The usless knowledge thread:

[Inked Photography]

Max Q:
In aerospace engineering, max Q is the point of maximum dynamic pressure, the point at which aerodynamic stress on a spacecraft in atmospheric flight is maximized.

[ah-photography]

Almost:
the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

[cman78]

In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second.

[ah-photography]

Originally Posted by cman78

In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second.

African or European swallow?

[Inked Photography]

Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands. (one letter at a time)

[Ellbee99]

Originally Posted by ah-photography

African or European swallow?

layden or unlayden swallow?


"You're not ride a horse you have two coconuts and your banging them together!"

[Lee4145]

Originally Posted by Ellbee99

layden or unlayden swallow?


"You're not ride a horse you have two coconuts and your banging them together!"

lol. That was my first thought.

"How do you know so much about Swallows?"

[Ellbee99]

Originally Posted by Lee4145

lol. That was my first thought.

"How do you know so much about Swallows?"

lol brilliant minds think alike! lol

[Morgan Starr]

Pete Ustinov was David Nivens batman durning WWII.

A batman's duties often include:

• acting as a "runner" to convey orders from the officer to subordinates
• maintaining the officer's uniform and personal equipment as a valet
• driving the officer's vehicle, sometimes under combat conditions
• acting as the officer's bodyguard in combat
• other miscellaneous tasks the officer does not have time or inclination to do

The action of serving as a batman was referred to as "batting". In armies where officers typically came from the upper class, it was not unusual for a former batman to follow the officer into later civilian life as a domestic servant.

[mcbit]

Alaska is the most Northerly, Easterly & Westerly state in the US

[nikimoto]

It's illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.


(guess I'll have to cross that one off my list then...)

[caryj]

In Kentucky (I think), it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same length as your foot.

Your wingspan is approximately the same as your height.

Your eyes are the same size from the time you are born until you die, but your ears and nose never stops growing.

[firefoto]

The "Crack" made by a bull whip is the tip of the whip breaking the sound barrier.

[Inked Photography]

It is illegal in Oklahoma to perform "fellatio".

[sean_buerger]

"...It is illegal in Oklahoma to perform "fellatio"..."

Doesn't sound like a fun place at all! Cheers, Sean.

[Danlphot]

A Coke (Pepsi, soda, pop, sodie pop, etc.) can costs more to make than the Coke inside it.