barbara Roberts is the most upper middle class boomer name I’ve ever heard.

And she would absolutely want to be called Barbie. 

CB > bob and john 02/26/2020 at 23:29

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Mods, I would like this man banned, please.

DipodomysDeserti > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:34

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A berry is a fruit.

-biology teacher

Was the rest of Peter Pan true?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:35

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The first rain sensing wipers were on the Citroen SM and used an all mechanical system.

I may be wrong.

DipodomysDeserti > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 02/26/2020 at 23:35

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Babs.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:35

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This, “ The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan””, is not true.

All kidding aside, J. M. Barrie did not invent the name Wendy for his 1904 play Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (the book form of the story, Peter and Wendy, was published in 1911).

But we have absolute proof that there were earlier Wendys, thanks to the just-released 1880 U.S. Census and the 1881 British Census (available here ).

These documents show that the name Wendy, while not common, was indeed used in both the U.S. and Great Britain throughout the 1800s. I had no trouble finding twenty females with the first name Wendy in the United States, the earliest being Wendy Gram of Ohio (born in 1828).

CB > DipodomysDeserti 02/26/2020 at 23:36

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Semantics, smart guy.

(I could really use a biology background, to honest, reading autopsy reports is hard)

Probably not, likely a bad trip.

CB > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 02/26/2020 at 23:37

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Fascinating, good to know.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:37

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Making gender assumptions?

CB > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 02/26/2020 at 23:37

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Just like all easily quoted facts, we never know if they’re true.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 02/26/2020 at 23:38

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Should that be "Wendies?"

CB > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/26/2020 at 23:38

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I unfortunately know this man for real. He’s holding my camera lens hostage.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:38

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Huh?

CB > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/26/2020 at 23:39

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Wha?

Just Jeepin' > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/26/2020 at 23:41

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Nope. You don’t pluralize proper names like you would other English words.

bob and john > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:43

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its a pretty comfy hostage situation...you can have it back any time. just let me know

CB > bob and john 02/26/2020 at 23:43

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All good, I don’t use my Nikon anymore. Besides, I bought a new lens today.

Just Jeepin' > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:43

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There are 5280 feet in a mile

How did I know my recent electric car rental was made in Europe? Well, besides the research I’d done previously, the car (made in France) used yards to express distance in its navigation system once I was closer than a mile to my next turn .

This probably makes a great deal of sense in the metric system (it’s trivial to convert meters to kilometers) but was baffling for me in Imperial.

CB > Just Jeepin' 02/26/2020 at 23:45

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That is absurdly strange.

There are three feet in a yard, at least.

DipodomysDeserti > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:51

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Fortunately in science, semantics isn’t a thing. I’ll leave that for the english majors.

My BS was in Health Sciences, so I can help you out with th ose coroner reports. I think they usually conclude with death.

CB > DipodomysDeserti 02/26/2020 at 23:56

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My background is criminology and sociology, so I’m game to argue about nonsense.

Actually, coroner reports usually start with death. Don’t want to start with a live one.

AestheticsInMotion > CB 02/26/2020 at 23:59

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What I wouldn't give to have a golf ball within handling distance right now. 

CB > AestheticsInMotion 02/27/2020 at 00:04

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I feel like something can be said here, but it shouldn’t be.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:05

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My name is 

CB > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 02/27/2020 at 00:05

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Wha?

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:06

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Who?

DipodomysDeserti > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:06

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My background is criminology and sociology, so I’m game to argue about nonsense.

Read The Bonnot Gang if you ev er want a good case study in criminology and sociology.

CB > DipodomysDeserti 02/27/2020 at 00:08

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Oooh, that sounds fascinating! I’ll have to check it out.

Do I look like a cop? What the heck kind of a cop would drive a lime green Fiesta with black racing stripes?

CB > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 02/27/2020 at 00:09

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Dammit, I was hoping we could get to the Slim Shady bit.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:16

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I’m surprised at the lack of knowledge my younger coworkers have about 90’s pop culture.

Am I the only one who watched Friends and took the cosmopolitan magazine quizzes for laughs?

For Sweden > Just Jeepin' 02/27/2020 at 00:16

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But you should

DipodomysDeserti > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:16

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I’m not a cop and driv e an old scratched up Tundra while rocking a porn ‘ stache. Sometimes the good guys don’t wear white.

For Sweden > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 02/27/2020 at 00:17

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You know she is a hero because she has two first names.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:33

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Three feet in a yard, exactly....not "at least"

CB > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 02/27/2020 at 00:36

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That was meant in the sense of “if nothing else” not a “there could be more”, just to clarify.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:40

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I knew that, just wanted to be pedantic

CB > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 02/27/2020 at 00:41

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I can’t blame you for it.

wafflesnfalafel > CB 02/27/2020 at 00:43

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ha - love it, I’m totally a wonk...

Chinny Raccoon > Just Jeepin' 02/27/2020 at 01:34

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Yards are  used in the U.K. for distances.

pip bip - choose Corrour > CB 02/27/2020 at 01:50

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i didn’t know any of that till now.

thank you

Kiltedpadre > CB 02/27/2020 at 07:29

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Years ago I used to do a “random fact of the week” on an unused dry erase board. Some of the highlights I remember are animal related.

Hippo milk is pink

Almost three percent of Antartic ice is composed of penguin urine

Bats always turn left when they leave caves

My personal favorite

Wombat poop is cube shaped

Just Jeepin' > Chinny Raccoon 02/27/2020 at 07:51

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Interesting. We always refer to fractions of a mile. 

benn454 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/27/2020 at 08:29

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 Well, 1995 was a quarter century ago, now.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > For Sweden 02/27/2020 at 09:07

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There's no such word as "pluralize." And when Bernie gets elected he's going to ban pluralities by executive orders.

MonkeePuzzle > AestheticsInMotion 02/27/2020 at 09:39

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and a permanent pen to mark off the dimples as you count them?

MonkeePuzzle > Kiltedpadre 02/27/2020 at 09:40

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the look of concern on that wombat’s face is appropriate for cube poopers

MonkeePuzzle > CB 02/27/2020 at 09:41

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I grew up in the metric system, and I am still flumoxed by the vast array of non-metric options the US presents me. But I certainly know 5280 ft in a mile because I live in Denver, the “mile high city”, and friggin everything is branded as “5280"here. 5280 bars, 5280 taxi companies, 5280 week where there are deals on fancy restaurants for $52.80. painfukl.

Jim Spanfeller > CB 02/27/2020 at 10:37

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Ooh, I love useless facts! Allow me to join.

The Austin Princess was the first car to have obscured windshield wiper spindles:

The 1972 Mercury Monterey was the first production car with airbags:

The Renault 4 has a longer wheelbase on one side than the other because of its torsion bar suspension:

The 1949-1950 Kaiser Traveler has a fake left rear door: https://oppositelock.kinja.com/why-the-1949-1950-kaiser-travelers-left-rear-door-is-fa-1841315570

Also, the Chinese soft-shelled turtle can pee through its mouth, and the dot on top of a lowercase “i” or “j” is called a “ tittle” .

Jim Spanfeller > Kiltedpadre 02/27/2020 at 10:46

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...

Sadly, most of the obscure animal knowledge I possess is genital-related (thank you, old high school friends I don’t hang out with anymore). Oh, the things I wish I didn’t know. I will never be able to look at some animals the same way again...

Dogsatemypants > CB 02/27/2020 at 12:56

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There is a 36 letter long word that means an irrational fear of large words:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words. Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia.

Kiltedpadre > Jim Spanfeller 02/27/2020 at 12:57

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Thankfully inappropriate/bathroom humor is taken pretty well at my work. Heck, I bought my boss a pooping pooches calendar, and he’s excited that when he comes in on Monday it’ll be a new month. He wants to know what kind of dog he’ll see taking a dump for the next month but doesn’t want to peak and spoil the anticipation.

Jim Spanfeller > Kiltedpadre 02/27/2020 at 13:11

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Kangaroos often have two upside-down penises. Echidnas have four-pronged penises. Sea slugs have penises that break off after mating, and duck penises are a foot long, corkscrew-shaped, and BARBED. Cats also have barbed penises, which is why they don’t like to mate. And Walruses have an actual bone in their penises, giving them the largest penis relative to body size in the animal kingdom. Some Chinese luxury cars have whale penis-leather interiors...

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