Showing posts with label useless knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label useless knowledge. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2009

More Useless Knowledge

According to the last bit of "Useless Knowledge" (that little window on the right-hand side of the screen) that I saw:
Scientific researchers say promiscuous species of monkeys appear to have
stronger immune systems than less sexually active ones.
We share, like, a whole lot of our DNA with monkeys, so, this is permission, right? Helps us fight off that pesky swine flu. Yeah, that's it.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Useless knowledge

Over on the right-hand side of this page, if you scroll down a bit, there is a box titled "Useless Knowledge". It has some random bits of interesting trivia which change each time you refresh the page. I liked the last one I saw. What do you call a group of animals?

A shrewdness of apes
A troop of baboons
A shoal of bass
A sleuth or sloth of bears
A sounder of boars
An army of caterpillars
A clowder or clutter of cats
A brood or peep of chickens
A clutch or chattering of chicks

A few of those have a strange poetry about them, but the others I wonder, "What were they smoking when they thought of that?"