Useless Knowledge

@bethed (277)
United States
December 31, 2009 11:09am CST
Useless knowledge is the stuff that you know but knowing that stuff will not help u in anyway!!! Not even to impress your friends. Here are some prime examples!! 1. The microwave was invented when a man walked by a radar and his choclate bar melted. 2. The winter of 1932 was so cold Niagra Falls froze solid. 3.If you pour alchol on a scorpion it will sting it self to death. So do any of you have any useless knowledge you would like to share!!!
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• United States
31 Dec 09
the eastern most point in rhode island is named westerly. "slime" the kid's toy,will eat varnish off antiques (don't ask how i know this). coca cola will dissolve nails if you let it sit long enough. ginger ale will clean battery terminals on car batteries. "tom" on "tom and jerry" cartoon used to be called "jasper".
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@bethed (277)
• United States
1 Jan 10
That is really cool! I would love to hear the story about the varnish!!!Thanks
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• United States
2 Jan 10
well the thing is-the original slime that first came out in the '70's,was much stronger than what they sell now (if they do still sell it),but kids were eating it,putting it in their hair and getting it stuck (i don't know how they thought of that,never occured to me to do so),and some things dissolved in it if you left it long enough. where my bro and i used to play in my grandma's house,she had this huge antique table.as we were trying to figure out exactly what to do with this sticky mess, one of us decided to dump it out onto the table.as we pulled it back up,we noticed a huge blonde spot on the wood (uh oh)...and the slime was no longer so sticky. something about whatever it was made of ate the finish right off. being rotten kids,that table now has several blonde spots. funny thing is no one ever said anything about it..
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@bethed (277)
• United States
3 Jan 10
That was before the era of recalls and warnings. That is too funny!!! It is a wonder any of us survived the stuff they made us to play with. Thanks for the story!! It was definitly good for a laugh!!