Random Useless Facts Thread

One of the most notorious conventions in history was Rainfurrest 2015. A furry convention based out of Seattle, Washington, the convention descended into chaos instantly.
 
Incidents included toilets becoming clogged and flooding the bathrooms, the smoke alarm getting taken out of the bedrooms leading to the fire department getting called, heavy drug and alcohol use which led to hospitalizations, the hot tub and pool getting closed halfway through the event, the guests wearing explicit suits and fetish gear in public, diapers (oftentimes used) and other garbage getting thrown everywhere from the streets to other people’s cars, and trashing the hotel the guests stayed in.
 
It got so bad that the Hilton Hotel, which hosted the event, threatened to cancel the convention and were so horrified by how it turned out that they denied the financial compensation they were offered by the con staff for damages. Word spread towards the other big chain hotels and they themselves refused to host the 2016 iteration, leading to its cancellation. After another cancellation a year later, Rainfurrest was put down and permanently retired.

Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) was the best selling album in the United States until Michael Jackson’s death in 2009. In August 2018, it regained the title of the U.S.’s biggest-selling album, with a 38× Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.
 
Thriller by Michael Jackson was the first album to reach 30x platinum.

According to USA Today, Bud Light is currently the best selling beer in America.

More people are familiar with the Theme Song from the movie Shaft then they are the actual movie.

To date there no brushable toys of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, with their Cutie Marks stamped on.

The flag raised over the ruins of the World Trade Center after 9/11 was stolen from a nearby yacht.

in 2003, Marvel was successfully able to argue in court that the X-Men toys were not humans, as they had “non-human features”. THis was because toy laws would say that there was a difference between “Dolls” (had humanoid features), and “Toys” (Had non-human features/ were “nonhuman creatures), and that Dolls are taxed more then Toys.
 
Marvel was able to convince the court that the X-Men toys were not Dolls becuase they were “nonhuman creatures”, and thus had them be labelled as Toys instead, and get cheaper taxes.
 
Even though the whole point of the X-Men franchise was that they still should be treated like humans even if they do have powers and nonhuman features

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The Maori name for Yellow-Eyed Penguins means “Noise Shouter”

World War One ended on the Eleventh hour of the Eleventh day of the Eleventh month of 1918. It is also the day an armistice was signed by the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
After lasting 225 weeks, and today being 100 years exactly from that day.

The last French Soldier to die in the First World War was killed on his way to delivering a message of celebration to his fellow soldiers.

During WWI, the Turks slaughtered approximately 1.5 million Armenians. This act of genocide would later attract the attention of Hitler and was partly responsible for sowing the seeds of the Holocaust.

Armistice for World War 1 was signed on November 11, 1918, ending the fighting. However, the actual end of the war was during the Paris Peace Conference on January 18, 1919, where the Treaty of Versailles was presented and signed on June 28 of that year, not taking effect until January 10, 1920.

There is a rumour that when American Actress Pia Zadora (An actress known for not being very good at acting and coming across as very dull in her performances) was playing the role of Anne Frank in a theatre production about her life, her performance was so bad, that during a scene where Nazi officers entered her house to try and find her, the audience actually yelled out the location she was currently hiding.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left different objects behind on the Moon. Among these was the cosmonaut medal of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go to space.

In the 2012 animated version of the Dr Seuss book “The Lorax”, Danny DeVito not only voices the Lorax in the English dubof the film, but also voices him in the Italian, Mexican Spanish, European Spanish, German, and Russian dubs of the film as well.

Stan Lee served in World War II as one of the nine soldiers in the army with the official designation of “Playwright”. One of the other nine soldiers was “Dr. Seuss”.

There is an estimated 15 million Scientologists worldwide. Famous members include movie star Tom Cruise, movie star/singer John Travolta, singer Beck, TV actor Jason Lee, and voice actress Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Isaac Hayes, who was the voice of Chef on South Park, was also a Scientologist. He quit the show after it made fun of the cult religion.

The 27 Club/Club 27, refers to the list and phenomenon of Musicians and Actors, who have died at the young age of 27.
 
 
Some of the people on this list are Kurt Cobain (Singer and founder of the Grunge band Nervana), Jimi Hendrix (Singer), Jim Morrison (Singer for the band The Doors), Pete de Freitas (Drummer for the band Echo and the Bunnymen), Jonathan Brandis (Actor who played Bill in the IT tv miniseries), Amy Winehouse (Singer), and Anton Yelchin (Actor who played Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek films)

Google’s unofficial motto is “Don’t Be Evil”

The oldest person that has ever lived was a French woman named Jeanne Calment who lived for 122 years. (1875-1997)

My dog loves the taste of smelly feet.

One of the most controversial and heavily debated articles in Wookipedia (the Star Wars wiki), is about Breasts, and if the article should even exist in the first place

With each few seconds, a Gamma-Ray Burst is releasing far more energy than the Sun releases in it’s whole lifetime.