I Honestly Did Not Need to Know That -- Useless Facts

[Mortimer]

Did you know that Pedro Lascuráin Paredes holds the record for the shortest presidential run? He was elected on February the 19th and he was out of the office on February the 19th? He only lasted 45 minutes. The reason for this was due to the fact that a General had overthrown the actual president and Pedro was the next to succeed the previous president. General Huerta wanted the presidential post, so he ordered Pedro to succeed Madero, the previous president, and inmediatly resign and hand the power to Huerta.

[Darcs]

The red wolf, currently critically endangered, was actually declared extinct in 1980, after centuries of over hunting of the animal, many seeing it as a nuisance. Although conservation programs started in the 70's, as well as the animal's tenacious and resilient nature brought it back from extinction in the wild through captivity programs.

[Antarctic Termite]

The Slender Smooth-Hound is fairly small species of deep-water shark in the genus Gollum, of which at least two other species are known but poorly described. The genus was named in the 1970s due to its bottom-dwelling nature and unusually slim frame. It is known to hunt and scavenge opportunistically on carrion, cephalopods, and shellfish in addition to other deepwater fish.
In a trend shared by several other sharks, pups develop in the womb and are fed by a continual supply of younger yolks and embryos once their own yolk runs dry, a process called oophagy. Unlike most other sharks that practice oophagy, the growing gollum shark will store its meals within its own empty yolk so as to live off them continually while waiting for the next younger sibling. This whole process occurs twice per birth, as the female slender smooth-hound possesses a double uterus and will almost always birth twins.

[Sugar and Spite]

•In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.

•It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

•Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

•In France, a five year old child can buy an alcoholic drink in a bar

[Pfroggy1]

Weird Al has constantly asked Prince if he could parody his music and Prince has always declined his offer. It got so bad one time that once when Al and Prince were scheduled to sit in the same row at the AMAs, Prince sent out a letter to everyone saying that if they so much as looked at him, he'd sue.

In Iowa, men with mustaches can't kiss a woman in public.

Hugh Hefner has known where he'll be buried since 1992. That was when he bought the burial plot next to Marilyn Monroe's for a whopping $75,000.

[vancexentan]

Andrew Jackson was the first US president to have an assassination attempt on his life. He promptly almost killed his assassin with his cane.

[Setsukko]

Yep, the title is right.. I honestly did not need to know that. :"3 But it was fun reading through it :D

[Billsomething]

Male barnacles have the largest penis proportional to its body size in the animal kingdom. It can reach up to 50 times the length of the barnacles’ body.

We share 70% of our DNA with slugs

Adolf Hitler was vegetarian and only had one testicle

A man once woke up during his surgery and found out that the doctors had removed his dick by mistake

[ClocktowerEchos]

Jesus isn't some strapping white guy from Europe. He realistically looks more like an arab jew since that's basically what he was before becoming the Messiah of god

Nintendo started out as a card manufacturer in Kyoto, Japan, making Hanafuta (?) cards before becoming the video game giant today.

Mr. New Vegas from Fallout New Vegas is voiced by the real life Mr. Las Vegas

A women once made a bet at a White House dinner that she could get US president Calvin Coolidge (who was notoriously shy and rarely spoke in public) him speak more than two words. His response? "You loose"

[Leysos]

Gerbils will thump their hind legs on the ground when excited or stressed.
Young gerbils are known to thump even when not stressed.
If you have multiple gerbils, they all will join in on thumping behavior.

[ClocktowerEchos]

A group of gerbils is also called a thumping of gerbils

[UrbanEvolution]

Harry S. Truman's name is literally 'S.'

It doesnt stand for anything.

Just 'S.'

[ArenaSnow]

Flamers have only really been useful in Battletech, to my knowledge, in Mechcommander Gold. In the rest of the games, they either do extremely low damage, have heat problems limiting their alleged usefulness, and don't generate enough enemy heat to be practical.

[AlteredTundra]

You want a useless fact huh?

This thread is full of them, so why are you wasting time reading my post when you can be reading the others? Seriously, scroll up and fill your brain with a useless fact because you're not going to get one from this post unless you consider a useless post in a thread about useless facts a useless fact. If that's true, then congrats! You've stumbled upon the most useless fact of them all.