The first entry point of the Vietnamese onto American territory(not counting embassies) after the fall of Saigon was in Orote Point, Guam, a U.S. Trust Territory, where a tent city was built on the site of an abandoned airstrip, adjacent to a graveyard, that had long been used as a flea market on weekends by the local populace.

The lyrics to Billie Holiday's anti-lynching song, "Strange Fruit," were written by Abel Meeropol, a white Jewish public school teacher from New York City who would later adopt the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after their execution.

One of the key figures driving the blacklist era was a New York grocer named Laurence Johnson, a leader in the printing of blacklists, and he ran matters of who was on or off his blacklists as a for-profit business, reportedly open to bribes by the accused, which he is also reported to have solicited.

The words "consider" and "disaster" are both throwbacks to astrology and superstition. The first means "with the stars" and the second means "against the stars"...and you can see what choice they recommend you take.

50% of female polar bears also have a penis.

If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If he was wounded in battle, only one leg will be in the air.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

loooool

If that's true, you're doing celery wrong.

the twinkling you see in stars actually has nothing to do with the star itself, but is an effect of viewing the star through earths atmosphere...thats why stars closer to the horizon twinkle more that stars at the zenith...and why stars and objects are best viewed/photographed through a telescope when they are high in the sky...

How many cuticles are on each camel's toe?

bring on the useless universe stuffs...

The words LASER, RADAR, and RAP (as in rap sheet) are all anacronyms.

Snopes says this one is statued horse****.

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

booooo

I knew a girl who used to rub her finger across here, sort of nervous
habit. A medical friend of mine told me a different name for it.
Trying to be clever I asked her why was she always playing with her
perineum, got slapped for my effort.

Pointless knowledge: Polar Bears live at the north pole and
Penguins at the south pole.

This one comes from the Encyclopedia Brown books I used to read as a kid.

Most men shake out matchsticks once lit, most women blow them out.

As a result of knowing this useless bit of information, I always now make sure to shake out matches so as not to be feminine.

I'm positive that my countless hours watching Science/Discovery/other nerd channels have resulted in a ****ton of useless space knowledge (since that's about all I watch) but **** me if I can remember any.

There was a time in American culture when comedians used intelligence, wit and double entendres instead of ghetto language to ignite their audiences.

Awesome. The only thing I remember from Encyclopedia Brown is that no one would call it the First Battle of Bull Run until at the very least the Second Battle of Bull Run, so you know its a fake.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.

During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bomb.

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

Well, in a way yes. However, the word used most often to describe these words is "acronym." "Anachronym" is a portmanteau word (first used by Lewis Carrol); that is, the word "anachronym" is a combination of "achronym" and "anachronism." But, it describes effectively that idea that the origin of these words has been lost.

BTW, "radar" is also a palindrome.

Conundrum is a fabricated word.
During the Elizabethan Era it was a fashionable parlor game to to concoct faux Latin words. This one stuck around.

[quote=Wave Length;9594362]I knew a girl who used to rub her finger across here, sort of nervous
habit. A medical friend of mine told me a different name for it.
Trying to be clever I asked her why was she always playing with her
perineum, got slapped for my effort.

Pointless knowledge: Polar Bears live at the north pole and
Penguins at the south pole.[/quote]

Actually wrong ....Polar Bears live in the North and closer to the pole than most of us but not close. Hundreds of miles away. The Bears need open ice to hunt for seals and there is none at the pole.

Penguins live in the south but not within 100s of miles of the south pole. Only two species live in Antartica and most species live in other places such as S. America, Georgia Island...etc.

Arent they all?