# Useless Facts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074 "2007-01-23T08:36:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/1 "2007-01-23T08:36:18Z")
Stewardesses is the longest word in the English language that is typed by the left hand. A pigs orgasm lasts for approx. 30 mins :eek: Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10th of a calorie A Jiffy is a unit of time for 1/100 of a second ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/2 "2007-01-23T08:46:43Z")
I’d be interested in finding out how YOU found out about how long a porcine orgasm lasts…personal experience there **chowder**?? 😛 And ‘Jiffy’ is bullshit. Whenever anybody tells me they’ll be back in a jiffy, it’s \*\*always \*\*longer than 1/100 of a second. More like ten minutes or one hour really. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/3 "2007-01-23T08:52:26Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] I’d be interested in finding out how YOU found out about how long a porcine orgasm lasts…personal experience there **chowder**?? 😛 And ‘Jiffy’ is bullshit. Whenever anybody tells me they’ll be back in a jiffy, it’s \*\*always \*\*longer than 1/100 of a second. More like ten minutes or one hour really. 😃 [/QUOTE] Personal experience? I say old chap, that’s a bit personal isn’t it…but the answer is no. I read it on some site or other and if it’s true I wanna come back as a pig 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/4 "2007-01-23T09:53:35Z")
These may be correct, but I believe they come from a much longer list of “facts” that are quite wrong. Check Snopes. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/5 "2007-01-23T13:26:26Z")
I’ve seen some programming that used jiffies to coordinate time. Don’t recall if it was Linux or U-Boot. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/6 "2007-01-23T13:44:32Z")
[QUOTE=TJdude825] These may be correct, but I believe they come from a much longer list of “facts” that are quite wrong. Check Snopes. [/QUOTE] Some of them may be wrong but Stewardesses isn’t ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/7 "2007-01-23T14:32:41Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Stewardesses is the longest word in the English language that is typed by the left hand. [/QUOTE] A good thing to keep in mind for when I start my fetish sex chat website. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/8 "2007-01-23T15:00:31Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] A pig’s orgasm lasts for approx. 30 mins :eek: [/QUOTE] It takes a long time for the throbbing to work its way through our corkscrew-shaped wankers, don’t you know! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/9 "2007-01-23T15:09:47Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Some of them may be wrong but Stewardesses isn’t [/QUOTE] Actually, it seems that it is. According to several cites, such as this, there are three words tied for the longest at 14 letters each: AFTERCATARACTS, TESSERADECADES and TETRASTEARATES. That’s two more letters than STEWARDESSES. Now, I’ll grant you these aren’t common words by any stretch, but as far as I can tell they _are_ real words. For example, [aftercataracts](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=3841544&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum): > [@](#): > > A Soemmering ring cataract with opacified lens capsule is presented as a representative case report of aftercataract occurring secondary to perforating trauma of the anterior lens capsule. The various types and causes of **aftercataracts** are discussed as well as their management. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/10 "2007-01-23T15:37:11Z")
Your foot is roughly as long as the space between your inner elbow and inner wrist. (Imagines a buncha Dopers taking their shoes off at their desks to check it out.) Told ya! ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/11 "2007-01-23T15:50:24Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] I read it on some site or other and if it’s true I wanna come back as a pig 😛 [/QUOTE] Thirty minutes sounds nice, but remember, all your partners will smell like pig shit. Literally and that’s not a pleasant smell at all. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/12 "2007-01-23T16:28:46Z")
The largest vat of Jell-o ever prepared was watermelon flavored. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/13 "2007-01-23T16:46:28Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Your foot is roughly as long as the space between your inner elbow and inner wrist. (Imagines a buncha Dopers taking their shoes off at their desks to check it out.) Told ya! [/QUOTE] The circumfrence of your wrist is roughly the same as the distance from your wrist to the tip of your outstretched middle finger. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/14 "2007-01-23T16:47:15Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] A pigs orgasm lasts for approx. 30 mins :eek: [/QUOTE] [Cecil says it doesn’t](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_064b.html). ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/15 "2007-01-23T18:40:11Z")
The longest manned expedition into the Marianas Trench was for 20 minutes (in 1960). d&r… ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/16 "2007-01-23T18:51:00Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] The longest manned expedition into the Marianas Trench was for 20 minutes (in 1960). d&r… [/QUOTE] And today is the anniversary of that event… TRIESTE conducted a series of seven dives including three deep dives, climaxing on January 23, 1960 in a 35,800 foot descent into the “Challenger Deep”. Today is also National Pie Day! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/17 "2007-01-23T18:56:39Z")
[QUOTE=awldune] [Cecil says it doesn’t](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_064b.html). [/QUOTE] Yeah, so what does _he_ know? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/18 "2007-01-23T19:01:03Z")
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts Reindeers like to eat bananas No words in the English language rhyme with: Month Orange Silver Purple ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/19 "2007-01-23T19:11:06Z")
I have six pens on my desk. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074/20 "2007-01-23T19:42:50Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] It takes a long time for the throbbing to work its way through our corkscrew-shaped wankers, don’t you know! [/QUOTE] Stop, I’m getting all hot and bothered. Despite petitions to change it to Violetear, the Colibri (hummingbird) continues to be called the Violet-ear (645 hits vs 35,600 hits). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-facts/389074.md?page=2)