I know what noise a faulty 1920’s style “Death ray” makes… but that’s fairly common knowledge around here.
The longest word that can be typed with the left hand only is “stewardesses”
Kangaroo got its name the same way as Yucatan. The first Europeans asked the natives “what’s the name of that thing jumping around” and the natives answered “kangaroo” meaing - you guessed it - “I don’t understand you.”
“It’s legal to have nitrous oxide for use as a recreational drug (or to sell as a legal recreational drug), but it’s illegal to have it for use in your car. (USA).”
No.
Most rebate programs for product purchases have redemption rates under 3% and virtually none exceed 5% (this excludes auto dealer rebates, which are really handled at the dealer as direct discounts).
It makes me wonder what the breakage rate is on gift certificates and gift cards. My guess is that it exceeds 20%.
How do I know? Business experience.
Not true, unless you have your hands in the “home row” position.
I type with just my left hand sometimes and it has grown to be quite an impressed upon skill by many.
As for interesting facts…
It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off
Play with that one kids 
Anti-tobacco fanatics have been lying to us for years about the “danger of second-hand smoking”
For example, http://193.78.190.200/43/1057.pdf but there are plenty more available…
I’ve told you this before, but it bears repeating:
Your foot is as big as the space between your elbow and wrist.
And I’m not kidding.
Also, the length from your arm span, from fingertip to fingertip is the same as your height.
Hmm, I feel I should contribute to this as well, for some reason…
Hydrocortisone, I knew that as well, perhaps you are also familiar with the theory that a missile that is just about to destroy the spaceship you are traveling in could turn into a whale that will ponder its brief existence as it smashes to the surface of Magrathea.
Springbok, welcome to the SDMB and beware of the leopard.
As for the most interesting things I know:
The square root of 2 is 1.414213562373
The square root of 3 is 1.73205080756
(I memorized those in 6th and 7th grade, but it came in handy like you wouldn’t believe in Geometry)
The stranger, and generally more useful, bits and pieces of things I know are things I’ve picked up from reading the Straight Dope. I swear I learned more here than I did in the entirety of my sophomore year in highschool.
That’s correct, Bakhesh. Also, your hand is about the same height as your face.
Alex trebeck is from outer space and is secretly in control of the entire world.
The Historical Museum in Alturas, CA has one of the largest arrowhead, projectile point, and biface collections in the world - more than 50K. It is a mighty impressive collection in a tiny little place.
The 1993 vintage of Chateau Mouton Rothschild was banned from sale by the BATF.
I know that the geographic center of Alabama is in the Ladies Restroom of the Chilton County Courthouse in Clanton, Alabama.
Top that!
Yeah, it goes, “WHOOSH!”
As for my interesting tidbit, there is a layer of metallic hydrogen surrounding the core of Jupiter, right under the liquid hydrogen ocean.
Female rabbits don’t have heat cycles - they ovulate when they have sex - therefore they get pregnant every time they have sex. (provided they are old enough and not already pregnant.)
I know that the Winchester Mystery House has 950 doors but only 467 doorways, and only 160 rooms.
John Tyler’s youngest daughter, Pearl, died in 1947. That’s more than 100 years after her father was President of the United States.
Nearly all of the atoms in your body with atomic numbers 2 to 26 (He to Fe) were created in the core of a star as it ran out of nuclear fuel and began burning byproducts.
All of the atoms in your body with atomic numbers higher than 27 (Fe) were created in supernovae… when the star exploded in one of the most violent events in the universe, and fused smaller atoms together. The results were spewed out as dust and gas, and later coalesced into the Earth.
Except for some of the Hydrogen, every atom in your body was once inside a star.
Whups! 27 is Cobalt (Co)!
:smack: