# Worse than useless "facts"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167 "2016-12-19T18:40:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/21 "2016-12-22T14:09:21Z")
That woodpeckers don’t get headaches. Did a control group of forceful peckers self report?
People headaches: “Wow, this tension headache is killin’ me! I wonder if chewing on that willow tree over yonder would help?”
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/22 "2016-12-22T15:40:21Z")
> [@cwthree](#):
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> For most people, the instinct is to turn \*out \*of the spin. That is, if the car is spinning counterclockwise (front end of the car is rotating toward the driver’s left), most drivers will turn the wheel clockwise because that’s how you would restore the car to direct forward motion after a \*normal \*left turn.
I’d like to see evidence that “most people” do this.
My instinctive reaction has always been to turn the wheel counterclockwise (into the spin) in such circumstances. There is no period of deliberation involved, just "AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!:
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### Author:  [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/23 "2016-12-22T18:18:09Z")
> [@cwthree](#):
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> For most people, the instinct is to turn \*out \*of the spin. That is, if the car is spinning counterclockwise (front end of the car is rotating toward the driver’s left), most drivers will turn the wheel clockwise because that’s how you would restore the car to direct forward motion after a \*normal \*left turn.
You’ve totally lost me here - the above describes what you _should_ do. I’ve always heard that as “turn into the skid”, and to me that has always come naturally, but I thought the point of the advice was most people are naturally inclined to turn the other way, so they need to be told this.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/24 "2016-12-22T18:58:08Z")
> [@Filbert](#):
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> I always wondered that with fugu- the pufferfish that’re deadly unless prepared juuust right. “Nonono, I’m sure part of it’s edible, just ignore that guy paralysed over there, I reckon I know what I did wrong!”
I think that the way this came about was that the smallest guy in the tribe carried a piece of fish about, saying, “These are so yummy!” until a big guy takes it from him.
If the big guy drops dead, the little guy marks that piece off on his list, and begins carrying the next one about, declaring how yummy it is. He ended up with a list of what parts of the fish can be eaten in privacy.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/25 "2016-12-22T18:59:17Z")
> [@mixdenny](#):
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> Way back when we were training to handle hydrazine, the course material included the statement that “a single drop on the skin of a laboratory animal will cause death within seconds”.
Probably calculated by the body weight of some poor bastard who spilled some on himself.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/26 "2016-12-22T21:56:14Z")
This reminds me of a Daniel Tosh bit where he wants to write Snapple facts that are true, but ridiculous.
“Babies aren’t dishwasher safe”.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/27 "2016-12-23T19:42:19Z")
How would a baby damage a dishwasher?
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/28 "2016-12-23T22:09:10Z")
> [@Filbert](#):
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> I always wondered that with fugu- the pufferfish that’re deadly unless prepared juuust right. “Nonono, I’m sure part of it’s edible, just ignore that guy paralysed over there, I reckon I know what I did wrong!”
That’s easy. I grew up eating the American version (not quite as deadly, but poisonous). People would catch them and toss the liver (where the poison is); it’s perfectly fine. But one day someone ate the liver and his survivors noted the problem.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-useless-facts/775167/29 "2016-12-24T00:32:48Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> How would a baby damage a dishwasher?
You want blood, poop and guts all over your dishes?
:dubious:
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