The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

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A bullet fired from the 7.62 x 51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.

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New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University.

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Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.

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Australian Rules Football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.

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Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World

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Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.

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Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)

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Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

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Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because their local enemies, Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their stadium. Therefore Liverpool took over at the stadium (Anfield) and became England's top soccer team ever.

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General Interest :

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Only about 5% of the salt produced end up on the dinner table. The rest is used for packing meat, building roads, feeding livestock, tanning leather, and manufacturing glass, soap, ash and washing compounds

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The yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as a weapon for hunting.

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All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.

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Blimp useless facts.

There are fourteen blimps in the world.

Ten of the fourteen blimps are in the United States.

The biggest existing blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.