Post an obscure and pointless fact

[Londonboy]

The more obscure and pointless to know the better, useful information will be frowned upon.
Urban myths and made-up stuff allowable, if posted in parenthesis, one fact per post please.

To kick off.

U.S General George S Patton represented the U.S.A at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, finishing 5th in the Modern Pentathlon.

 

[HeavyBarrel]

I’ve heard there are more privately owned tigers in the state of Texas than in the wild.....

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

You gain 5.9 calories from licking a stamp.

 

[Quickdraw]

That little plastic thing on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.

 

[BigStar]

Flushes beat a full house in short deck poker.

 

[Londonboy]

Flushes beat a full house in short deck poker.

That's useful to know, in some circumstances it could be vital to know.

 

[DallasEast]

Aconcagua is the highest mountain in South America, standing at 22,829 feet. Asia's Mount Everest stands just over 29,000 feet. Together, both continents own two of the highest mountain peaks in the world.

Little known fact: There are over a hundred mountains standing shorter than Everest but are taller than Aconcagua, resting primarily in Asia.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

The little pulpy knobs on raspberries are known as "druplets".

 

[Reverend Conehead]

The King of Assyria from 745 to 727 BC was named Tiglath-Pilaser III.

 

[DallasEast]

Cowbirds lay their eggs in other birds' nests.

Little known fact: If other birds discover the cowbird's egg and remove it from their nest, the mother cowbirds sometimes take their revenge and destroy the other birds' eggs.

 

[DallasEast]

Planets orbit their stars.

Little known fact: All planets in our solar system orbit the Sun except Jupiter.

 

[GMO415]

For every year you work a graveyard shift, it's one month of your life taken away.

 

[Runwildboys]

That little plastic thing on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.

Ooh, not obscure. Loss of ten points.

 

[Runwildboys]

Planets orbit their stars.

Little known fact: All planets in our solar system orbit the Sun except Jupiter.

Then why is a Jupiter Year 12 years?

 

[DallasEast]

Then why is a Jupiter Year 12 years?

 

[Londonboy]

Dermatoglyphics and uncopyrightable are tied (15) as the longest words in the English language with no repeated letters.

 

[Runwildboys]

Semantics, but still a good one!

 

[Londonboy]

Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich was a fully qualified Footie referee.

 

[Runwildboys]

(The Mars Rover has no trunk, and that's why there's no spare tire.)

 

[DallasEast]

Semantics, but still a good one!

I guess the fair answer would be Jupiter orbits the barycenter every 12 years. The Sun is jealous. It orbits the same barycenter about the same length of time.