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If you know any fact that is useless and is not really needed to known, about anything, put it on this thread.(I'm bored and need to do someting)

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

apples used to be called napples

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 November 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Really.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

kant built himself a machine that puts on his socks for him when he wakes up.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I fell asleep in my scool clothes.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I took one semester (I think) of violin lessons.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Useless Information In The Fangirl Subcategory:

Nick Rhodes once had a cat named Yag. Yes, Y-a-g.

Simon LeBon's mother lives in Florida. (His parents are divorced.)

Andy Taylor's wife is named Tracey, and his eldest son is 18.

The song "A Matter of Feeling", off the album Notorious, was inspired by Roger Taylor and his inability to handle fame and success.

John Taylor's real first name is Nigel.

The original Duran lineup included Stephen Duffy on lead vocals. Hence, a true "original Duran reunion" would dispatch with SLB, Andy, and Roger, and include Stephen and Simon Colley.

Warren Cuccurullo was a vegan for many years for health reasons. He still wore leather, in other words. Lots of leather.

And thus ends your fangirl-provided session of useless information. ;)

― Pancakes For Breakfast! (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to have two cats. They were Blue and Elisa.

One of my friends called her sister abnormal because "abnormal" was a vocab word and we had to write sentences with our vocab words.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

is that true mark?
the stereotypical dublin fruit seller pronounces it "napples"

― robin (robin), Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Alexander the Great is the world's most famous left-handed epileptic homosexual Albanian midget.
(Nicked from Q.I.)

― Pete S, Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm left handed.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

He has competition, then!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

How so?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja i have your medal here.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I am part Albanian. Also Irish,(like Ned) and Phillippiono.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Medal for what?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm listening to Bleach right now.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I have stopped watching all cartoons except for Ths Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Futurama.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Negitive Creep" is the only Nirvana song that IS A FADE OUT.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a building called Portcullis House opposite the houses of parliament in London that houses MP's offices. The exterior cladding cost soooo much (cos it's bomb proof and made of copper) that it would have been cheaper to clad it in 7 series BMWs.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Monday, 24 November 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

JFK's assassin acted alone

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

As a follow-on to those Duran Duran facts, my band The Cloud Minders used to do a rather fabulous version of the song "A matter of feeling", as mentioned above. I think I've still got a tape of it somewhere. Couldn't play it now if you asked me.

One of my cats was killed on my wedding day. She took offence to my sister-in-law feeding her instead of me or my wife, ran off in a sulk and got hit by a car. But then, as my wife says, what do you expect of a cat who was named after a Field Mice album? (Like that was the cat's fault?)

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a pisces.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1073246,00.html

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

JFK is alive and well. He's living on the same South Pacific island as Tupac, Elvis and Marilyn.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Marijuana contains anti-oxidants and is an effective agent for prevention of skin cancer.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It also gets you well battered.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Or should that be "proper battered"? Possibly. Unless you live in Southport and can only get hold of dodgy rocky. Then it gets you "pleasantly wooly".

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never liked anything by Nirvana ever.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The name of the house I used to live in, "Sonlea", comes from the last three letters of my grandfathers surname, Dobson, and the first three (well, all) of my grandmothers, Lea.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 November 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 November 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a vestigial growth between my legs.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That place between your uppen lip and your nose it's called "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi."

― Miggie (Miggie), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The two surviving Beatles, Paul and Ringo, never stood or sat beside each other in any cover picture on any Beatles album.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Organic vanilla soy ice cream tastes like frosting.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

porcupines are rodents (why didn't I know this before today?)

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can spread my toes further apart than anyone else ever.

― ac, Friday, 28 November 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My pinkies are bent at the top. (the joint at the top)

― Aja (aja), Friday, 28 November 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

bent in which direction?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's both hands and they're bent inward I guess. (toward the ring finger)

― Aja (aja), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i tht by pinky you meant yr toes! i tht they might point upwards

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

No. Some people think it's "gross" and others think it's "cool".

― Aja (aja), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i am undecided

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

About what?

― Aja (aja), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

dalmatians are born all white. (i got this from a snapple bottle cap.)

― youn, Friday, 28 November 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The most albino children in a family is three. (got it out of the Guiness World Records book)

― Aja (aja), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman.

― …, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The two surviving Beatles, Paul and Ringo, never stood or sat beside each other in any cover picture on any Beatles album.
-- Fred Nerk (bjhaus200...), November 24th, 2003.

Apart from Abbey Road, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Sgt Pepper, With/Meet the Beatles, Help, Rubber Soul, ......

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The exterior cladding on the MP's office building opposite the Houses of Parliament in London ('Portcullis House') cost so much that it would have been cheaper to clad the whole building in 7 series BMWs.

― hmmmmm, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

ILXor.com currently has 3628 users.

― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 18 July 2013 22:28 (twelve years ago)

This thread was started on the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination. (Two JFK references above, but neither one points out this very useless fact.)

― clemenza, Thursday, 18 July 2013 23:18 (twelve years ago)

Hitler also published Mein Kampf on 18 July, 1925.

― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 18 July 2013 23:20 (twelve years ago)

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