Random Useless Facts Thread

Coccinellidaephobia is the fear of ladybugs, with the most famous depiction of it being the character Twilight Sparkle in the animated series My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.

Benjamin Franklin and former US president John Adams once had to sleep in the same bed together in an inn, after the inn ran out of bedrooms.
 
Both of them spent the whole night arguing about the temperature of the room and if they should leave the window open or not.

The world’s first TV commercial was an ad for Bulova watches in 1941.

Coca-Cola was invented by a pharmacist in Atlanta.

The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1.

Lamborghini cars were a result of a tractor company owner being insulted by the founder of Ferrari.

The silk of some spider webs are stronger than steel

A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

Derpibooru user Badumsquish is mentioned by name on the TVTropes page “Chest of Medals,” because of the number of badges he has (19, specifically).

In Cleveland, Ohio, it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

@SuperPinkiePie64  
Cats must be always breaking the law… Don’t they?

Former President Barack Obama is only half-black. His mom was white.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

A powerful Category 5 Hurricane is being powered with an energy equivalent of more than 500,000 atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima.

The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!

The horned lizard can squirt blood from its eyes to ward off predators

Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap.

Brazil nuts are mildly radioactive

@ILoveMyoozik  
Brazil is named after the Brazil nut.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

In 2007, The Balearic Islands, a group of islands off the coast of the Iberian Peninsuala, extended its full legal rights to apes.

Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).

The volume of the Earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

The Beagle Boys in German (‘Panzerknacker’) were named after a series of Nazi German planes. When using dynamite they resort to what they call the ‘compressed load’ which was another Nazi term used for coupling several grenade heads together for ‘cracking the tanks’ (Panzerknacker means ‘tank crackers’)

King George I could not speak English!